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Launching People for the Ethical Treatment of People

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ProWomanProLife is proud to introduce a brand new line of T-shirts:

People for the Ethical Treatment of People

Read our press release, here. 

And buy a shirt, here.

These comfortable, cotton, ladies’ tees are ready for the ordering; a subtle pro-life message that hammers home our main point without ever saying the dreaded “A-word”.  

The story: At some point I realized our culture has a higher level of sympathy for animals and the environment than we do for women and babies. And at a different point I realized I would wear a T-shirt in defence of women and life, but there were none on the market I’d even consider. ProWomanProLife has now rectified this egregious situation.

Buy a T-shirt for 25 dollars, taxes and shipping included, and make a pro-woman, pro-life statement without saying a word.

A note for men: Yes, these are ladies tees. However, drop us a line/send us a comment if you are interested and we’ll be quick to launch PET-P T-shirts (spoken as if you were saying “pet-peeve”) for men.

Act now – protect freedom of conscience for health care professionals

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Or at least, try to. Here’s what this is about:

On January 20, 2009, President Bush implemented regulations that would protect health care workers who refuse to participate in abortion-related activities from discrimination. President Obama and his Department of Health and Human Services have published their intent to overturn these regulations. The regulations are intended to educate health care professionals, as well as the general public, about the rights of medical personnel to treat their patients in accordance with their conscience, free from discrimination or intimidation. They also give health care professionals a way to press charges in the event that they experience discrimination. By law the Obama Administration must leave a 30 day period open for the public to comment on his repeal of the right of conscience. Please write into the Department of Health and Human Service today and tell them that you oppose discrimination on account of conscience!

The link above gives you a form you can complete and email, voicing your concerns. Please consider doing so.

Personal courage and constitutional crises

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When Luxembourg voted to legalize euthanasia, the Grand Duke Henri refused to sign it into law.

So their parliament promptly voted to give him a purely ceremonial role. Fine.

I still say it is a testimony to personal courage that a man would risk his position and power to oppose a bad law.

This is what I look for, by the way, in Canadian leaders. A glimmer of hope that somewhere they have personal convictions that they are willing to stand on. It’s rare (see how Morgentaler sailed through the Order of Canada process with most of our elite) but it does still exist, as the Grand Duke Henri shows.

I’ll also add this: The beauty of religious types is that they don’t seek earthly power–making them much more free to conduct themselves with integrity. I believe that as faith increases, so does freedom, and fear decreases, too. This counter-cultural perspective rarely hits the media, but I see it in faithful people all around me.

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Brigitte’s head is spinning: Wow, is that what “convictions” look like? One rarely sees any…

Only people are people

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This is an old story. Still, I was unaware of just how much damage the chimp did:

Herold hit the animal with a shovel and then stabbed him with a kitchen knife several times but could not stop him. She then called 911 for help, explaining that Travis had ripped off Nash’s face. (Nash’s injuries were so severe that initially she was assumed to be a man.)

Could it be there is a pro-chimp media bias, to diminish the nature of his crime? “Ripping off someone’s face” sounds pretty bad to me.

I also link to this because the point that only people are people is one worth making. Stay tuned for more on this point…

“One in four pregnancies in Israel ends in abortion”

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The Central Bureau of Statistics recently released data that showed there were 117,000 Jewish births in Israel in 2008.
The number of abortions in Israel for the same year is estimated to be over 40,000. Thus in 2008, of the approximately 160,000 pregnancies in Israel, 120,000 led to births and 40,000 (one in four) ended in abortion.

Given the increasing number of religious Jews in Israel, who have significantly higher birthrates than their secular counterparts, this means that the number of pregnancies ending in abortion amongst secular Jews in Israel is radically higher.  Mass abortion is tragic in any context, for any people.  But there is something especially bitter about this – there are too many people who consider Jewish lives to be disposable, and it’s heartbreaking that the behaviour of so many Jewish women places just as little value on the life of a Jewish baby as does the basest antisemite.

Happy St. Patrick’s day

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Brigitte adds: Brings a tear to the eye, doesn’t it. To say nothing of what it does to the ear… But that’s par for the course today. Happy Green Beer Day!

Really?

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“Women should thank men for everything they have“? Really. 

Just as I am wary of women who won’t work with men, who believe all men are part of an evil patriarchy and those who believe they are better than men and deserve special treatment…I am equally wary of men like this writer. 

What I’m going for in male-female relationships is not a pendulum that swings from crazy to crazy, but something slightly more even. If a woman wrote this about men, I’d tell her to untie her knickers. I think I’d give the same advice to this gentleman.

UofC pro-life club goes to court today

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 U of C students charged with trespassing on their own campus go to court this morning.  Today at 8:30am, Calgary lawyer Stephen Jenuth will be entering a “not guilty” plea on behalf of the six members of Campus Pro-Life (CPL) who have been charged with trespass….

Students plan to set up the display on campus again next week, March 25 and 26, continuing with their established practise of engaging their fellow peers in debate each semester.

There’s a strong woman…

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Judge’s wife serves up justice

And not only that, she’s getting a whole new set of designer pans!

Chef Emeril Lagasse says he felt so bad when he heard a woman lost one of his trademark pans while warding off home intruders that he’s replacing the item.
Lagasse is sending 70-year-old Ellen Basinski a whole new set of his signature cookware.

[h/t Blazing Cat Fur]

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