As anyone who reads this blog regularly will note, from time to time I post something of no value whatsoever. Today, on a rainy day in Ottawa, I post the song I am blasting while I clean. Save this house! I have put off cleaning for too long. Plus, I love the spirit of the west, and Spirit of the West. Good times.
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Or should I say sexperts. They’re coming out to say banning intimate behaviour in the military is impossible. More than impossible. It’s against 100 Million Years (insert echo voice here) of human evolution!
You cannot fight it: You put adults together in any situation and you’re going to have sex and intimacy.”
Makes me wonder what I’m doing wrong, actually.
The maternal health debate continues and will do so until the G8/G20 meetings. But should abortion be included in maternal health in the developing world?
Be it resolved that a compassionate and effective aid agenda is one where safe and legal abortions are publicly funded
Click here to watch me debate this resolution. May the best woman win!
“Harmonize.” A new word for lying?
NEW YORK – C-FAM) At a meeting on maternal and child health research in Washington last week, United Nations (UN) staff and abortion advocates told scientists they should “harmonize” their findings or discuss them “in a locked room” so that the press could not report maternal death numbers that conflicted with the ones they use to lobby policy makers and major international donors. Ann Starrs, co-founder and president of the abortion advocacy organization Family Care International (FCI), told a roomful of scientists to “lock all the academics in a black box and have them come out with a consensus set of numbers” or “at least hide that there is disagreement” and “infighting.” FCI is the founder of Women Deliver, which is hosting a massive UN-backed reproductive rights fundraising conference in Washington next week.
When I meet people, as I have four times now, whose story includes a biological mom who sought out abortion but couldn’t get one, I look at them and think–wow–you were really destined to be here, to do great things. In each of the four cases, these people are doing great things in their spheres of influence, having overcome more difficult than average obstacles.
I’d like to meet the mothers and see how they are doing in life. But given privacy laws and the decision of the people I know not to seek out their biological moms, this is more difficult.
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Stephanie Gray could get elected as an MP, since Ms. Hedy Fry is only willing to debate abortion in the House of Commons.
Great column. I too am concerned that this reasonable solution of helping pregnant women won’t take hold. It hasn’t thus far, that’s for sure. This might be because for a very small but vocal minority, abortion constitutes helping a pregnant woman and absent this purportedly neutral choice, they see no wholeness/wellness for women. Sad.
On that note, expect a survey at some point this summer (for frequent readers–or anyone who would like to participate) on how/where PWPL can be more helpful. More soon.
Out of touch? Ill-informed? Trauma sustained by meeting obnoxious pro-lifers in their youth? I can’t psycho-analyze the level of media paranoia on the A word anymore than I can figure out Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s.
This article is a good one, though. Because on abortion, as on other issues, the media have ceased to report, instead opining excessively. (I opine excessively, too, it’s just that when I write for papers my pieces are actually in the op-ed section.)
So the next time you watch the pro-life community dismissed as a fringe element, ask yourself: Who’s really out of touch with the American people here?
…leads to hiding babies and distributing them amongst relatives so as to avoid the authorities. A Chinese demographer therefore suggests the official statistics are wrong:
Liang has discovered discrepancies in China’s census. “In 1990, the national census recorded 23 million births. But by the 2000 census, there were 26 million 10 year-old children, an increase of three million,” he said. His findings suggest that the one-child policy may not have the grim consequences that have been widely predicted.
While I’d be glad to hear that’s true, it doesn’t change the grim nature of the one-child policy. Neither does it change past reports of seeing classrooms filled with boys, for example.
But wait a minute. Every previous generation in history would have happily traded places with us. So what if the Germans will have to sacrifice a week or two of paid vacation time, or if hairdressers in Greece will no longer be able to retire with a pension at the age of 50? Almost all their babies live.
Way back I remember writing a news item based on UN data showing how the world, not just the west, was improving on various outcomes and how we were all doing better than just a hundred years ago. Not saying there isn’t room for improvement but context is important.