Excellent news from Switzerland, as the Swiss Parliament has legalized abortion. The Swiss are notorious laggards when it comes to women’s rights issues: that whole women’s suffrage thing didn’t go through until 1971, but this is an encouraging sign. Unfortunately the Christian People’s Party may be able to hold up decriminalization for a few years by forcing a referendum before the new law is enacted. I do applaud CPP for their honesty about the fundamentally obstructionist, anti-choice, anti-woman nature of their stance: the Party President, Adalbert Durrer, summed it up by saying that The question of abortion should not be considered by the woman alone. [She needs a big strong white-coated man in there to overcome her feminine irrationality!]

Man admits posting bounty for abortion provider [Salon] — Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to offering $1.5 million online to anyone who would murder an abortion provider. He could receive up to 1 year in prison and a $100,000 fine for intimidating an abortion provider. Why the hell he isn’t in prison for a couple decades for attempted murder, I am not sure. Oh, PS, he will probably get a few more years in prison and/or whapped with another $250,000 in fines, for the child pornography that he happened to have on his computer when it was seized by authorities.

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