Archives for January 2012

“Study: Many teen moms surprised they got pregnant.”

(And to this, many people will say we just need better and more sex education. It never ends.)

The pro-choice movement likes to claim that pro-lifers are all old men. Right back at you.

Stumbled across this web site today (strange world I live in, yes). It provides the stories of women and men who used to work in abortion clinics but no longer do.

Today I heard some relatively fair reporting on the Roe v Wade decision. The station was AM 1310 in Ottawa. They had one clip from a pro-lifer saying this is the human rights struggle of our age, and then they gave a brief synopsis of what the debate is. I’m paraphrasing, but they said something like “it’s a debate between those who think abortion is murder, and those who believe in a woman’s right to decide whether to carry a pregnancy to term.”

That they included it in their newscast at all is a very good start.

This started out as a post about why I love Sundays. And mostly, it shall continue as one. However, in my Sunday morning puttering, I’ve been reminded that today is the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision in the United States of America. The Canadian anniversary of Morgentaler comes on January 28.

So. How to combine what was a happy Sunday morning with reminder of these decidedly unhappy events? I think I shall do it in the following way: by continuing with my Ten Reasons to Love Sundays, thereby declaring one obvious thing: Bad things are a part of life, but that doesn’t mean we give up the good. Does not celebrating the small stuff help us to find that right combination of grace and courage to fight the bad?

TEN REASONS TO LOVE SUNDAYS

Breakfast, no rush.

Random reading. A little Statecraft (Margaret Thatcher), a couple of pages of How then shall we live? (Chuck Colson) combined with Facebook status updates.

Cleaning my winter boots (with polish).

Skipping church. A decidedly non-rebellious form of rebellion. (If I had gone to church, I would have included going to church as a reason to love Sundays. I am pro-church, but whimsical, for those of you concerned about my spiritual frame of mind.)

Getting ready for next weekend (forward thinking!).

Second breakfast, likewise, no rush.

The fine art of puttering. Here, sorry to show off, I excel.

Making additional tasty salad dressing for vast quantities of leftover salad from party the night before. You’ll want to keep this recipe on hand. Never before has a mere salad solicited so much praise. Why the leftovers then? Because I made enough for 1000 men, marching strong, that’s why. (As everyone knows, strong men marching want nothing more than a Napa Cabbage Salad afterwards.)

Reminding myself of what my guitar sounds like. Must. Learn. F.

Thinking about skiing. Considering skiing. And eventually, though not quite yet, skiing.

(File under “Nothing in particular.”)

It died so long ago, that it may seem out of place to mourn. But the behaviour of the captain on the Costa Concordia makes me sad in so many ways. And lest we blame men, let’s not forget, this is exactly what feminists wanted: every (wo)man for her/himself.

A good article about this, here.

This article highlights an abortion movement that is uncomfortable with itself. The term “choice” is apparently not only a distasteful euphemism for pro-life folks, it is also so for an extreme pro-abortion crowd, one that wants abortion to be viewed as a morally difficult decision, but a moral good at the same time.

Bonne chance!

Bam! I am glad to see such a professional, moving pro-life video. Watch and enjoy.

Just in case you needed another reason to forego breast implants, serious health risks are being reported for PIP implants.

All women with faulty breast implants should have them removed given the ‘uncertainty and lack of knowledge’ about the extent of the problems, a leading surgeon warned today.

Tim Goodacre, a member of the Government-commissioned panel investigating the scandal, said the latest estimate of rupture rates was “very much higher” than he would consider acceptable.

About 50,000 British women are thought to have received the silicone implants made by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) filled with gel meant for mattresses.

While sex selection isn’t the only bad reason to have an abortion, it’s one that many people have an opinion on. What the issue of sex selective abortion does is create a space to discuss abortion in the social and political realm that might not have existed otherwise. For a lot of people, sex selection is their line in the sand.

This article refers to sex selection as an “abuse” of rights. In my opinion, that’s a good place to begin discussions about what is currently an unrestrained use of legality (ie. abortion anytime, anyplace, for any reason).

While it is a woman’s right in Canada to continue only wanted pregnancies, exercising rights and abusing them are two very different things. Making an inherently sexist decision based on the fact that it’s your right as a woman is definitely an abuse of that freedom.

Compared to China and India, where millions of female fetuses are aborted, and many girls who are born are told they are unwanted, the problem may seem small—but that doesn’t make it less important.

While I disagree that immigration is responsible for Canada’s abortion rate, and while any abortion because a child is “unwanted” is an abuse of rights, articles like this give me hope that the nation is beginning to publicly question what’s been happening behind closed hospital doors. The number of comments these articles get is also an indicator that people want to discuss the current legislation.