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Unborn victim didn’t exist

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My grandson was murdered, says Mary Talbot in today’s Ottawa Citizen.

Joyce Arthur of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada offers up a “there, there, Mary.”

While we deeply sympathize with them and understand their wish, it must be recognized that victims of violence are not those who should be making decisions about justice in a democratic society. Appropriate laws and penalties must be determined by impartial parties who do not allow emotion or personal bias to colour their decisions…

I think it’s fair to say this: Arthur says she sympathizes with Talbot, and somewhere, somehow, that may be true. But Arthur is also the author of Fetus Focus Fallacy and where Talbot knows she had a grandson, Arthur thinks she had a fetus, and furthermore, that we ought not to focus on that. 

As for “impartial parties informing the laws,” I’ll assume that means we’ll be rescinding the Morgentaler decision. And that he, and all pro-abortion groups, will be giving up their fight in New Brunswick in short order.

The bottom line: Arthur sees only one victim here and can’t really sympathise with Mary Talbot at all, as a result. And that would be due to her own lack of impartiality.

The Oscars tonight

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Juno‘s up for a couple of Oscars. Flogging a dead horse, here’s yet another analysis of how/why/I just don’t get it could the characters in Knocked Up and Juno not have an abortion? 

Both women are intelligent, independent, savvy, and urbane. One is an ambitious career woman, the other a wisecracking high schooler. So, how is it that neither really considers abortion as a viable alternative to carrying a fetus to term?

Um, here’s the answer for ya: Because they are intelligent, independent, savvy and urbane. Seriously.

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Véronique adds: My favorite part was:

In the contexts of both films, all roads for our pregnant women lead to the abortion clinic. This is not an ideological analysis, it is rational one, it is what both of these characters, as they have been written, would do.

So much for choice.

How can it be right if it feels so wrong?

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A translation of a short article published in yesterday’s La Presse:

Julie, in her early thirties, should have given birth to her third child in the middle of winter. Instead, she went to the hospital in the fall. Her daughter was born but never lived…

You think miscarriage or premature delivery followed by death. But the article continues:

Faced with a pessimistic diagnosis, Julie and her husband decided to end the pregnancy after 5 months. While she is certain she made the right decision, Julie is nonetheless overcome by a profound distress…

No kidding. This is turning the old “How can it be wrong if it feels so right?” on its head. Please help me find other examples of right decisions causing profound distress because as things are now, I feel like abortion activists have successfully taken over the minds of Canadians.

That nagging feeling of distress, could it possibly be your conscience telling you that terminating a disabled life was likely a selfish decision based on your needs rather than compassion for the child?

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Andrea adds: The Thought Police have been out and at ’em…for years… “Your decision is right, your decision is right. Because it was your choice and it was therefore right. And abortion is a right. And right. Thank you for listening and please don’t reflect on any profound distress you may be feeling.”  (This decades-long public service announcement is brought to you by assorted pro-abortion groups.)    

The ultimate goal

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Tanya, a contributor to our Comments page wrote in response to my post on criminalization. Her comment:

“Even though the criminalization of abortion is not, for you, an immediate goal, the question begs to be asked; is it not reasonable to have its criminalization as an eventual goal?

Let’s parallel this human rights issue (abortion) with another one from another era, when William Wilburforce first introduced a bill to criminalize the slave trade. He was ridiculed and success seemed far off. He was always up-front with his ultimate goal. Through creative and gradual measures, by more means than simply introducing his annual bill, his goal was eventually realized.

I understand that there is much to accomplish in the mentality and practices of Canadians before a legal ban on abortion would even be beneficial. However, I would hope that every person who speaks out for the right for the unborn would have as an ultimate goal that these tiny humans’ rights be held up as equal to our own.

The point is well taken. Arguing against criminalization from a fetal rights’ perspective offers no wiggle-room and I can be accused of taking the easy way out by avoiding the question altogether. Either the fetus is a human being and deserves the same protection from harm as other human beings, or fetuses are not human and have no claim to a protected right to life and integrity. The third option, well described on our Comments page by Dave, involves getting into philosophical contortions to justify killing some human non-persons in a discourse reminiscent of 19th century slavery rhetoric. Our dismal historic track record in deciding who – or what – is human suggests that we should stop the circus act and recognize that determining humanity based on human-made criteria has embarrassed more than one civilization. Will our treatment of the unborn shame us in a few generations? I have no doubt about it, particularly in light the demographic decline of Western civilizations.

I do think criminalization is the ultimate goal. But I also think that it will happen naturally as mentalities change to recognize the humanity of the fetus. Our role as pro-lifers is not, in my view, to push for criminalization but to change mentalities. If mentalities change, criminalization will naturally follow. The same cannot be said about the reverse.

Legal abortion kills woman, age 30

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This ought to be front page news in every paper across the globe.

Emma Beck’s suicide note read as follows:

Living is hell for me. I should never have had an abortion…I see now I would have been a good mum. I told everyone I didn’t want to do it, even at the hospital…

In February the following year, the night before her 31st birthday, Miss Beck hanged herself at her home in Helston.

This is not the first time I have heard a woman tell her story and say that she told the abortionist she did not want an abortion. It is in fact probably closer to the tenth time. I’m starting to understand how choice-friendly these people are. What part of “I don’t want to do this” don’t they understand?

But I got to hear the other women say it live, instead of reading it in a suicide note.

I wrote about the increased risk of depression, suicide, suicide ideation and mental health episodes the result of abortion here. It’s a link becoming increasingly clear to just about everyone who cares enough to see it. And this, unfortunately, does not include most of those groups advocating for “women’s rights,” who insist on castigating the evidence as part of a pro-life conspiracy.

May Emma Beck rest in peace. 

Order of Canada clear for 2008

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Phewf. Dr. Henry Morgentaler will not be on the Order of Canada list for 2008. Good news.

But my letter was already written, so I thought I might as well post it. As a friend said recently, never miss a chance to express your opinion.

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Brigitte wonders: Missing a chance to express your opinion? What’s that like?

Has anyone seen a line lately?

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This article by Mark Steyn is excellent but I certainly believe something is missing. It’s awfully difficult to “hold the line” against Muslim extremism when there isn’t one. (And I’ve been looking for a while now. Next step, an ad in the papers… SWF seeks cultural, western civilizational line to have and to hold, til death do us part.)

So let’s talk alarm, shall we? One area where North Americans are alarmed is that many Muslims fail to believe in “reproductive choice.” Women’s rights types would be more than happy to confer on Muslim women their ideas on how and when women can exercise said choices. A safe and legal termination–now there’s your answer to severe birth defects.

So can we bring immigrants round to our way? I sure hope not.  

When we accept abortion on demand, which we most assuredly have, then truly, we can afford to be unperplexed by just about everything else. When dismembering a fetus limb from limb results in exclamations of “We need choices!” there’s a problem. And that is most often the reaction in my social circles, when abortion comes up at all. It’s a miracle my friends still invite me back. (But thanks to this site, I’m less of a downer at parties. No need to wax on about societal decline orally when you can do it in writing.)

I take great comfort in knowing that history moves in many directions. Onwards and upwards, pro-life people! “Hold, hooooold…” Those are probably my favourite two words from any movie. (Gladiator)

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Andrea is feeling particularly alarmist today: Who can you count on to hold the line? Probably not these folks.

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Véronique adds: Makes it awfully hard to take the moral high ground with regard to polygamy I’d say. So polygamy is generally perceived as bad for women but poly living, now, that’s liberation!

The conspiracy files

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It’s important to be aware of emerging threats. Read about the “medical right” here and their dangerous use of The Ultrasound. (Da da da… that was three notes of scary music.)

An interesting and immediate contradiction emerges:

…[The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice] describes the anti-abortion movement’s multimillion-dollar immersion into the non-medical use of ultrasound equipment and questions the ethics of using medical diagnostic technology to persuade women to continue a pregnancy. Lost in the craze for non-medical ultrasound imagery is the potential risk to the developing fetus…

Speaking of “potential risks” there’s this thing called abortion, which proves to be a potential risk to many a developing fetus.

But still, I’d like our readers to be aware of how dangerous The Ultrasound can be. Sometimes its use reveals a baby alive and kicking in there.

In the next edition of the conspiracy files, we’ll show how some doctors recommend women my age and stage take folic acid even when they are not yet pregnant. Certainly implies that I should be pregnant-a nefarious plot to force women to have babies. Stay tuned.

Women who know too much

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This article isn’t meant to make you sad, but that’s what I felt after reading it.

…today’s young women are questioning abortion not because they know too little, but because they know too much. They have paid the price for the modern feminist embrace of counterfeit liberation…

Yes, we all know too much. So perhaps my feminist “foremothers” will forgive me if I don’t thank them for bestowing on me a false notion of equality, an “equality,” they themselves, in many cases, never had to experience.

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