Oppose “Unborn Victims of Crime” Act in Canada

This is just another wedge strategy for the anti-choice group. It was sponsored by Ken Epp, a Conservative member of parliament who just happens to belong to Campaign Life Canada. Redfez demolishes Epp’s arguments.

Laura at We Move to Canada caught Epp admitting his motivation: it’s all about the unborn.

Choice Joyce adds:

Two homicide convictions would not even give a longer sentence to a perpetrator because sentences in Canada are concurrent. So the bill does ZIP except give personhood to fetuses. And there’s absolutely no reason to do that, other than to make inroads onto abortion rights. Killers of pregnant women can already be given harsher sentences; we don’t need a new law.

In a previous post, Redfez notes:

Similar laws in the US haven’t been effective at protecting pregnant women and in fact have worked against them.
(Click here for complete article.)

Birthpangs points out that the mainstream media are finally starting to notice “this sneak attack on women’s rights” in “Nope, Nothing to Do with Abortion.”

Joyce Arthur asks for help:

The “Unborn Victims of Crime Act” is scheduled for a Parliamentary vote on March 5. This bill would give fetuses personhood, and it has a chance of passing. Not only is it a foot-in-the-door to recriminalize abortion, it would also endanger the rights of all pregnant women, and violate women’s equality rights in general. Please check out our 14 Talking Points on the dangers of this bill. Here’s what you can do to help:

1. Sign our petition against the bill.

2. Send a letter to your MP urging them to vote against the bill: sample letter.

3. Post a link to the petition on your website or blog.

4. Spread the word.

Thank you so much!

You can contact Stephane Dion, leader of the Liberal Party, and also your own MP, here.

What the Old Testament says.

Quoting Philip K. Dick

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
— Philip K. Dick

(image from cracked.com)

Content Convergence and Integration conference

Content management professionals have an opportunity to learn and share expertise in Vancouver March 12 - 14. The idea of convergence and integration of content stems from the very real advantage of re-using topics, definitions, tutorials, and the like in different contexts after pulling them from different sources.

Content Convergence and Integration 2008 is for content professionals who need to find more strategic ways to manage their content in a world where content now gets created and syndicated, integrated, repurposed, and redistributed. Content professionals, from Web to marketing to technical communication professionals, from content management to knowledge management to information management consultants, are searching for new techniques to stay ahead of the curve.

The conference tracks, appropriately enough, converge into three daily themes: Content, Technology, and User Relationships.

The agenda looks very interesting. The Content track has an emphasis on XML and classification of information.