A group that is leading a ballot initiative to establish abortion rights in the Ohio Constitution sued state officials this week after a board finalized ballot language that uses the term “unborn child” rather than the group’s preference to use the term “fetus.”
Fetus is Latin for “young one,” and so essentially it means “unborn baby” in a different language. But the scientific terminology assists in obscuring the person being killed during an abortion, and thus abortion activists prefer it be used.
Conservative Members of Parliament with a socially conservative instinct to protect young people from over-sexualization and New Democrat Members of Parliament with a progressive instinct to limit the proliferation of content that is inherently exploitative could team up, as they did at the 2021 Parliamentary Committee, and push the government to focus its online harms bill on age-gating online pornography websites, using successful American legislation as a model.
Her private Facebook comment which was screenshotted and subsequently went viral, read: “Puberty blockers are f*****, absolutely desolate, big pharma laughing all the way to the bank. Little mixed-up kids are vulnerable and need to be protected, that’s just true.” She pre-empted criticism, writing “please don’t call me a terf [trans-exclusionary radical feminist], please don’t keep using that word against women.”
For that she’s since had gigs cancelled and is facing massive backlash.
