{"id":8326,"date":"2010-05-04T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T21:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2010-05-04T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T21:42:49","slug":"shut-the-expletive-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/shut-the-expletive-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut the expletive up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth used a naughty word to chastise a meeting of international women&#8217;s equality \u2013 a nomenclature guaranteed to send shivers up the spine of sane people  everywhere &#8211; rights groups. Ruth, a feminist and supporter of a woman\u2019s right to murder her unborn child, fears that this could become an <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2010\/05\/03\/abortion-maternal.html?ref=rss\">election issue<\/a>. <\/em> Perish the thought of the most pressing ethical outrage of our time becoming an election issue; whatever next.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got five weeks or whatever left until the G8 starts. Shut the fuck up on this issue,&#8221; she says. &#8220;If you push it, there&#8217;ll be more backlash. This is now a political football. This is not about women&#8217;s health in this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She went on to say, &#8220;Canada is still a country with free and accessible abortion. Leave it there. Don&#8217;t make this an election issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth used a naughty word to chastise a meeting of international women&#8217;s equality \u2013 a nomenclature guaranteed to send shivers up the spine of sane people everywhere &#8211; rights groups. Ruth, a feminist and supporter of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/shut-the-expletive-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2022,2233],"class_list":["post-8326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion","tag-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}