Bill C-484 - What's really wrong with it?

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Thu, 2008-04-24 09:28

martin dufresne

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I was of the opinion that this bill could be ok if the wording was altered, as I support anything to assist in the fight against VAW. However, now I think it is too risky. I have read statements by many in the legal and medical profession who think this legislation will open a back door.

I totally agree. Our disagreement lies, i think, on the rationale for taking women's choice to the level of social policy. I don't think it can be that individual choice about decisions involving one's body is always justified because such decisions are merely a private matter. As I wrote above, even making choice determining would involve taking it to the collective, public level, if only because of the public resources needed to actualize that entitlement.

Thu, 2008-04-24 09:32

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Ghislaine

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Originally posted by martin dufresne:
[b] I totally agree. Our disagreement lies, i think, on the rationale for taking women's choice to the level of social policy. I don't think it can be that individual choice about decisions involving one's body is always justified because such decisions are merely a private matter. As I wrote above, even making choice determining would involve taking it to the collective, public level, if only because of the public resources needed to actualize that entitlement.[/b]

I am not quite certain that I understand what you are saying. A woman's right to control her own body should NEVER go to the collective, public level. It does not matter if abortions are taxpayer funded or that I personally don't want women to get them. It is THEIR body and you, I or anyone else don't have a say. Even if the woman is doing it because she does not want a female child or a child with down syndrome or even a child froma black father. NO reason is good enough to remove her individual choice and give it to the collective.

Thu, 2008-04-24 09:36

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martin dufresne

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"(...) Both physically and in terms of women's identity as mothers and epistemologically as female knowers, reproductive technologies are seen as a threat by radical feminists. And of course, this can be seen clearly with a specific use of prenatal screening technology - the literal erasure of females by the practice of female feticide.
In China, for example, it has become evident that the eradication of female foetuses is not uncommon (Waren, 1985). This is instigated by official limits on family size and the belief that female babies are less desirable than male babies, especially in rural areas. This sex preselection is having major repercussions on the sex ratio balance in both China and India.(...)" - in [i]Feminism after Postmodernism Theorising[/i], Marysia Zalewski, London: Routledge, 2000

Thu, 2008-04-24 09:41

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Michelle

Long thread.

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