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You don’t need to be pro-life to donate to the Faith and Freedom Alliance, through which John Carpay, a Calgary-based lawyer, can continue to defend the rights of pro-lifers to voice their views on campus as he has done so effectively in the past.

Here’s a recent Interim interview with John.

Those interested in supporting campus free speech should make a cheque payable to “Faith and Freedom Alliance” and mail it to John Carpay.

If you read this blog, you already knew about the link between abortion and subsequent preterm delivery. It’s information worth repeating.

Consider this: Linda Gibbons is in jail for talking on a city street. That would shock people, except Linda Gibbons is sitting in jail for talking to women outside an abortion clinic. Which apparently then fails to raise even an eyebrow. I’m liking her more and more:

She has never spoken at any of her court appearances, believing silence is part of her protest for the “voicelessness of the unborn,” a supporter, Father Tony Van Hee, explained.

The ”temporary injunction” that holds Linda Gibbons in jail is a severe encroachment on our freedom of movement and freedom of speech. What if 10 or 100 young women all moved into that bubble zone? Would they throw us all in jail? I’m considering testing it. Let’s see how far they want to take this.

I missed this, but caught the letters section in the Globe today which pointed me back to this interview with Camille Paglia. A great read. Love this part:  

Then feminism came along and decided greatness was a conspiracy foisted on us by men. People would criticize me by saying, “She’s writing about Michelangelo when the really important person was this woman….” But wait. There’s no way she came up to Michelangelo’s ankle. So what we’re getting now is people who never heard of Michelangelo or Leonardo because they are dead white males. 

Today’s letters section has Camille Paglia clarifying that no, she doesn’t think all of York University is a backwater, but that

The York coterie whom I did indeed call “shallow” were snide, simpering postmodernists, a parasitic infestation of servile acolytes of a sterile ideology that continues to plague many Anglo-American universities.

I plan on memorizing this: “snide, simpering postmodernists, a parasitic infestation of servile acolytes of a sterile ideology” for the next run in with the York student union over pro-life clubs. Or any student union for that matter.

Around the 13 minute and 30 second mark, a good segment, here.

Dilbert does.

Expulsion from UofC for students who put up a display? Come on.

John Carpay of the Canadian Justice Foundation, a group which defends freedom of speech, has been providing legal help to the students. He said the move by the university seems to be an attempt to intimidate and appears to be in retaliation to the trespassing charges being dropped. “Bullying? Absolutely,” Carpay said. “These students are being singled out because of their viewpoint for setting up a peaceful, passive display on campus which has been set up there several times since 2006 and it’s always been without incident.”

A poll of Canadian values presented at the Manning Centre conference did surprise me, but here you go, these are the results:

On moral issues, Canadians are more socially conservative than most of us would be led to believe. 89% of respondents strongly agreed with the statement “nothing is more important than family.” 67% strongly agreed that, by definition, “marriage is between a man and a woman.” And 60% strongly agree that abortion is morally wrong.

At the same time, only 31% feel government should play a major role regulating individual behaviour and morality, and there is a pretty even split (46%:50%) on the role of government in preserving the moral fabric of society.

After everything was over at the conference, I went out with a family friend. I told him about the poll. He scoffed and immediately, and much to my embarrassment, took a poll of one by asking the waiter if he agreed that marriage should be between one man and one woman. To which the waiter replied, “No (pause) and if I did I wouldn’t tell you.”

But perhaps he would tell a pollster anonymously? Anyway, interesting results.

In our abortion-friendly culture, “pro-life” information tends to be suppressed. A great column in the Post today about how abortion harms maternal and infant health:

Why has Poland made such strides in improving both maternal and infant health? Certainly not by spending a lot of money on “reproductive health services,” to use the preferred euphemism. Poland is a poor country, much poorer than either Canada or its immediate European neighbours. The money simply isn’t there for any lavish program to improve maternal and infant health. The only change that could have produced such a dramatic improvement is the documented decline in the induced abortion rate.

This is one of those difficult situations where telling the truth strikes people as lies, because we’ve all believed a lie for so long. That lie being that abortion helps and protects women.

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Just noticed this: Another thoughtful letter on women’s health as it pertains to abortion abroad, this time, looking at El Salvador.

CBC Radio 1′s arts, culture and entertainment magazine Q is advertising a debate on the upcoming Super Bowl’s pro-life ad. Now, I am not naive enough to believe that the outcome of this debate will somehow support the broadcasting of said ad. Although you could potentially support freedom of expression without supporting the anti-abortion sentiment. I mean, it is theoretically possible. You know, along the lines of Voltaire’s attributed:

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Anyhow. Q is having a debate and a debate suggests debaters. Does this mean that someone on the CBC will support the broadcasting of the pro-life ad, thus challenging everything pro-abortion? It remains to be seen. Come on CBC, astonish me! Looking forward to hear it.