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A woman for president

August 3, 2016 by Andrea Mrozek 3 Comments

Sure, I’d take a woman for president, provided it’s the right woman. However, I agree with Barbara Kay here. Hillary Clinton is not that woman. Plus, it’s really counter-productive to think in terms of voting for a politician because they are fill-in-the-blank minority.

Either you think Hillary’s ascension would represent a momentous shattering of a glass ceiling it is high time was shattered, or you think what would have been a big deal in 1990 is a big yawn today. I’m in the latter camp. It would be a first in the U.S., to be sure, but so what? Never mind Thatcher and Golda Meir; there have been women prime ministers in India and Pakistan. And what good did that do the women of India and Pakistan? None, as far as I can tell, any more than Obama being the first black president did anything to heal the racial divide (and arguably contributed to its worsening).

(I disagree with Barbara that only a woman would think about stealing furniture or cutlery after serving in public office. I know of men who have stolen office furniture, and that’s the same idea.)

My big problem with Hillary is not her penchant for theft or lying but rather her extreme pro-abortion stance. Gone are the conciliatory, “conservative” days of safe, legal and rare.

In other news, I’m pleased to report that I am the first Canadian female of Czech-Polish heritage to have a women-only pro-life blog! Bring out the champagne. (There’s always champagne to be had if you narrow the parameters for winning.)

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A quick review of Hush

March 30, 2016 by Andrea Mrozek 2 Comments

I’m going to write more about this later. I saw Hush last night. Just quick this morning, let me give you the one word review. EXCELLENT.

It’s excellent. It’s a high quality, well-produced, extraordinarily thoughtful look at the possible physical and mental side effects of abortion for women.

It is near impossible to cut through the terrible din of people shouting about this issue. Near impossible, but this film may actually achieve a slight détente in the pro-life/pro-choice rhetoric. Indeed, that’s what it aims to do.

The film’s creator is herself pro-choice. So she comes to the issue asking questions. And she thoroughly researches the answers–giving respect to both sides in this dialogue of the deaf.

I’d say the biggest bombshell of the movie is the simple fact that major organizations like the National Cancer Institute have failed women. She was actually escorted out of the National Cancer Institute. She’s not a Michael Moore-style documentary maker–she’s thoughtful and respectful to abortion providers and pro-lifers throughout. That she was marched out spoke volumes to her, and to me too. Why not sit down and explain why there is no link between abortion and breast cancer, for example? They didn’t–so the film’s director Punam Kumar Gill  goes ahead and does her own research on the topic. What she finds is disquieting and compelling.

After the movie, there was a panel discussion. Three women shared about their abortions and the outcomes for them. Brave to do so. One of them suffered 11 miscarriages and has only one son today. Eleven miscarriages. So important to hear their stories.

I’m going to think about how to host a viewing and you should too. What they need is money. From their Facebook page:

Saturday, APRIL 16 –
the date for our most exciting Crowd Fund ‘Perk’ – the chance to watch a private screening of the film prior to any other release AND from the comfort of your own home! On Saturday April 16th (available for 24 hours that day) we encourage you to invite a group of friends or family to watch the film online, and start some healthy conversation! All you have to do is give a donation to the Hush crowd fund p…age (www.indiegogo.com/at/hushdoc), claim your perk, and you’ll get an email from us a few days in advance with the link and individualized password for the online event!

Limited discount price for this Live Stream event!
The first 100 people who click on the “Secret Perk” link below will get access to a $25 ticket to this Live Stream event. This Perk is only available here, to individuals on the Hush mailing list or followers of our Facebook page.
There are another 100 – $50 Sale tickets through the Indiegogo page, and unlimited tickets to this Live Screening for contributors at $100 or greater.

Help us hit our goal of getting 300 people in on this advanced screening!

I say let’s help them hit a goal of getting 3000 people in on the advanced screening.

There’s my slightly longer than one word review. An amazingly well put together documentary. I’m going to go out on a limb and say if anyone is criticizing it, they are doing so because they haven’t seen it.

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Sign a petition in support of Molly’s Law

March 24, 2016 by Andrea Mrozek 2 Comments

Just received the petition link and a succinct summary of the Molly Matters issue via email. Consider signing this petition, link below.

Have you heard about the new initiative to introduce “Cassie and Molly’s Law”?   Cassie was a pregnant woman who was six months along in her pregnancy. She was murdered, along with her unborn, but viable, daughter. This bill relates to the right to prosecute Cassie’s murderer for the death of the unborn child, Molly. It would protect pregnant women and their Choice from physical harm perpetrated by their family, boyfriend, etc.  I think this proposed law is one that both “pro-life” and “pro-choice” advocates could value and support. Cassie’s choice was to have her baby and that choice put her at risk.  Her choice, Molly, should have been respected and protected.

The Federal Government is giving us the chance to have our voices heard: https://petitions.parl.gc.ca/en/Petition/Sign/e-183

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Memorial to the victims of communism

February 16, 2016 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Mao,_Bulganin,_Stalin,_Ulbricht_TsedenbalIf you have thoughts on what this memorial in Ottawa should look like, today is the deadline to contribute them through this very short survey.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

 

 

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The power of mothers

February 11, 2016 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

The picture below has been making the rounds on social media with this caption:

An Iraqi girl in an orphanage – missing her mother, so she drew her and fell asleep inside her.”

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As it turns out the photo is staged.

Why is this such an effective photograph?

I think it conveys something powerful about the family, particularly about the relationship between mothers and children.

I think it also conveys that mothers are safe spaces–they provide love through physical and spiritual strength and protection.

And in this one photo, we can better understand why the abortion issue is so controversial.

With abortion, this quasi-sacred mother-child relationship is in play. Women who abort likely are at least subconsciously aware that they are mothers at the time of the abortion and afterwards. Because pro-life or pro-choice, this relationship with our mothers is an important and valuable one, on which we rely over the course of our lives. Because little children should be, in a perfect world, protected by their mothers. When we as pro-lifers chastise abortion, we may in fact be reminding women who have had abortions, in the deepest and most profound recesses of their heart, that they failed.

So this photo–as art–captures a lot of emotion.

It reminds me to tread carefully in just how I choose to oppose abortion.

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How decisions are made these days

January 28, 2016 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

In the case of legalizing marijuana, it has long been my opinion that legalization would happen for the revenue potential.

I wish I had written this down before this article came out. I could have been heralded as a wise pundit.

TheHouse

 

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All the things Planned Parenthood said they didn’t do

July 21, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

Yikes. Keep the stings coming:

A second video allegedly showing a senior Planned Parenthood official negotiating for fetal tissue and fetal parts for profit has been released.

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What’s worse than a one-child policy?

July 15, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

A two-child policy. Seriously, people. We need to get over the overpopulation myth.

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#No2Trudeau Campaign

March 19, 2015 by Faye Sonier 7 Comments

As many readers of this blog know, Liberal party leader Justin Trudeau stated this past year that his MPs must fall into line, and vote pro-choice on any bills or motions that cross their desks. Freedom of conscience for his MPs was tossed to the side in favour of a rather radical pro-choice position. I’ve written on this issue several times in the last few years.

Oh democratic and human rights. I miss you.

Anyway, in response to his decision and in anticipation of the upcoming federal election, Campaign Life Coalition Youth and the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform have lauched the #No2Trudeau campaign. You can learn about the campaign here:

The 2015 federal election presents the pro-life movement with a tremendous opportunity in Canada. For the first time ever, we have in Justin Trudeau a leader that we must unify against given that he’s unambiguously and vocally pro-abortion, supportive of the so-called “right to die,” and opposes the government’s anti-prostitution legislation which attempts to combat human trafficking to keep women safer. Justin Trudeau has declared that there is no choice but pro-“choice” in the Liberal party of Canada, forcing Members of Parliament in his caucus to vote down any legislation restricting abortion, regardless of their conscience or their beliefs. This does not just impact pro-life MPs and members of the Liberal Party, it also impacts the majority of Canadians who feel that abortion should be subject to at least some restrictions. Justin Trudeau is not only an extremist on the abortion issue, he is also forcing the Liberal Party to join him in his extremism.

There’s a good chance that Jonathon and Alissa are coming to a city near you to speak. Check out their tour schedule here. They’ll be in Ottawa May 9th.

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In Ontario’s sex education, it’s hidden in plain sight

February 26, 2015 by Johanne Brownrigg 2 Comments

Canada’s capital is undertaking one of the biggest infrastructure projects in its history: Light Rail Transit. As expected costs have been climbing. They are now reportedly over two billion. Yet this enormous, world class taxpayer-funded project has no public washrooms along the route factored into its design or its budget. That’s right. Until the GottaGo campaign pointed this out to the citizenry in the nation’s capital, this colossal oversight was hidden in plain view.

First came the obvious jokes on the subject, then some media acknowledgement and then the public became engaged. As the news became known, most people were quite surprised that this was deliberately left out and continues to be left out. How can the plan focus only on getting people somewhere without considering their needs? It took a middle-aged, keen-eye woman to point out the reality of LRT as it would be experienced in everyday life, once the whole project would be completed.

Can we turn to ordinary folk to see what other lofty plans look like in the cold harsh light of reality? Well, let’s discuss the expertly designed sex education curriculum in Ontario.

Parents have expressed serious reservations about how the curriculum will have a pre-ordained roll out of sexually charged information. This is not a biology lesson in reproduction with all the wonders of the human body explained appropriately at reasonable ages. It is not the health lesson explaining STIs. Parents are not objecting with having lessons on cyber bullying or on why not to sext.

The sex-ed program, introduces concepts like gender fluidity at a grade 3 level, meaning that having a vagina doesn’t make you a girl. It is one that will talk about masturbation and facilitate the how-to discussion for 11-year-old boys and girls.

This incredible change has naturally upset many parents. The more they know, the more they object.

What has escaped the experts in their deliberations, their plans and their purpose is the reality of the classroom. How can the plan focus only on getting people somewhere without considering the reality involved in getting there?

Do these experts pre-suppose that the classroom is a static, orderly academic environment in grade school and through high school so that lectures and lessons can be given with a quasi-university seriousness? Well, parents know that there are some children who still wet their beds in grade three. There are children who believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. There are autistic and other special needs children in class rooms who contribute to the dynamic of a class room and to the work of a teacher. Every day, there are teachers in those classrooms who are working with children who have found out today, that mom is leaving or dad isn’t coming back. Or that someone is dying. Teachers are incorporating healthy eating and exercising with saving the planet. They are recycling, reviewing, re-teaching, reminding and let’s not forget, re-acting to those in their charge. Teaching is an exhausting and demanding profession that most of us stand in awe of.

But it is not parenting. It is a complementary role. It is a necessary role. Good parents and good teachers, for the most part, are grateful for each other.

Still for too long, there have been teachers in both the Catholic and Public Boards, who have taken it upon themselves to educate their students away from their family’s values. They have anointed themselves saviours in the battle for the heart not just the mind of their students. In the hands of these teachers, many parents are extremely concerned about the sex ed curriculum that repeatedly encourages students to talk to a trusted peer or adult but never mentions talking to their parents.

So we have a shiny newly designed modern sex-education curriculum in Ontario. Eventually, more parents will recognize this curriculum’s built-in lack of parental discernment for this sensitive and mature subject. Eventually they will recognize the complete disrespect experts have for the parental role.

Parental awareness may not increase through a large public rally. It may not happen through a petition signing blitz. It will happen when the cement has dried on this public education project. One day the work will be accidently brought home or the topic brought up while tucking a child in with the bedtime kiss. Then, once again, a middle-aged mom (or dad) will see what has been hidden in plain sight. By then however, will the cost have been too high?

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