So, um, not wanting to fund abortions abroad as part of a renewed effort to improve maternal health in third world countries amounts to a “no sex” approach to foreign policy?
Wow. Does that mean sex and pregnancy are sometimes related? I had no idea…
Heart and Stroke Foundation has an ad showing off the research they do. It shows a baby on a monitor, in utero. Voice says heart disease strikes both young and old, as the camera does a close up of the baby in utero. You can hear the baby’s heart pounding, and the visual is the 3D ultrasound.
The closing line is: “Saving babies lives, before they’re even born.” Gave me shivers. A very cool ad. And if a pro-life group ran it, the Advertising Standards Council would drag them before some commission, fine them, and force it off the air.
Baby boy survives almost two days after abortion.
A baby boy abandoned by doctors to die after a botched abortion was found alive nearly two days later.
The 22-week infant later died in intensive care at a hospital in the mother’s home town of Rossano in southern Italy.
The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled.
He was discovered alive the following day – some 20 hours after the operation – by Father Antonio Martello, the hospital chaplain, who had gone to pray beside his body.
He found that the baby, wrapped in a sheet with his umbilical cord still attached, was moving and breathing.
The priest raised the alarm and doctors immediately arranged for the infant to be taken to a specialist neonatal unit at a neighbouring hospital where he died on Monday morning.
“G8 backs maternal aid despite abortion row.”
The world’s leading industrialized nations support a Canadian proposal to boost maternal health in the Third World, even though Ottawa refuses to fund groups that perform or advocate abortions, Canada’s aid minister said on Wednesday.
To repeat: Does ANYONE think the ONLY thing we could do abroad to help improve maternal health and child mortality is fund abortions? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
An interesting column on that whole sex-ed thing by Barbara Kay. I especially like this bit:
Human beings are the only creatures for whom shame, guilt and modesty (especially in girls) are instinctive. We are also the only creatures who assign certain behaviours to the realm of the private, and certain to the realm of the public.
Schools are by nature an artificial construct. They were designed to transmit objective knowledge about subjects that are amenable to collective learning: literacy, numeracy, history, scientific data and the arts.
Sexuality is different. When children of both sexes absorb information from a relative stranger about deeply private feelings and behaviours in a group environment — when the private is made public — they are being co-opted into a rudimentary form of collective voyeurism, which, even when earnestly accompanied by exhortations to responsibility (condoms!), is inherently titillating and a licence to breach natural modesty boundaries.
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.”
The papers report the abortion issue is waking up.
Politicians may gain nothing in this debate, but pro-lifers have nothing to lose.
The sixth annual report card, released in part by the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, found alarming trends for decreased physical activity in younger children.
Most toddlers under the age of two have already spent some time in front of the TV, it said — even though it is recommended they get zero screen time before their second birthday.
One American study used to compile the report found that 89 per cent of time spent at day care was sedentary.
OK, so maybe I’m using a cute excuse to engage in daycare-bashing (it’s a bit of a hobby). It is of course up to parents to help kids develop healthy life habits, no matter where they spend their days. So get to it.
Look, I can see why some people are annoyed that parents would refuse to have the school teach their kids awfully graphic sexual stuff too early. If you believe Ontario sixth graders should know the mechanics of vaginal lubrication, then obviously you’re probably upset right now. Maybe you think those of us who disagree with you are ridiculously prude. Maybe you think we’re hopelessly behind the times. You know, repressed. (That’s OK, we have different words for you.)
MATERnal health. Making motherhood safer. Great column in the Citizen today, that lays out why and how United Nations types needle the developing world towards abortion and “reproductive rights,” in spite of the fact that they don’t want it and in spite of the fact that maternal health and abortion have nothing to do with one another.
Kudos to Canada for speaking out against this.