Quebecers back a woman’s right to have an embryo removed from her own
body, but not to choose whether to wear a piece of fabric on her head.
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/martin-patriquin-quebecers-double-standard-on-women-and-their-bodies?fbclid=IwAR2BgoU6Q90vA3WEu1kCxEojBQLPnSNZftCP8Iw0FbBJX2HBY7wTImwMS9g
Richard Martineau, as Richard Martineau wants you to know, is pro-choice. “I am an atheist and I support access to abortion,” the Journal de Montréal columnist wrote a couple of years ago. The same goes for fellow columnist Sophie Durocher, who happens to be Martineau’s wife. “Abortion isn’t a sin. It’s a fundamental right,” as Durocher wrote in 2015. Her reasoning is, dare I say it, remarkably sensible: women have authority over their own bodies.
I highlight the tempestuous twosome’s abortion pensées not to give them more attention (they don’t need it). Rather, it’s to point out a dominant hypocrisy when it comes to women’s rights in this province, of which Martineau and Durocher are arguably the most conspicuous offenders.
In short: Quebecers are overwhelmingly supportive of a woman’s right to have an embryo removed from her own body. Yet if that same woman chooses to wear a piece of fabric on her head in the name of her religion, those same people suddenly become armchair mullahs, convinced they have the right and duty to coax it off. The resulting ire directed toward certain women, including observant Muslims, would make a happy man out of the average misogynist.
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/martin-patriquin-quebecers-double-standard-on-women-and-their-bodies?fbclid=IwAR2BgoU6Q90vA3WEu1kCxEojBQLPnSNZftCP8Iw0FbBJX2HBY7wTImwMS9g
Richard Martineau, as Richard Martineau wants you to know, is pro-choice. “I am an atheist and I support access to abortion,” the Journal de Montréal columnist wrote a couple of years ago. The same goes for fellow columnist Sophie Durocher, who happens to be Martineau’s wife. “Abortion isn’t a sin. It’s a fundamental right,” as Durocher wrote in 2015. Her reasoning is, dare I say it, remarkably sensible: women have authority over their own bodies.
I highlight the tempestuous twosome’s abortion pensées not to give them more attention (they don’t need it). Rather, it’s to point out a dominant hypocrisy when it comes to women’s rights in this province, of which Martineau and Durocher are arguably the most conspicuous offenders.
In short: Quebecers are overwhelmingly supportive of a woman’s right to have an embryo removed from her own body. Yet if that same woman chooses to wear a piece of fabric on her head in the name of her religion, those same people suddenly become armchair mullahs, convinced they have the right and duty to coax it off. The resulting ire directed toward certain women, including observant Muslims, would make a happy man out of the average misogynist.
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