We are creatures of control. I want to get married at this time, with this job and with this amount of money. I want to know where I’m going and with who. I want XX number of children, spaced YY years apart. I want to be comfortable. I want to be the master of my destiny. I don’t want to have to iron out uncomfortable wrinkles, I want to throw out the whole cloth. We are wholly and completely unprepared for anything that throws us for a loop, be it materially or emotionally.

This used to be called selfish, but today it’s called empowerment.

Those are my thoughts on this article about normalizing mothers who abort.

There’s a new campaign launching today at We Want the Debate.ca.  

I’ll let you guess what we might be debating. There’s t-shirts, if you want to wear one, I’m sure you can email and ask at that web site. I think this is a clever campaign because it peaks attention and because truly, debate is stifled in this country. Let freedom reign!

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More information: 

GUELPH, Ontario, Oct. 18, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ — A group within the educational pro-life movement is throwing down the gauntlet on what it claims is the current censorship and hostility toward any attempt to debate abortion. Known as the We Want the Debate Campaign, it challenges anyone wishing to defend abortion to an open, transparent and fair debate in front of the people of Ontario.

Over the next four months, the campaign will conduct a series of activities to highlight current contradictions and misconceptions that warp the public’s view of abortion. It will expose a systematic distortion by the overwhelming majority of the media of the facts of abortion. It will also denounce the Federal Government’s disregard of the majority of Canadian’s wish to allow a discussion on the future of abortion in our country.

“We believe that the suppression of any debate in a democratic society is unacceptable,” said Jakki Jeffs, director of the We Want the Debate Campaign. “We demand that the current censorship of the debate around abortion be ended, and that an open and informed discussion be held in public. The stifling of the debate over the past decades has prevented all Canadians from having access to the facts, and has left the issue completely ignored. In the coming months we will be addressing this lack of balance, and on the 7th of February 2012 we hope those who wish to defend abortion will join us in finally debating this before the people of Ontario.”

The story of a mother who will lose her son to a rare genetic disorder, likely before he turns 3. She talks about how parenting is all geared to the future, as indeed, much of it is. But her job is in the here and now, exclusively:

Parenting, I’ve come to understand, is about loving my child today. Now. In fact, for any parent, anywhere, that’s all there is.

It made me think that perhaps more than we think, all relationships are about the here and the right now, since we never know when we might breathe our last.

Something to be aware of: Errors in miscarriage diagnosis.

We often hear in Canada that we don’t want to debate those pesky moral issues. Morality is viewed as a bad word in political debate.

Here’s what happens without it though:

Press release here:

According to an Abacus Data poll, 40 per cent of respondents think abortion should be available but only funded in medical emergencies, while 11 per cent think abortion should be available but never funded, and 10 per cent do not think abortion should be available at all. In contrast, 30 per cent think abortion should be available and always funded. Another 8 per cent said none of those positions match their view…

The poll also found that 48 per cent want all abortion information – statistics about the number of abortions and how much they cost – to be publicly disclosed, while just 21 per cent do not think these figures need to be released. Furthermore, a whopping 91 per cent of respondents had no idea that the province spends at least $30 million on abortion. This is no doubt tied to the fact that Ontario does not release these numbers. “The abortion industry does not want Ontarians to know that abortion is the most common surgery in Canada. People would be shocked if they knew how many abortions are committed in Canada.” added Golob.

Margaret Somerville weighs in on why the “Win a Baby” competition is unethical.

Just one of the many things I’m thankful for: The Hills of Gatineau. 

Talk about decreasing abortions, not by law but because that is what women choose. This clip is evidence that 40 Days for Life is working. (Watch the video at the top of the page.)

And while PWPL is a big proponent of the fact that you need not be religious to be pro-life, the fact is that lots of religious folks get involved in the struggle. 40 Days for Life is another valuable approach to decreasing the desire for abortion, alongside the Show the Truth style campaigns. It’s all very encouraging to see.