This is a plea for my fellow humans (not just New Brunswickers, not just women, not just feminists) to rally either in person or online to #SaveTheClinic and #NBProChoice.
If you don't know already, the Morgentaler Clinic, currently the only abortion clinic in New Brunswick and one of the only clinics in the Maritimes, is closing its doors for good today.
Some consider this to mean thousands of lives saved. Please understand that the opposite is true. The closing of Morgentaler's doors means closing the door on the future of all the women who need to access its services. It means lives lost. Abortion is a valid and legal choice and it is a human right in this country, and yet women in New Brunswick are now being denied.
Imagine a world where a man is up to his neck in child care payments. He's struggling to get by. He doesn't want more children but he'd like to continue to have sex. Seems fair right? Now imagine that man being unable to attain a vasectomy. Right now in Canada men get vasectomy costs completely covered without issue.
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Imagine a world where a man wants to have sex but he's reached the age, or has a condition, where attaining an erection is difficult or impossible. He just wants to enjoy a normal sex life. Seems fair right? Now imagine that man being unable to attain erection-assisting drugs. Right now in Canada the cost of erectile dysfunction medication is completely covered without issue.
I could go on and on.
There was a joke on Saturday Night Live that if men needed abortions clinics would be on every corner. The fact is that men's health is taken very seriously while women's health becomes a political issue.
Look into the face of your daughter, your best friend, your partner. Look into the face you see in the mirror. If it's not you today, it could be you tomorrow. And tomorrow is too late.So please, take the time to tweet, share, tell your friends, write your MP, anything, to let "them" know that people care about this issue. That the women of New Brunswick matter. That they deserve to be more than their circumstances dictate.
