I will not be the first one, at this late stage, to highlight for Barbara Kay that abortion-rights activists will not find anything she’s written here remotely reasonable. They will fight it all tooth and nail. Let’s keep in mind that the only people happy with the status quo right now are very radical, very extreme pro-abortion types. But they have voice in the law schools, amongst judges, in the education system and finally, in the media.

Don’t just blame politicians, then, for not engaging in this debate. Blame those who uphold the status quo because every time a pro-abortion woman pipes up with just one simple word: “Discrimination!” everyone kowtows and scuttles away in scared silence. (If a pro-life woman stands up and says: “Injustice!” she’s being controlled by the patriarchy and can generally be ignored.)

The problem with abortion is that there never has been a consensus. The topic is on permanent high boil for so many, and therefore any opportunity at all to discuss it brings it up again and again. In short, it’s precisely because of the total and complete lack of consensus that the issue keeps coming up. I personally think Prime Minister Harper must deeply regret this maternal health initiative. But it’s too late now.

So, when Ignatieff says this, it’s pretty laughable:

But let’s be clear: we didn’t end the 25-year consensus on a woman’s right to choose. They did,” he told the $500-a-plate crowd of close to 1,000 at the Sheraton Centre Hotel.

And actually, there’s nothing more motivating for me than to hear patronizing liberal types declare there’s a consensus, simply because they, and their friends at the Granite Club, all agree.

Our newest member of PWPL speaking to the crowd. Go Jennifer Go!

“Gender disappointment“. When you want a girl and get a boy or vice versa.

When did women become this frivolous and weak? You might feel some disappointment, I’m sure, but then you get over it, because there were only ever two options and both are equally great.

Read it, here:

Our prominent woman sisterhood is telling these young women that they are strong enough to deal with this,” Palin said. “They can give their child life, in addition to pursuing career and education and avocations. Society wants to tell these young women otherwise. These feminist groups want to tell these women that, ‘No, you’re not capable of doing both.’ . . . It’s very hypocritical.”

So I’m going around town with my nieces and we stop in a coffee shop. Where the tattoed, pierced, 20-year-old guy behind the counter can’t get enough of my niece. He finally asks me, “Would her mother let me give her a cookie? Because,” and I quote, “she’s cute as a button.”

Which of course, she really, really is. I just didn’t expect this fellow to recognize it. Neither did I expect him to use the phrase “cute as a button.” Moral of the story is–don’t judge a book by its cover.

A fair report on the March for Life, here, which strikes me as a noteworthy event. Newsworthy, even.

It’s the annual March for Life today and I just checked it out. Beautiful day here in Ottawa, sunny and warmer than it’s been. The Hill is full, many people are just enjoying the sunshine. A photo, courtesy of Faytene Kryskow, because I did not take my camera.