Women knit reproductive organs in Alberta abortion protest: womanspace.ca
Knitting for Reproductive Rights
Members of Womanspace, a women’s advocacy organization in Lethbridge, Alberta, is calling on volunteers to knit or crochet replicas of women’s reproductive organs to send a message to members of Parliament in protest of Motion 312.
Motion 312, introduced by Tory MP Stephen Woodworth, would call for a committee to review whether a fetus should be considered a human being. Women’s groups are concerned that this would lead to further attacks on reproductive rights.
“People do different colours, but pink has been the dominant colour for the obvious reasons. But it’s also a little bit funny to be sending a pink uterus to a male member of Parliament who wouldn’t feel comfortable holding one,” said Womanspace spokeswoman Jenn Prosser.
Womanspace, which has held two separate knitting events this month, was motivated by Womb Swarm Parliament – Textile Artists United Against Motion M-312, which is a national movement on Facebook.
Knitted and crocheted items will be sent to Parliament at the end of the month. Motion 312 will be voted on September 26, during the fall session.
“Our group is going to send a few of our creations to our own MP [Tory Jim Hillyer] because he has stated … he would support any challenge to the current access to reproductive rights that women have in Canada,” she said.
Ms. Prosser said there has been no negative reaction on Facebook, in e-mails or in messages to the office about what the group is doing
“I think there’s a great number of people … who believe very strongly in reproductive rights and the right of a woman to have control over her own body. But I think a lot of people maybe wouldn’t feel comfortable holding a placard outside of someone’s office.
“This is a way that they can participate that’s meaningful, but still on their own terms, without necessarily having to go out and put their face in front of someone else’s face in more of an aggressive manner.”
Let me be the first to give negative feedback. We as human beings have a right to do anything we want within the laws given us, which guard the protection of our human society. Protection, which grants rights and freedoms. Our laws do not grant people the right to kill other people because it is convenient to them. This is a human rights issue. I have the right to have sex with anyone I choose. But I also do so knowing full well my actions could result in pregnancy. Abortion is the upmost selfish act, and it was predicted if allowed it would be used for birth control, which it has been used for. We know that the fetus is a human being. Establishing a commission to instigate what we can clearly see by science should have no bearing on the reproductive rights of women. There is no real connection. What the abortion industry is afraid of is that people will have their eyes opened to the truth that we already know, a fetus is a human child in the early stages of life. It is a stage of human life. It is necessary to the further development of a human child, one that when fully developed will seek its way out of its mother’s womb into our world where it can open its eyes and breath oxygen for the first time through its mouth and nose. The abortion industry is oppressive to women because it tries to hide the truth from them. It tries to tell them that they are not killing their own children. It tries to tell them to continue feeding the machine of misinformation so that they can continue to reap millions of dollars from the abortion procedures. Women across the country are showing how stupid they really are in believing this to be a reproductive issue. It is not. It is a human rights issue. We tear our own children apart, limb by limb, crush their head, and then vacuum them out of the womb, causing trauma to the reproductive organs in the process. Many women hemorrhage and die from the procedures used to kill their children, but the medical community refuses to acknowledge the connection between their deaths and the abortive procedure that caused it. We burn our children inside and out with a saline solution. This is not humanity, this is not civilization. This is barbaric and atrocious. I stand for Bill 312. Let it pass, so that our eyes may be opened to the depravity of our true humanity. Oh Canada, see what you have really become.