
If you’re a woman, a person of colour (or both!) who cares about the justice system, your prime concern shouldn’t be the deplorable state it’s in. You should be getting into law school, passing the bar, and becoming a judge—according to Peter MacKay, none of you are applying, and that’s why our system isn’t very diverse.And in equally cheery news, New Brunswick’s TeleCare hotline is slanting information on abortions towards the anti-choice side of the preposterous argument.
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New Brunswick Still Trying Its Hardest To Coerce Women Out Of Having AbortionsIf you live in New Brunswick, you’d better not fall victim to an unwanted pregnancy. Not only is the province’s one abortion clinic closing its doors, but now, the province’s free public healthcare line, TeleCare, or 811, is blatantly peddling anti-choice information.Jaden Fitzherbert lives in Fredericton, and she’s an abortion rights advocate. She let me know of the transgressions last week after she called the health line and pretended to be grappling with an unwanted pregnancy. Instead of getting a contact number for the public health office, she received no fewer than three phone numbers for anti-choice organizations.Fitzherbert tells me she called the Thursday before last, posing as a 19 year-old who was looking to access abortion services. The operator who picked up responded with numbers for Birth Right Fredericton, the Saint John Pregnancy Resource Centre, and the Moncton Pregnancy Resource Centre, all of which are anti-choice organizations. The last two are openly religious, and associated with the NB Right to Life Association, a group whose home is next door to the Morgentaler Clinic, and whose members shame women as they go through its doors for abortions.Members of Reproductive Justice New Brunswick, a group that sprang up in the wake of the Morgentaler closure announcement, report making multiple calls only to receive the same anti-choice contacts.
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Mackay Says Women Too Busy Being Mommies To Want To Be Judges, Defends Preposterous StatementCanada’s courts lack diversity because women and people of colour are simply not applying. Women, in particular, are avoiding it because they are intimidated by the whole old boys’ club factor, and because they are busy having babies.
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