This is a good read, especially as the school year starts. The author got pregnant at university. She concludes by saying she feels she’s failed every woman who gets pregnant and drops out.

I’d tell her to try. Just try. Even if you don’t think it’s going to work out, try it anyway.

On a different note, if you are pregnant in university and you need some of these supports the author mentions in her article, I’m very confident that using this site, friends of this site and other sources like Sisters for Life, we can get you what you need in any Canadian city. If you are currently in university, pregnant and feeling alone, please don’t hesitate to contact me through this site, Facebook and/or my work (a quick Google of my name brings contact info up).

A sad statement on all we will never know about love and relationships. The worst part to me is that there are hundreds, thousands of willing naysayers, ready to make fun of him for what he has written here. As I read, I could hear them already… But in the end, I think he has named the truth:

We are a generation of the dull, blank, listless, hopeless; a generation of youth without mirth, age without wisdom.  Even our eros is pallid and nerveless.

Good question. The National Post is asking:

Whom do you look up to?

Who are today’s  most influential people/thinkers … and why? Let us know in 75 words or fewer at [email protected], with responses published on Monday, Sept. 17.

Got me thinking. Who would I submit? I have friends and family I look up to. I have writers/columnists I look up to and/or appreciate. It’s a hopeful question. If someone jumps to mind, consider submitting your thoughts to them! (Remember that Brevity is Godliness in the world of journalism.)

More info here about defunding rallies in front of MPPs offices on October 13. There is much work to be done at the provincial level, since abortion is funded by provincial healthcare plans. I think defunding is an important step. One of the aggravating things about our opponents on this issue is that they call abortion both a personal choice and a medical procedure. It’s one or the other.

An interview with Karen Handel, formerly of Komen.

Brilliant.

Sandra Fluke has been blessed with a quarter-million dollars of elite education, and, on the evidence of Wednesday night, is entirely incapable of making a coherent argument. She has enjoyed the leisurely decade-long varsity once reserved for the minor sons of Mitteleuropean grand dukes, and she has concluded that the most urgent need facing the Brokest Nation in History is for someone else to pay for the contraception of 30-year-old children. She says the choice facing America is whether to be “a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn’t apply to our bodies and our voices” – and, even as the words fall leaden from her lips, she doesn’t seem to comprehend that Catholic institutions think their “voices” ought to have freedom, too, or that Obamacare seizes jurisdiction over “our bodies” and has 16,000 new IRS agents ready to fine us for not making arrangements for “our” pancreases and “our” bladders that meet the approval of the commissars. Sexual liberty, even as every other liberty withers, is all that matters: A middle-school girl is free to get an abortion without parental consent, but if she puts a lemonade stand on her lawn she’ll be fined. What a bleak and reductive concept of “personal freedom.”

PS It is entirely a coincidence, so much so that it must be Providence, that I happened to choose a photo that remembers a woman and her unborn child. I got a bit of a surprise when I proofed my already published post.

From my go-to blog when the world is getting me down, Momastery.

My mom does this too, except she doesn’t call me “honey” but rather a Czech variation on my name that no one else, myself included, can pronounce. (It contains an “a” that sounds like an “e” and a “soft d,” which does not exist in English. Good luck, my fellow anglophones!)

My mom answered the phone. We’d just spoken three hours prior. Still, she answered like this: “Well, Hiiiiiiiiiiiii HONEY!!!” Like it’d been four years since we’d checked in. Like it was a thrilling unbelievable SHOCK that I was calling. Like I was in a third world country and the likelihood that I’d have found a phone was nil. Like I’d been missing for years. She always answers like that.

A good friend of mine is in the midst of watching her mother’s health decline in hospital.

So, my friends, today is a good day to call your mom and tell her you love her. You can do it, just pick up the phone.

I won’t speak ill of the dead. Be aware that this sort of hagiography for a mere friend of Morgentaler will be multiplied 1000 fold when the man himself dies. Be further aware that the press will ring with the sounds of how this was done for “women’s rights.”

This is fun. Cardinal Dolan gives the benediction at the Democratic National Convention and, as a Catholic, calls for courage to protect unborn life. I was thinking last night that provided Caroline Kennedy (as a Catholic) still believes in God, she’ll be called to account for her speaking to the masses in this way, and leading them astray. As a Catholic, my foot. That really gets me. I’m entirely used to all the “reproductive health/abortion rights” hoopla. Just don’t try and make Catholicism, or really, any living faith, sanction it.