Farewell 40 Days: A prochoice party

We don't know about you, but we're DELIGHTED that 40 Days for Life's latest round of anti-choice clinic harassment will soon be drawing to close. Their final vigil is this coming Sunday, and to celebrate, we're holding a pro-choice party in Bedford Square.

Join us to celebrate them finally packing up their hypocritical signs, and help us show them that Bloomsbury does NOT want them back in the autumn.

Bring placards, noise, cake and bubbles (especially bubbles... they really hate bubbles).

On being disabled and pro-choice

Forty Days for Life like to present themselves as the ultimate defenders of the rights of the disabled, and although this is a classic piece of trolling from an organisation who delight in appropriating the language of liberation campaigns to defend their anti-choice stances – the signs they place in Bedford Square consistently use the word choice – it doesn’t mean that this isn’t worth investigating.

Pro-choice Pub Quiz

As 40 Days for Life continue their campaign of abortion clinic harassment at clinics in Bedford Square, Whitfield Street and Ealing, join us to raise money for pro-choice charities and celebrate the positive alternative: CHOICE! With special guest host, the fabulous Lucy Porter.

Parenting should be a choice

This week is the one year anniversary of the last full night's sleep I got. Happy anniversary, me!

Parenting is a tough job, which I'm sure won't be news to anyone reading. But unless you've actually done it, you may not have a good grasp of just how tough. It's not just the sleep, it's the whole thing; the fact that kids, especially very small kids, have needs 24/7, and you are, as their parent, on the hook for those needs, 24/7.

40 Days for Lies?

There's been a bit of discussion over on twitter about the contents of the leaflet that 40 DfL are handing out to clients of BPAS and Marie Stopes. I have a couple of these from last time round, and I'm just going to do a quick debunking of their claims. (Disclaimer, if you need it - I'm not talking about the risks of abortion in places where it's not safely and legally available - that's a whole different post.)


Have 40 days gone away?

Sadly not - from what I hear they're still outside clinics this week, intimidating and harassing vulnerable people. But when we turned up for the first of our Sunday protests this week there was a deserted lamppost, and no sign of the anti-choicers who usually congregate around it. Where were they? We have two theories.

Choice and risk

Let me tell you about my perineal tear.

OK, no, I am not yet so lost to social convention as to go into the full and gory detail. But it's a good example of the fact that while pregnancy and birth in richer parts of the world may be far, far safer than it once was, it's still a physically risky business.

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