Archives for April 2010

I sound dogmatic, yes. Dogmatic with a pinch of winsome? Come on. We all know abortion is wrong. And immoral is just another word for wrong:

On the other side, for those who consider abortion immoral, no boundaries are absolute enough. “If I ever found myself on the Hill advocating for a reduction in abortion time limits from 24 weeks to 22 or whatever, that I can’t stomach, [and] that’s where the debate is at in so many places in this world,” says Andrea Mrozek. It’s why she founded Ottawa-based ProWomanProLife, an advocacy group that seeks to end abortion without relying on laws that are, she believes, always problematic.

I also started PWPL to represent all the women currently chiming in over here. Sounds like there’s tremendous support for defunding this particular form of birth control… And for a women’s march. Hmmmm….

Perhaps the saddest story I’ve heard in a long, long time. How come nobody noticed anything?

In order to violate them so consistently, you kinda have to have some idea what they look like. That’s the only justification I can think of for this:

NEW YORK — Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged “immodest.”

So of course I went over to this fine pro-woman site to see what they had to say about that. Here it is, in full:

I’m sure they’ll get around to it. Any minute now.

A good idea. Though of course everyone hopes it will never be used.

Welcome, Judith Timson! Welcome to my world. For years and years the government has funded abortions, supplied abortions, paid for them (since I started paying taxes) with my money. It wasn’t done in my name. And frankly, I don’t love the blood on my hands. In fact, this group was started so that women like you wouldn’t be the only ones to stand up at the time of the Morgentaler anniversary, to make a claim of “victory for women’s rights” as if you spoke for women everywhere. See, here’s the problem. You and your friends have been purportedly “representing” me in politics and the public square for quite some time. But you never did. It was frustrating, yes. So when you write this:

Here is a political question that for me, just won’t go away: In exactly whose name has the Harper government decided to withhold funds for access to safe abortion in their international maternal and child health initiative? Not in my name. And not in the names of countless Canadians who have relied for years on safe access to the procedure at government expense.

…I say, how do you like them apples?

Certainly, I’m glad you have a column, Judith, and can express yourself. You’re welcome to that. The point of this post is simply to highlight that for my entire life a pro-abortion status quo has been forced on me, pushing me to agree to some sort of “women’s right” that doesn’t exist.

Not in my name. Not in my name.

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Brigitte adds: Not in my name.

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Tanya adds: No, not in my name, either.

A colleague just posted a link to this story with the comment New “Wuss in a Can!” Guys: If you see this, run the other way, OK? It’s true that girls want their man to understand them better, but there are limits.

Researchers in Germany sprayed oxytocin in the noses of 24 men and then showed them emotionally charged images of a crying child, a girl hugging her cat and a grieving man.

Their reactions were compared with those of men who had not received the spray.

The empathy expressed by the men who had been sprayed with oxytocin was so high it was on a par with what would normally be expected of women.

Oxytocin is a hormone released to trigger labour in pregnant women and also helps bonding with the newborn child.

It has been called the cuddle hormone or the trust hormone as it is released at orgasm.

The study, published by the University of Bonn in the Journal of Neuroscience, is the first to suggest oxytocin is also important for feelings of empathy.

Oxytocin sprays are being sold commercially on the internet.

Peter Gabriel believes in abortion. In particular for victims of rape in a country where abortion is illegal, apparently. Watch this video, and learn what it looks like to speak on a topic you know absolutely nothing about. I’m not trying to be mean, but when famous people weigh in on The Issues, they have a special way of sounding like they just descended to earth from another planet.

That said, time to get a little hypocritical. What the pro-life side needs is a famous person, Bono perhaps?–to stand up and defend life consistently. Any takers?

Dilbert does.

So, um, not wanting to fund abortions abroad as part of a renewed effort to improve maternal health in third world countries amounts to a “no sex” approach to foreign policy?

Wow. Does that mean sex and pregnancy are sometimes related? I had no idea…

Heart and Stroke Foundation has an ad showing off the research they do. It shows a baby on a monitor, in utero. Voice says heart disease strikes both young and old, as the camera does a close up of the baby in utero. You can hear the baby’s heart pounding, and the visual is the 3D ultrasound.

The closing line is: “Saving babies lives, before they’re even born.” Gave me shivers. A very cool ad. And if a pro-life group ran it, the Advertising Standards Council would drag them before some commission, fine them, and force it off the air.