A ten minute discussion with Brian Lilley about Trump’s statements on abortion, Trudeau compelling his caucus to be pro-choice, PEI opening up the island to abortion and other aspects of the abortion debate in Canada and in the United States.
Starts at about the 21 minute mark of the podcast.
Here’s the trailer to a new documentary about euthanasia in Belgium that will be released in June 2016.
[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcbGK2tTvsI]
Some would call this fear mongering. I think rationally once you believe killing is treatment, and you see certain categories of people availing themselves of this treatment, you can’t help but shift in your thinking that all people who fall in those categories must want to die. Hence the friendly offer to kill the disabled child as is already the case when babies are born who look differently, who, to some “should have been aborted.”
The panic is temporary. The fear is temporary. The crisis is temporary. The days when you wake up thinking “how did I make such a huge mistake” are so few in retrospect.
You have nine months for all that, but then it gets good. Still difficult, don’t get me wrong, but so so good…
By now it should be obvious to all that I am no fan of abortion. But perhaps the biggest reason why is because it sidelines the strength women have and capitalizes on panic and fear. Whoever, on any issue at all, said that fear is a good reason to do something? And most abortions are done for that reason: Fear of a future a woman can’t see or yet understand, fear of a lack of finances, fear of what people will think, etc. etc. etc. The fear is temporary, the strength is permanent. This is why helping women find strength to carry on in face of a crisis is an act of compassion.
“My ‘ideology’ is therefore pro-scientific research that is untainted by political correctness, and pro-informed consent. But our culture can’t seem to get beyond the “rights” aspect of abortion into the “data” aspect.” –Barbara Kay
Great article. And I can’t wait to see the documentary, Hush.
Punam Kumar Gill, Director of the film Hush
I have never argued that abortion is the only social problem we have. Or even the worst social problem we have. That said, it’s a terrible problem, a blight on a compassionate, democratic country, that we would accept abortion, even embrace it as a “solution.”
So why don’t people see it as such? Lea Singh explains. She leaves us with a question though:
Breaking the mass hypnosis is an urgent need. But how? I am not quite sure.
When I pitched this piece to the Post, I told them, truthfully, that I did not want to write about this Planned Parenthood debacle in the USA. It started in July and I avoided writing about it, until now. I felt compelled when I saw Planned Parenthood Ottawa using depravity to raise funds.
Hopefully the general public in Canada is starting to get a better idea of why Planned Parenthood donations might diminish. BTW, for the reader who is aghast and reading this for the first time, Planned Parenthood does not contest the videos, the veracity of the videos or the fact that they sell human parts. They only contest that they make profit by it. Which is the part that would get them in trouble with the law. Whereas the rest of it is merely deeply troubling.
BTW, many are asking me, how do we know Planned Parenthood in Canada doesn’t do the same thing? They don’t have clinics, is why. They can refer to private clinics and hospitals. They can support their USA counterpart from the sidelines–which they do–but without the clinical capacity to do abortions, they can’t actually sell human body parts/babies/beating hearts. That’s my understanding at this point. If anyone has capacity to correct, feel free. What we don’t know is whether private abortion clinics and/or hospitals are engaging in this practice.
Why specifically now would Planned Parenthood donations diminish? This a question they would rather let fade into obscurity.
On July 28, a group calling themselves the Center for Medical Progress began releasing the results of an investigative sting operation into the practices of Planned Parenthood south of the border. Two actors, posing as buyers of organs for research purposes, took undercover video purportedly showing that Planned Parenthood in the United States engages in the sale of fetal hearts, livers, kidneys and heads (“calvarium”) for profit.
The video evidence, all of which is available in full online, shows Planned Parenthood executives in different states discussing fetal organs with infinitely less concern than your auto mechanic discusses car parts.
Quotes include one Planned Parenthood director, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, saying, “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver … so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.” This while drinking a glass of wine and munching on a salad.
Additional videos show Planned Parenthood lab techs showing off bloody body parts — little legs, hands and arms — to the actors posing as buyers, declaring when it was “another boy” or a twin. The discussion of financial benefits is frequent and forthcoming, with one Planned Parenthood exec saying that “she wants a Lamborghini.”
Are times ever so tough that the body parts of aborted fetuses should go up for sale?
Lauren Dobson-Hughes is the President of Planned Parenthood Ottawa, concerned that donations are going down. Here’s why they might.
~After I discussed the matter with Sean Hannity on Fox News last week, I got a barrage of abuse from abortion absolutists with a familiar talking point: abortions are “only three per cent” of what Planned Parenthood does. This statistic is very curiously formulated: The group said that abortions account for three per cent of the 10.9m services its provides in nearly 700 clinics.
Even if you know what that actually means, the correct response is: So what? Do American liberals listen to what they’re saying: What percentage of a business model does selling baby parts have to be for it to disturb you? Any murderer could make the same defense: Murderers actually spend very little time murdering. For 99.99 per cent of the time Major Hasan was providing psychiatric services to US military personnel, and standing on the table, opening fire and yelling “Allahu Akbar!” was only 0.01 per cent of his business model. So what?
That dentist in Minnesota everyone wants to string up: C’mon, give the guy a break. Ninety-seven percent of his time is devoted to cavities and root canals. The lion-killing portion of his schedule is minimal.
If you were told that the fellow at the convenience store devotes 97 per cent of his time to selling groceries and gasoline but once in a while he likes to go down to the seedy part of town, chop up a hooker and leave the pieces in a trunk at the airport, but don’t worry, it’s only three per cent of what he does, would you still want to buy a quart of milk from the guy? American liberals say: What’s the problem? They’re so used to looking the other way, they’ve immobilized their moral compass.
Steyn’s caption: “Senator Harry Reid and taxpayer-funded baby-parts mogul Cecile Richards.”
Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada has not warned you that their sister organization in the United States is currently embroiled in a ghoulish controversy involving the sale of preborn baby hearts, brains, lungs, kidneys, livers, and whatever other tissue they can sell.
Watch this. From the Center for Medical Progress.
Does Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada have any connection with the American organization? Regardless, they share a name. Will they stand up and condemn this?
Where there are human parts there are human beings. These macabre episodes from the Center for Medical Progress show that. For so long pro-choicers have claimed the fetal pictures are false.
We need to put an end to this and by “this,” I mean abortion.
[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=333&v=Xw2xi9mhmuo]
Nonetheless, I still say it should be made over the counter:
All this said, yes, please do make the Pill over the counter. Perhaps when it sits beside Tylenol on a drugstore shelf, advocacy groups will stop yammering on about how the Pill is a major component of women’s rights. Or that it is patronizing when doctors show concern. Perhaps then we will stop targeting excellent doctors who won’t prescribe it for very good reasons.
Which gets interpreted by Huff Post commentators as meaning I want to reduce access to all contraception. If you are pro-woman and pro-life, please feel free to leave a reasonable comment, for or against the Pill (so that Huff Post folks can misinterpret and distort what you say, sigh.)
