I spotted a sign wrapped around a telephone pole on the way home the other day, advertising a rally on the 19th of July [pdf link]. The organisation is called the “NoToPope Coalition”, and apparently stand against the Catholic Church on a number of things, including the right to (at Saturday’s rally):
- Defend the right to protest
- Say “No!” to homophobia
- “No!” to anti-condom policies
- Defend reproductive rights
The last one is a little curious. I assume that what they mean by that is ‘the right to choose not to reproduce’, but it’s certainly a strange way of putting it. I’ve never before heard of anyone charging the Roman Catholic Church with denying their reproductive freedom. There’s a reason, after all, for all those large Catholic families.
It’s not the right to choose not to reproduce they’re after….
it’s the right to choose to have an abortion.
Mike
Sure. Same critique though.
More accurately it’s ‘anti-reproductive rights’, or at the very least ‘non-reproductive rights’.