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I totally agree with Dan Gardner’s column today about demographics.

And I too am at risk of being slapped with that undesirable fanatic label.  I’m working to take back the term. Enjoy it. Feel it. Live it. Breathe it. Soon I’ll never be invited anywhere.

Anyhoo: You can’t talk about demographics without talking about fertility. And you can’t talk about fertility without talking about abortion. And you can’t talk about any of this without talking about an anti-child culture. And, for good measure, women waiting to have children.

Never miss a chance to be fanatical, I say. Life is short.

Wow. People dream of having spare time to call around like this. And all this to convince people who are decidedly “anti-life.” (Sarah McLachlan who started Lilith Fair is pro-choice.)

When a pro-abortion politician demands “abortion rights” as part of maternal health, it’s predictable like a “please play again” in your Roll Up The Rim to Win Tim Horton’s Coffee Cup.

You always hope for more, like a computer, or perhaps, $10,000 bucks! but what you get is a call for abortion rights. Predictable.

There are days, I swear, when the world looks very bleak. Even when the sun is shining.

Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — The game begins with a teenage girl on a subway platform. She notices you are looking at her and asks, “Can I help you with something?”

That is when you, the player, can choose your method of assault.

With the click of your mouse, you can grope her and lift her skirt. Then you can follow her aboard the train, assaulting her sister and her mother.

As you continue to play, “friends” join in and in a series of graphic, interactive scenes, you can corner the women, rape them again and again.

The game allows you to even impregnate a girl and urge her to have an abortion. The reason behind your assault, explains the game, is that the teenage girl has accused you of molesting her on the train. The motive is revenge.

It is little wonder that the game, titled RapeLay, sparked international outrage from women’s groups. Taina Bien-Aime helped yank the game off store shelves worldwide.

My first reaction was: “I sure hope it’s not just ‘women’s groups’ that are outraged, otherwise we’re doomed.” (Women’s groups being, on the whole, remarkably useless except when they’re worse.) But then I had a sip of coffee and reminded myself that maybe now we’ve reached the point where it can’t get any worse and that things are therefore bound to improve.

Is it possible, you think?

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Andrea adds: Darkness comes before the dawn.

Overheard on the Hill:

Question: Mr. Rae, Secretary of State Clinton said just moments ago that the government’s maternal health plan – she panned it saying it should include contraception, it should include abortion.  How do you read into that?
 
Bob Rae: Well, a government that’s controlled by a neo-conservative agenda is not – in today’s world not going to be able to fashion a serious consensus either with the Europeans or with the Americans.  … These guys have been labouring under an illusion that somehow if you bring in a neo-con agenda that’s going to prove interesting to countries like the United Kingdom and France and Germany and the United States which have been at this very important work on maternal health for a long time.  …this is the consequence of having an administration in Canada that has an agenda that’s out of step with most other countries in the world.

Question: But the fact that it was the Secretary of State though, does that add extra weight in your mind? 

Bob Rae: No kidding.  The Secretary of State of the United States, of course it adds weight. … 
Question: The Secretary of State also says thought that Canada should stay in Afghanistan in a military mission.  Do you think they should follow that advice?
Bob Rae: Of course not. …

It’s true. Men are wimps.

Heartwrenching. We can read of stories from an unknown Chinese mother, but the children never get to speak.

(I know Brigitte linked to this in a post below. I just thought this news item warrants a post of its own.)

An interesting article, by the famous British psychiatrist, Theodore Dalrymple, largely about how we esteem ourselves much too highly:

Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination. The former is a pleasurable vice, the latter a painful discipline. An accomplished psychobabbler can talk for hours about himself without revealing anything.

Hello, [insert the celebrity of your choice, but I'm thinking of Tiger Woods' "apology" right now.]

A book about the effect of the one child policy in China. Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother, Stories of Loss and Love, by Xinran. A quote, as cited in the March 6th version of The Economist:

At the tiny restaurant where Xinran eats lunch, the waitress tries to kill herself twice, each time after a little girl’s birthday party. The woman is tortured by the happy faces because, thinking it her duty to produce a male heir, she had smothered her baby daughters. She survives because, as well as the bottle of agricultural fertiliser she swallowed, she drank one of the waching-up liquid, thinking that any chemical in a bottle was poison. The detergent diluted the fertiliser’s fatal dose.

We don’t pay enough attention to China’s one child policy. Neither do we pay enough attention to women who have aborted here at home, and the grief they suffer.

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Brigitte can’t help but wonder: Think this is related?

Be thankful for our wealth and prosperity. Don’t waste it. But don’t join the dark side this earth hour, either. Join me in turning many lights on, in thankfulness for the wealth I have and can share with others less fortunate.