Feminist Fightback

Big fortnight ahead for us girls of the pro-abortion, anti-Jesus Christ/God/Allah/Mohamed persuasion.

Abortion Rights is holding a lobby at parliament this week on Wednesday. You can read more about this (when, where, why, etc) here.

Then on Friday 25 January, Feminist Fightback will picket the Christian Medical Fellowship at 4pm, (6 Marshalea Road, SE1 1HL, London). The CMF is lobbying the government very hard over the bill, and needs a bit of hard lobbying itself as a result.

As has been discussed on this site, a great many of us are very concerned that the anti-abortion/happy clappers lobby is using the government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill as an opportunity to table amendments that threaten the Abortion Act. 

They are especially keen to reduce the legal time limit for abortion from 24 to 20 - or even 18 - weeks of pregnancy.

Thing is - does anyone really want these changes, apart from conservative political opportunists?

... is back for a second year. Will write more on this shortly, but in the meantime, diary Saturday 20 October 2007 at the University of East London for this event.

We're all going, because we're all feminists - women, blokes, the works.

More at feminist fightback.

Photos from the pro-choice rally in London, Saturday 3 March 2007.

Keep your rosaries off our ovaries... liked that slogan a lot. Just say no to sex with pro-lifers was another goodie.

You'll find photos from last night's pro-choice rally in London here. The interviews we did will follow shortly.

Amusing point for now - a number of people we talked to at the rally said they'd emailed Tory MP Nadine Dorries to ask questions about the Termination of Pregnancy Bill she plans to table in Parliament on 23 March 2007, and that she hadn't responded to them, either. (She has been ignoring us, as readers of this site will know).

Which is very bad manners. An MP must to respond to members of the public, even if that response is Get Bent.

Time to make a Freedom of Information request asking for all emails Nadine has received and ignored on this most important topic. After all, she started it by trying to table these opportunistic bills in the first place. The least she can do is explain why.

Hey - maybe she can't.

Rational human beings plan a pro-abortion rally on 3 March 2007, to slap back the world's advancing army of anti-abortion religious loons.

Everyone with a brain respects the fact that free and legal abortion is a service that will always be provided in a civilised society. Or so we girls like to believe. Sadly for us, the political stage as we presently have it is cluttered with an apparently endless cast of religious zealots and/or Christian and Muslim toadies, all of whom have far too much to contribute on subjects with which they have no sympathy whatsoever - ie, women, normal sexual relationships, entirely human contraceptive oversights, and the madness that is having a crazy, impromptu shag with your bloke on the couch, then realising you're full of live sperm.

In other words, your average God/Allah-botherer does not know much about life on earth.

Fortunately, not everybody is a religious fanatic, or trying to climb into bed with one. The good people at Feminist Fightback, for example, are trying to operate in the real world of real women's issues. Feminist Fightback is a relatively new group of concerned citizens that formed at the end of 2006 to talk about, and try to change, various aspects of the modern world that prevent so many women from leading agreeable lives.