USA – 5 Fetuses Removed From Home of Anti-Abortion Activist, Group Says

The police said they had gone to a home in Washington to investigate a tip about “potential biohazard material” when officers found the fetuses inside. An investigation was continuing.

By Michael Levenson
Published March 31, 2022

The police said on Thursday that five fetuses had been removed from a home in Washington that, according to an anti-abortion group, belonged to an activist who was charged by the Justice Department this week with blocking access to an abortion clinic in October 2020.

The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia would release only the address where the fetuses were found. Terrisa Bukovinac, the founder and executive director of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, confirmed that the home belonged to Lauren Handy, 28, the group’s director of activism, who was arrested and charged with federal civil rights offenses this week.

Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/us/fetus-anti-abortion-home.html


Canada – Photo with anti-LGBTQ+ politician was ‘colossal’ mistake, says Toronto brewer

Photo with anti-LGBTQ+ politician was ‘colossal’ mistake, says Toronto brewer

By Alastair Sharp in News, Politics
October 3rd 2019

A Toronto brewery co-founder says her own trade group made a “colossal, tone-deaf mistake” in meeting with a Ford government politician who has vowed to fight abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

Mandie Murphy, who co-founded Toronto's Left Field Brewery, tore into Ontario Craft Brewers (OCB) in an open letter dated Tuesday and posted on the brewery’s website. Her concerns were echoed by two other breweries: Sawdust City Brewing Co., another OCB member based in Gravenhurst, Ont., as well as Hamilton’s Merit Brewing.

Continued: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/10/03/news/photo-anti-lgbtq-politician-was-colossal-mistake-says-toronto-brewer