Talk:Abortion in Canada/Archive 1

message: There are a few points of POV here which I think could be cleared up. Thought I'd post my thoughts here before altering the article too much.
:For example, in a poll conducted by the National Post in November 2002, 78% of respondents answered "yes" to the question "Should women have complete freedom on their decision to have an abortion?"
I have a problem with simplistic yes/no polls and I imagine this is a question where polling can be particularly biased (although I perhaps would have expected it be to biased in the other direction with a poll commissioned by the Post). In any case, I think it's worth noting that, while the vast majority (apparently about 80% of the population) of Canadian people would consider themselves "pro-choice" to some degree, many people within this group do not agree with the idea that abortion should be legal under any circumstance, which is what Canadian law currently states. 
:As in other countries illegal abortions were still performed, leading to the deaths of many women every year.
I agree this is probably true, but I know people who vehemently dispute this as either factually errant or completely irrelevant. As such, I think this should be supported with some form of Canada-specific statistics.
::Don't see any problem with this at all, despite what some cranks may claim it's obvious abortions occured. -- stewacide
:While no mainstream political party in Canada explicitly opposes abortion availability, the Conservative Party of Canada has a number of pro-life members and is often supported by pro-life Canadians.
Despite Paul Martin's assurances, the Liberal Party of Canada has many pro-life members as well. I'm not sure of the actual percentage of Liberal MPs who are pro-life (it varies depending on one's interpretation of people in the grey area in between the two extremes, but I've heard as high as 35-40%, although I suspect it's more like 15-20%) but it is very POV to single out the Conservative Party of Canada when the movement is clearly not isolated to that party. -- Matty j 19:47, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)
::I agree as worded this is misleading, although it is probably still worth mentioning that there is some preceived affinity between the Conservative party and anti-abortion advocates. -- stewacide
--Marcie 00:42, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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message: I use a British dictionary which had a similar reference which i drew upon, but it didn't have the actual spelling in this case. I tried typing in several versions into my Word spell checker and didn't have any luck...please fix it if its spelt wrong...i'm trying to remember to check such stuff.
--Marcie 22:43, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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message: Hey everyone...I wanted to let Marcie know that I appreciate her comments but i've been busy and haven't delved into wikipedia as much as I would like to (school and whatnot...)  Anyway, I wanted to contact you but I'm not sure how to send an email or a wikimail or whatever.  Anyways, I would love to correspond with wikipedians in general, wikichicks in particular. 
I would very much like to write an article on Adoption in Canada, as was suggested, and actually do something about this article rather than just adding tags to it.
Thanks everyone and send me some comments!
:If you want to contact me you just write you just click on the name at the end and then ask to go to the talk page (the page you will go to first has a bio. I can see that its you Paul that posted this, because the edit is new...you need to sign at the end if you want a discusion, i couldn't tell what you were talking about. Also a comment left on your page is not going to be understood by everyone else (which is where i left it). I'm not interested in actually typing the link in if people want to see what i wrote. I can either copy it back here or could someone type in the link (i'm getting rusty at linking and i was never all that good anyway).
:Going away for a while happens. I had a computer problem and was away for several months (i'd just started here and then it took a while for me to get back here). You pick up where things are at.
:An adoption page is still going to go through a lot of writing and you aren't going to get exactly what i think you might want. I'm (at the very least) going to argue just as strongly that adoption can have mental impact on the birth mother that are not positive. However it is one worth persuing if it interests you...and let me know i want to be a part of it. Also a lot of people from Canada are adopting from outside the country. Everyone wants a baby without a disability and (preferably) white. (there are always exceptions but many of those children you see up for adoption are no longer cute babies or have disabilities of some type or are not white---there are statistics on it somewhere and i've gone through them)
:i am however NOT a wikichick...others if you want to see  the comment he is talking about i put it onto his page. I don't feel like linking it at the moment (i still find it hard) but i'll copy it out to here if anyone is interested in it (or you can go and see his talk page)--Marcie 23:12, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: in editing i accidentally erased the fact that there was a totally new entry by Paul (its still in here) can someone get it to show on the list again...or is it just not showing on mine?
--Marcie 23:19, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  hey everyone...