Harper government says no to abortion!

The Stephan Harper government really pisses me off. It's proven fact that when abortions are not legalized and when there are no safe means of carrying out an abortion, people will seek alternative support from unregulated and unauthorized abortion clinics. As a consequence, many women are put at serious risk of fatal injury when the procedure isn't carried out correctly. It is similar to the war on drugs... when you ban something there is an underground market that comes as a result. No matter what, people will do it. Thus we should try to ensure when it is done, it is performed safely.

Originally Posted by TheStar

The Conservative government has declared that it will not support foreign-aid projects that include abortion.

The Harper government should be supporting foreign abortion clinics, if not for a woman's right to her own body, then for their own safety at least. No doubt there are many women that would rather chance sticking a coat hanger between their legs instead of having another child.

Agreed, this is disgraceful and an international stain on Canada's reputation.

This is kind of amusing. This sort of fluff is like the harper government stating they don't support alien encounters...who the hell cares?

It's their purogative.

90% of foreign aid granted to women with respect to child abortion is and has always been done through charity organizations.

Charities like CARE Canada, Plan Canada, RESULTS Canada, Save the Children Canada, UNICEF Canada and World Vision Canada.

I find it kind of funny that Harper's government even bothers to throw their hat in the discussion anywhere(Esp considering his history of choking media attention on similar discussions) but I understand deciding against backing the effort with public funding from a political standpoint.

Fuck the bleeding hearts. We're already digging our own graves just trying to provide adequate housing and health care for our own citizens.

If you give a shit about these people, stop bitching about the government that is looking out for your interests and get involved in groups that are helping them.

This is a self help system here people. Get off the god damn side lines.

Originally Posted by Demojen

This is kind of amusing. This sort of fluff is like the harper government stating they don't support alien encounters...who the hell cares?

It's their purogative.

90% of foreign aid granted to women with respect to child abortion is and has always been done through charity organizations.

It's the principle of the matter, one which the conservatives have been very hypocritical about. They are essentially saying that the Canadian government supports safe abortions in our country but not the rest of the world. Good enough for us, but not the rest of the world. The conservatives are pushing their ideological viewpoints rather than thinking about the safety of women.

Seventy thousand woman die each year world wide from unsafe abortions. It's extremely hypocritical for the Conservative government to say yes here but no around the globe... talk about a double standard.

However, this is just part of the bigger picture - since the Conservatives have formed government, womens rights groups have gone down the toilet. As Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green party has said, the Conservative government funds band-aid solutions to gender inequalities and social issues rather than funding research and groups that seek to resolve the primary cause in the first place.

A friend of mine posted this on her FB wall, I'm waiting for her to give me the source but just have a glance at what she posted. If it is true (which I think it is) then it is shocking... however the the list is a lot longer and this is just the tip of the iceberg:

"Harper and Patrck,
Why haven't you CONs defunded this stuff?

Chakam School of the Bible Inc.: $357,146
Wycliffe Bible Translators: $495,600... See More
Spinach Based Cosmetics: $281,586
Horse Canada Magazine: $24,920
4 Wheel Drive Magazine: $21,070
Ontario Golf Magazine: $26,070
Wine Access Magazine: $34,390
Twitter Campaign to promote seal hunt: $50,000—$100,000

Cuz U prefer to cut this stuff:
1.CIDA and SOW in past 2 weeks:
2. Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW)
3.CERA (Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation);
4.Conseil d'intervention pour l'accès des femmes au travail (around for 25 years) 5.New Brunswick Pay Equity Coalition,
6. le R...éseau des Tables régionales de groupes de femmes du Québec,
7.Alberta Network of Immigrant Women,
8.Centre de documentation sur l’éducation des adultes et la condition feminine,
9.Association féminine d’éducation et d’action sociale (AFEAS),
10.Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses (OAITH) (a 75-member coalition primarily of first stage emergency shelters for abused women.) and now
11.MATCH ."