Archives for 2010

…I post this link about the Sarah Palin event in Calgary.

Tee hee.

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Brigitte does not wish to be outdone: So I’m posting this. Some days it’s good to be a girl.

What a horrible tragedy:

TORONTO — In one of two fatal GTA fires Sunday, a Toronto dad handed his baby son to a visiting neighbour — then gave his life in a desperate bid to find a second child in the family’s North York home.

Toronto firefighters waded through heavy black smoke and pulled the man and his 12-year-old daughter from the second floor of their 1 1/2-storey postwar Kemp Square house shortly after 3 p.m.

Neither had lifesigns, but Toronto Fire District Chief Stephan Powell said paramedics revived the girl.

This man was a hero. May he rest in peace.

Big rally against further liberalization of abortion in Spain over the weekend. The news article definitely pits mom against child in a battle of rights, which is a misperception we must struggle to correct.

But check the last line of the report, which is what caught my interest:

Currently, Spanish women can also end a pregnancy if their physical or psychological health is at risk. In practice, the last category has been used to justify the vast majority of abortions – of which there were 112,000 in 2007.

Spain apparently has a restrictive law, but 112,000 abortions annually nonetheless. Spain has a population of about 45 million. Canada has no law, a population of about 33 million, and about 110,000 abortions annually (we can’t know for sure since the stats are so poorly kept and many clinics don’t file.)

So legal changes may result in exactly the same position when it comes to lost lives…if unaccompanied by cultural heart change.

I somehow missed this last month. A good article about life, compassion and choice:

Add incentives for religious and private-sector organizations to provide money and means for young mothers who want to raise their babies themselves, and we’re starting to get somewhere. Again, if we stipulate that abortion itself is a tragic act, wouldn’t a robust and ubiquitous network of alternatives be helpful? When you offer people good choices, bad laws become irrelevant.

Naturally I’m onside with this, since we here at PWPL are dedicated to making our current bad law/legal vaccuum irrelevant. The tricky part is how to create those incentives. Young women today know where to go for an abortion. It is so easy. Since I can’t stop them on the sidewalk (bubble zone laws and this strikes me as on the late side, anyway) what’s a girl to do?

I continue to brainstorm on that point.

As a side note, the world needs more pro-life asset managers.

You and, admittedly, a couple dozen million Canadians besides. The government decided not to mess with the national anthem. A couple of people are unhappy, including the senator who reportedly came up with the daffy idea. Here’s what she had to say:

If it’s been pulled, it’s an example of how much violence I think there is against women. This is such a relatively small thing to do.”

And you, Nancy Ruth of Ontario, are an example of why people don’t take feminists seriously.

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Andrea adds: “Me, and a couple dozen million Canadians.” But mostly me, I’m quite sure.

Keep in mind live tweeting the abortion by RU-486 was supposed to normalize the procedure and make all of us feel so super duper comfortable with it.

Here, Jill Stanek, a pro-life blogger in the States chronicles the live abortion tweets. 

By the end, they’re agonizing to read, forget about actually experiencing the ordeal.

Initially I just thought the whole thing was sad but was prepared to say this woman live tweeting her abortion ain’t my target audience and let it go.

But reading Jill Stanek’s post makes the point loud and clear: if this is how an abortion-activist experiences RU-486 (she was totally non-chalant about it at the start) then how much worse for the rest of us?

Jill Stanek is right:

But the first rule of demystifying is one must herself be demystified before attempting to demystify. If not, the demystifying process may not go as anticipated, which is what happened in Jackson’s case. Only because Angie decided to live tweet her RU-486 abortion did we learn in actuality it’s a long, drawn out, painful process. For that reason I thought Angie’s exposé was a worthwhile educational experience for us all.

Educational, yes. For me too.

Oh look. More ACORN employees cleared of wrongdoing. Who would have thought?

NEW YORK – A prosecutor’s office says it has found no criminal wrongdoing on the part of three employees of the community organizers group ACORN caught on video advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend.

The news story fails to mention that the prostitute in question was ostensibly posing as a minor. Small detail, that.