Tag: abortion

• Medicine and Ideology

  Some things are more definitive than others –less ambiguous, more predictable. Reliable, in other words. They lend themselves to yes-no answers, right-wrong judgements, good-bad characteristics. And some people prefer to see the world in black and white like this. Uncertainty is uncomfortable for them; they crave cognitive closure in the opinion of Arie Kruglanski, a […]

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  October 15, 2014

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  abortion, Arie Kruglanski, Canadian Medical Association Journal, cognitive closure, dogma, Ideology, medicine, politics, pregnancy termination, Relational autonomy, State laws, transition, ultrasound

• Sex Selection… or Any Selection

  Another day, another march. This time it was the March for Life in Ottawa where the usual Pro-Life rhetoric was rebranded as being against sex-selection abortions. A worthy cause, for sure, and probably more universally palatable than condemning all abortions -whether done for medical, genetic, or even social reasons- as they have in the past. And by aligning themselves with the […]

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  May 11, 2013

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  abortion, choice, gendercide, medical ethics, opinion compromise, Sex selection, vexing questions, women’s issues

• The Stand

  “So, do you have a stand on that, then?” She was smartly dressed in jeans and what looked to be an expensive white silk blouse and divided her eyes between my face and a little notebook in her lap. Whenever I said something she liked, she would scribble furiously and noisily in it. Otherwise it was […]

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  November 30, 2012

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  abortion, doctor choice, patient choice, pregnancy, Pro-Choice, society, treatment options, wellness, women’s health