Canada: The uteruses of poor women are our business

[sabotabby]

First, CIDA's funding priorities get changed to focus on women and children. (Never mind that CIDA's funding priorities have always been global hegemony.)

Then, Harper's increasingly batshit government was going to cut funding for contraception in its foreign aid.

[Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon] told a House of Commons committee that the government's initiative to bolster maternal health in developing countries would not include funding for contraception, because “the purpose of this is to be able to save lives.”

(Not the lives of women and girls, of course. Women are meatbags in which precious fetuses may be temporarily stored.)

Now they're saying that contraception is in, but abortion is out. Maybe. And if you say otherwise, you're anti-American.

Every year, unsafe abortion kills at least 700,000 women. Maternal death is a global crisis. And yet these sanctimonious sons-of-bitches at Parliament Hill who can't even be arsed to run their own country think that they should get to decide whether women in other countries get to control their own bodies?

Fuck them all. I'm provisionally impressed that the Liberals have decided to take a stand on this, but I'm betting they'll cave in the end.

Comments

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

That's not what I got from the article sabs linked. Mind you, you may well have sources beyond that. But if the libs won't even use the word abortion, and won't reframe the debate focus on the rights of women, poor or rich, here or away, to make their own healthcare decisions, then I can't see how they'll stand up for women's rights if the social conservatives do succeed in re-opening the debate.