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[–]Immortallogic 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Hey I'm Canadian as well, but I don't agree with your statement regarding being convinced to vote conservative. If the cons had been in power through this crisis I think it would have been much worse.

With regards to abortions - what's the point of voting con which would just mean we don't have access to it at all? That doesnt make any sense... With the Dem's (better yet let's get the NDP's in) at least women would still have more rights, then the fight to keep the sex vs gender argument open will continue. But voting con is just bad new all around, for women, racial minorities, etc. Look at how it's working out for America...

[–]jelliknight 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with OP. One side is trying to take away specific women's rights. The other side is trying to take away ALL legal concept of women as a category and in doing so remove dozens of women's rights.

We can work around abortion bans (there's herbs and menstrual extraction which are both very safe), we can't work around mixed sex prisons, no right to be searched be a female officer, losing women's sports, etc etc.