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Clicking on crazy

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When I see a teaser that says forced childbirth is responsible for global warming, I’m of two minds as to whether I should click on it or not.

But I did, and now I must share. This tidbit of wisdom comes from Gloria Steinem, who is living in a bygone era (as so many feminists are), one where people are falling off the globe due to overpopulation.

On the term “forced childbirth,” or it’s close cousin, “forced pregnancy”–this is a trope pro-abortion folks bring up as they completely disengage from any semblance of sanity or reason and ignore the fact that two people are involved in childbirth. A child is the result of childbirth. So where human life is involved, it’s not forced childbirth we need to worry about, but rather, killing people (read: abortion) because nine months of pregnancy is uncomfortable (which most assuredly, it is, even for a wanted pregnancy). Remember, no woman has to parent. I can find you five couples who will willingly adopt a child today if presented the opportunity. But once pregnant, even under terrible circumstances, there is no quick and easy way to undo that.

Oh Gloria.

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Gloria thinks there are too many people on the globe.

Gloria thinks there are too many people on the globe.

A21 Walk for Freedom

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This will be the first post of many advertising this upcoming event organized by a friend.

There is an upcoming walk to abolish modern-day slavery coming up in Ottawa.

Grab a friend on October 15 and come down to the starting point at 227 Elgin Street at Lisgar. Time: 10:00 AM.

Please register at www.a21.org/ottawa

You can learn more about A21, the sponsoring organization, here, and how they hope to combat human trafficking.

These stories aren’t always about women from foreign lands. It can be someone local, who is separated from family and community, and falls in with the wrong group of “friends.” Reminds me, actually, of the importance and power of family and parents in protecting children. (A tie in with my day job.)

Here’s a little video clip, one girl’s story, from their web site.

So please come and support this walk come October 15!

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A big picture look at IVF

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It’s hard to write about IVF without sounding sanctimonious. When I say I don’t like IVF, I don’t say it lightly. Perhaps it helps that this isn’t a statement easily made from the comfort of 2.1 children behind a white picket fence.

That said, I’ve always had a hard time articulating why I don’t like IVF. This article gets at some of those reasons, looking at the big picture.

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On taking life

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This morning while waiting at the blood clinic I saw a Chatelaine magazine from a while back on the table. An article on the front cover was advertised as something like “the baby I didn’t have.”

Turns out it was an article about a young mom facing a terrible diagnosis of anencephaly at 17 weeks. A little girl. They wanted her, cherished her, named her and induced labour so she was born at about 18 weeks and died the same moment she was born.

Why do I post here?

First of all, I do so without linking to the article because I do not want the mother to be linking in and reading this. There is no way this post would not appear judgmental to her. I do not think that the written word from a stranger, the blogosphere, Facebook or Twitter are what she needs to break through her mentality that inducing early labour was not actually an abortion, that it wasn’t taking life.

But it was, wasn’t it? How did she know this baby wouldn’t be miraculously healed? A woman in my peripheral circle recently also tragically lost her child after carrying to term due to a different pre-natal condition. She didn’t try to beat the judge to the verdict. Is that not fairer to yourself and the baby?

The woman in Chatelaine is surrounded by all things pro-choice, all the time. There is no doubt she knew this is a baby–she held her daughter and they took pictures. So I’d argue what we need to overcome is not necessarily the pro-choice culture, though it is that too. It’s a culture that cannot cope with the unexpected, that needs to know exactly how the story will end. When we don’t know or are unsure or it is scary, we bring about an end just to make the insecurity stop.

In short, pro-life or pro-choice–we need to be more zen and go with the flow.

I also write this blog post because it is an outlet. It pains me to hear about “early inductions” that are abortions but called something else so we feel better about it. It pains me because we, all of us pro-life readers, unlike the bulk of the western world, think that child’s life mattered even if it was intended to be only nine months in utero.

I’m not saying it’s not hard all round.

I’m simply saying I read those stories and I mourn, right there in the blood clinic.

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Elsie Wayne passes away

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A pro-life woman and former Member of Parliament from New Brunswick, Elsie Wayne, has passed away. Elsie Wayne was known to be pro-life thereby proving, once again, that the pro-life cause has never been made up of exclusively or even predominantly of men. May she rest in peace.

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Freedom of Expression Charter Challenge

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Folks, this is a worthy cause. The Government of Ontario is collecting abortion statistics and then denying its citizens reasonable access to that information. If they collect abortion statistics in the aggregate, not violating anyone’s privacy, that is and must remain public information. Today, the Ontario government has decided it will keep that information secret. I’m not quite clear on why. After all, you can be entirely pro-choice and still want to know whether the abortion rate is going up or down, or know whether more teenage mothers/advanced age mothers/what have you are having abortions. This is basic research of broader interest. More information here and below. NB: I had a eureka moment the other day with regards to charitable giving. I used to think I give something substantial or not at all. But guess what? ten dollars helps–and that is two lattés. And that’s the very nature of crowd funding. Of course, you may choose to give a big amount too, I’m sure Pat Maloney wouldn’t say no. But it’s helpful to know I can show support with a small donation and not break the bank.

In January, 2012, the Ontario government quietly slipped in an amendment to the provincial Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) whereby all information related to abortion is no longer accessible through freedom of Information requests.

Section 65(5.7) reads: “This Act does not apply to records relating to the provision of abortion services.”

Yet one of the FIPPA’s purposes is to guarantee access to government information to maintain transparency and accountability. Yet this addition undermines this purpose and was never debated in the Legislature.

I am a pro-life blogger and I ran up against this roadblock in January 2014. When my request for statistical information was denied (under the new provision) Iappealed the decision on my own, but lost.

I then retained a lawyer on a pro bono basis and appealed again. After a third appeal, I finally received the information. The government released this information to me “outside of the FIPPA process” mere days before my hearing in court. But the bad law remains on the books.

Together with ARPA Canada, I am now challenging the law itself as unconstitutional. We have filed a notice of application asking the Ontario Superior Court to strike down section 65(5.7) of Ontario’s FIPPA. Freedom of Information is guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, falling under the freedom of expression protection. A successful Charter challenge would produce the information we are looking for, would require the Ontario legislature to amend the legislation, and would expose the extremism of the Ontario government in banning all information, including basic statistical information, from the citizens of Ontario in order to hide the injustice of abortion.

On the April 27th edition of Lighthouse News, ARPA featured an interview with myself and André Schutten about the history of this file, and some of the particulars of the case. You can hear that interview here:
https://arpacanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/fippa-interview-only.mp3

See the PDFs and links below for more details:
Notice of Application – ARPA FIPPA
FAQs on FIPPA
http://www.weneedalaw.ca/blog/521-censorship-of-government-policy-and-spending-needs-to-stop
http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2016/01/charter-challenge-for-hiding-abortion.html

This go-fund-me campaign will help me raise funds to pay for my legal fees related to this challenge. We believe that open, transparent, and accountable government is crucial for a healthy democracy.

Pat Maloney, an Ottawa resident who is launching this Charter challenge with the help of the Association for Reform Political Action.

Pat Maloney, the Ottawa resident who is launching this Charter challenge with the help of the Association for Reform Political Action. I note she is a pro-life AND a woman. Fancy that.

The story of Jennifer Roback Morse

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I’m a Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse fan. The article says it: people either find her plucky or abrasive. I find her plucky–what’s more, she is kind-hearted and treats everyone with respect. So I’m not sure how the abrasive thing happens.

Read more about the life of Dr. J here.

A portion of it:

Without strong families, you can’t have free markets or limited government. Instead, you get ‘The Life of Julia.’” This is a reference to a slide-show advertisement from President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign that treated a fictitious woman’s cradle-to-grave dependence on government as a triumph of progressivism.

and my favourite quote:

Is it really so hard to say that children are entitled to parents? This is the birthright of every child, not an impossible dream.” She pauses, then concludes: “When nothing is politically possible, you don’t need to trim sails. You can just tell the truth.”

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What would an assessment of a Canadian paper tell us?

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Just got this press release. What would a similar analysis of a Canadian paper show? We have had legal abortion for some time so there’s no need to shift public opinion in favour of it. I suspect that what we would see at very least is a tendency to ignore legitimate news that falls outside of the “cultural consensus.” The thing is that no news outlet is bias free and it’s important to remember that. I personally think they are all allowed to have their bias, provided they recognize it as such (LifeSiteNews has, er, a pro-life bias). There’s many a news outlet that believes they are purveyors of neutral information, whilst in reality they are pushing an agenda.

91% of Irish Times articles showed pro-abortion bias, 3-year forensic analysis finds “Irish Times coverage designed to shift public opinion, rather than to inform it” Life Institute says

A review of every article published in the Irish Times concerning the issue of abortion over a three-year period has uncovered “systematic, persistent, and overwhelming bias” in support of legalised abortion, the Life Institute has revealed today.

Amongst the key findings from the forensic review of the period between January 2013 and December 2015 were

Of the 312 articles published by the paper that were determined to have a bias, 91% were found to have exhibited a pro legalised abortion bias. (284 of 312 articles)

For news reporting the bias was most evident, with 98% of news reports taking a position supportive of legalised abortion. (205 of 209 articles)

76.7% of opinion pieces for the period showed a bias towards legalised abortion with just over 23% taking a pro-life position.  (79 against 24 articles)

The Irish Times published two articles a week on average that were biased in favour of abortion – making them more a campaigner than a news agency.

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Subsidized childcare as coercion or choice?

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I see it as coercion and wrote about this for the Financial Post, here.

Canadians might assume family policies aim to help families. Certainly, in the last election campaign, “helping middle class families” was a phrase laid on thick — like BBQ sauce at a summer rib fest.

But any government policy can just as easily be a way to help government. And there appear to be strong notes of this in a recent federal Department of Finance briefing note called “The impact of childcare support on women’s labour force participation.” The note reveals a lot about how and why any government, and specifically this Liberal government, aims to “help families.” It may not be in the way families think.

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