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Stop Abortion Censorship · 4d ago

Somerville: Democracy hurt by abortion stats secrecy

Two abortion-in-the-public-square situations show abortion is much more than a pro-life versus pro-choice conflict, it’s a pro-democracy versus anti-democracy one. The furor over Stephen Woodward’s private member’s motion in Parliament to discuss whether the un-born child is a human being has been f
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Stop Abortion Censorship · 2W ago

Shhhh….Ontario Censors Abortion Data…Secretly

The cowards over at the Ontario Legislature must have slapped each other’s backs in glee. They pulled a fast one on the people of Ontario.  No one noticed…or maybe they did and didn’t care. Patricia Maloney writes: “The amendment to FIPPA was silently slipped in as part of Bill 122: An Act to increa
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Stop Abortion Censorship · 3W ago

Canada hides from its embarrassing abortion statistics

The silence is deafening.  Every year that abortion statistics have been released there has been some commentary in the mainstream news media.  When the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released its 2010 figures last week, citing 64,641 abortions – a 40% decrease since 2004, there wa
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Stop Abortion Censorship · 1M ago

Quotable Quotes

Abortion and complication reporting provisions do not impose an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to choose whether or not to terminate a pregnancy. “The collection of information with respect to actual patients is a vital element of medical research, and so it cannot be said that the requirements s
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Stop Abortion Censorship · 3M ago

UVIC Student Society has temper tantrum, sorry, sings kumbaya and then strips rights away from pro-life club

UPDATE: We are told that no such temper tantrum took place.  Discussion at the meeting was respectful and logical. After which they kindly stripped away the constitutional rights of the UVIC Pro-Life group. You can do just about anything, we guess, as long as you join hands and sing kumbaya…after wh
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Stop Abortion Censorship · 5M ago

Three Times a Charm?

There you have it.  Three, count em, three Information and Privacy Commissioners for British Columbia have stated that the ban on access to information on abortion is wrong….with Commissioner Denham even stating that British Columbia is not meeting international standards. Will the government listen
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Stop Abortion Censorship · 6M ago

BC not meeting “international standards” for FOI according to the Information & Privacy Commissioner

Wow! Here it is: “I agree with my predecessors that a mandatory exception based solely on the subject-matter of the record is a feature of outmoded access laws.  The current international standard for exceptions to disclosure is that all exceptions should be harms based. I would further agree that s
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Stop Abortion Censorship · 6M ago

Another day another letter to the Information & Privacy Commissioner

Dear Ms. Denham: I have been greatly encouraged by statements you have made, in a variety of settings, on the issue of access to information and the rights of citizens in a democracy. Your letter of October 20, 2011 to the Honourable Dr. Margaret MacDiarmid Minister of Labour, Citizens’ Services  an
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Stop Abortion Censorship · 7M ago

BC’s abortion stats: screwing the rest of the country

The Canadian Institute for Health Information has finally, after almost 3 year, released abortion statistics for Canada for the year 2009. Once again British Columbia is the laughingstock of Canada. Why?  Well it seems the CIHI cannot publish “accurate” (whatever that means) abortion statistics for
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