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The Onion doesn't miss

Very dry, I think.

This sums it up: Henry Morgentaler - The Lancet

Physician and proponent of the Canadian abortion rights movement. Born in Lodz, Poland, on March 19, 1923, he died on May 29, 2013, in Toronto, Canada, aged 90 years.

He was acclaimed as a Canadian hero, a champion of the women's rights movement, and in 2008 awarded the Order of Canada, one of the nation's highest honours. Yet when Henry Morgentaler died there were few words of praise from the country's ruling elite and the location of his funeral was kept a secret for fear it would draw anti-abortion protesters. Even in death Morgentaler, the man who did more than any other to change Canada's restrictive abortion law, was a divisive figure.

Morgentaler did his first abortion in 1968—on the 18-year-old daughter of a friend—when the deed was punishable by life imprisonment. “I decided to break the law to provide a necessary medical service because women were dying at the hands of butchers and incompetent quacks, and there was no one there to help them. The law was barbarous, cruel and unjust”, he said. Over the next two decades Morgentaler opened a chain of clinics across Canada, trained scores of doctors, and performed thousands more terminations himself. He was assaulted and imprisoned, attacked, one clinic was firebombed, and he took to wearing a bulletproof vest. But in 1988 he won a historic victory when the Supreme Court of Canada removed all legal restrictions on abortion, which led to the spread of abortion clinics nationwide.

A Holocaust survivor, Morgentaler said his imprisonment by the Nazis in the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps honed his sense of injustice and prepared him for the battles ahead. But he caused anger and frustration among some of his supporters with his imperious and authoritarian style. “He was not a team player”, said Catherine Dunphy, author of the book Morgentaler: A Difficult Hero. Yet his supporters said that without him, they would never have achieved what they did.

The son of Jewish socialists, Morgentaler spent much of World War 2 in Poland's Lodz ghetto with his mother, brother, and sister. His sister died there. His father, a textile worker and union organiser, had been killed by the Gestapo when the Nazis invaded in 1939. He was sent to Auschwitz with his mother and brother in 1944 where his mother was executed. After liberation in 1945 he studied medicine in Germany and Belgium before moving to Canada in 1950, where he completed his medical training at the University of Montreal. He settled down as a general practitioner in a working-class district of the city where he remained for the next 15 years. He had married his childhood sweetheart, Chava Rosenfarb, in 1949, and they had two children.

But Morgentaler was not satisfied with a quiet life; he joined humanist groups and in 1967 addressed a parliamentary group calling for safe, unrestricted abortion. That changed everything. Afterwards he was swamped with requests for terminations which he initially refused until his feelings of cowardice and hypocrisy overcame him. By then he was already in his mid-40s and for the next 20 years he battled the Canadian authorities and was rarely out of the headlines. Judy Rebick, the feminist campaigner and author who became spokesperson for his Toronto clinic from its opening in 1982, said he had not looked for the cause—it had found him. “He was challenged by women who wanted help. It was pretty rare for someone in their 50s to confront the law and risk everything. Especially a doctor living a comfortable life. His willingness to risk everything inspired a lot of people”, Rebick said.

Morgentaler himself believed abortion would reduce crime. “Well-loved children grow into adults who do not build concentration camps, do notremoved and do not murder”, he said in 2005, on being awarded an honorary degree by the University of Western Ontario. The award cost the university a bequest of CAN$2 million, withdrawn as a result. Despite being a diminutive figure, Morgentaler had an imposing, charismatic personality. After divorcing Chava Rosenfarb he married Carmen Wernli in 1979, by whom he had a son before a second divorce. Later he married Arlene Leibovich and had another son. She and his four children survive him. A few months before his death a group of friends and supporters gathered at his Toronto home to mark the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision. Christopher DiCarlo, a family friend who spoke at the celebration, said: “Henry stood his ground and succeeded where so many refused to go.”

Well it was a nice article until the first sentence of the last paragraph. But I am deciding to keep this piece in the interest of honesty.

Title image from: La justice en procès : l'affaire Morgentaler - NFB

See also Womens Liberation part 5 —FORWARD—Abortion rights campaign & Morgentaler Defence Campaign

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because I clearly am privileged and don't understand how much the marginalized need the godsent revolutionary leader, Kamala Harris, who will purge society of all reactionary and bourgeois tendencies and definitely not further those tendencies instead.

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Nobody has ever used this in a good comment. It's either some dip shit being smug or some creep sexually harassing someone half their age

The dems are shit but I think they got an easy layup on the republicans here. Spoiler alert - it's a very bland ad - Julia Roberts Reminds Us - Your Vote, Your Choice - YouTube

I did a good faith search for the 90 000 number for Cuba, and I can only see US government sources and Cuba dissident groups. Cuba's own reports put this at half the number, which puts them well below Amerika.

From here.

And will the cops and national guard even bother with trying to stop them? Let's hear your predictions.

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[Graph from here](World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country (No other country even makes the first page))

Kamala's campaign is run by insular, myopic idiots, but that doesn't mean that all the dem party groups are.

Can't find the source sadly it's not up on CNN's website yet with the reporting. Look at my elections dawg I ain't never escaping climate catastrophe.

Decided today to see what the blogging platform had to offer since I have an account but it's been inactive since idk when 2021 maybe. Title is some of the things I'm into and would like to get a feed going.

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Found at the DDR museum in Berlin. Apparently making childrens play with each other is communist propaganda.

Parenti quote.

It's run by Die Linke, but still...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21517567

Summary

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed he was “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep, leaving claw marks on his body, which he says are still visible. Carlson described waking with intense pain, bleeding claw marks, and an overwhelming urge to read the Bible. He recounted the experience as confusing yet transformative, adding that while he doesn’t expect others to believe him, the incident profoundly impacted him.

Satan can win if you vote for him

Greta Tankberg countdown:

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