I laughed out loud at the headline alone but the quotes are even better:

Young Abortion Foes Trouble NARAL Leader

Yes, yes. I’m sure they do.

Premier Dalton McGuinty was caught today actually listening to his constituents. He’s giving up on the new sex ed curriculum.

Cherish these moments.

The letters page in the National Post is filled with people against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia, from absolutely every angle. The second reading vote on Francine Lalonde’s “Death with Dignity” bill is today. Let’s hope these letters speak into it NOT passing (which would push it to committee stage). Hopefully this bill will die today.

(here, here, here, here and here–just buy the paper)

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Brigitte adds this update: The bill was defeated, and soundly at that (228 to 59).

Sex week at Yale. Read it and weep. Truly.

While the sadomasochism marketer was attaching pinching devices to her breasts, another presentation was in progress next door. A speaker invited by Yale’s Anscombe Society, a small campus group devoted to the cause of premarital abstinence, was explaining that the sexual revolution made “consent” the only moral test of a sexual relationship, ignoring the idea that “some sexual acts are incompatible with human dignity.” He asked the audience, “Can we move from saying what is permissible to asking what is right and what is good?” Attendance at “Babeland’s Lip Tricks,” in which a New York stripper demonstrated oral sex techniques with rubber props for 90 minutes: 2,000 (more than a third of the undergraduate body). Attendance at the lecture advocating sexual restraint: 14. Yale’s motto: Lux et veritas (light and truth). Privilege of attending Yale in 2010: not quite as priceless as it used to be.

The students who do the Genocide Awareness Project on U of C’s campus are being threatened with expulsion. Here’s what one Cameron Wilson had to say about that at a press conference on Monday:

Welcome friends and members of the press.

We of Campus Pro-Life have been told countless upon countless occasions that the Genocide Awareness Project, and the pictures contained therein, are offensive and hurtful to look at. But if an action is too terrible to look at, how then can it be tolerated? Why should we leave unchallenged and undebated a practice so horrific that words alone fail to describe it? In the many times we have exhibited this display, we have opened up discussion on campus, a place where ignited and educated debate should always feel at home. Furthermore, we have watched and offered counsel to many men and women who have been hurt by abortion, and who have never openly confronted this pain. There is an immense capacity for healing inherent in this display, and that – in and of itself – makes this display, without a shadow of doubt worth the cost that the university seeks to exact from us individually.

We hold that the university campus is meant to be a place of frank discussion and debate.  A place where viewpoints are judged by their merit rather than extinguished by the use of force based on their relative unpopularity.  We of Campus Pro-Life have a long history with the University of Calgary documenting our commitment to the principle of freedom of speech which needs not be long expounded here.

We simply wish to deliver a message to the University of Calgary about their suppression of our freedoms which we but used to defend society’s weakest elements.

Our message to the University is this: do unto us whatever you desire, punish us however you wish; but our convictions shall not change, and we shall not alter our actions based on intimidation.

We shall not abandon the unborn child to be murdered.
We shall not desert the single mom in crisis.
We shall not allow the evil of abortion to remain unexposed.
We shall not be intimidated by the threat of force.
We shall not be scared by the threat of expulsion.
We shall not back down from the stand we have made.

If they are to punish us, then we are content to let history revile them for their suppression of liberty.
If they are to punish us, then let the blood of the unborn child be upon their heads.
If they are to punish us then let the pain of the suffering mom be upon their conscience.
History will not remember what illegitimate excuse they used, other than as a derogative footnote; but history will remember their transgression against freedom, and it is upon this that posterity shall judge them.
So let the university do whatever action their twisted worldview sees fit, for we fear not the judgment of tyranny.

And it is an oppressive tyranny that reigns today, all because of… silence. If I had a dollar for every person who said “I’m not personally in favour of abortion, but…” and so it goes and so it goes. It’s no small thing to forego your university education for a cause, but that speech sort of conveys that these guys don’t care. Good for them.

Doctors are working round the clock to sterilize those who disobeyed the one child policy:

In Puning county couples with illegal children and their relatives who apply for permits to build a house are rejected. Illegal children are refused residency registration, a penalty that denies them access to healthcare and education. Authorities have discovered, however, that those methods have less success than rounding up relatives.

I thought there had been a softening of the one child policy. Apparently not.

Bam. The column is called “It’s been a tough week for pro-choicers.” Only gonna get harder. Think about it: Science just won’t conceal those pesky babies in the womb. Women writers fail to fall in line with feminist mantras. Laws being passed that recognise fetal pain.

Convincing people that a pregnancy does not involve two people when any two-year-old can see it does is tough work. It must be hard to be on the wrong side of history.

An article here about Rod Bruinooge’s new bill to ban coercing someone  to have an abortion.

So does this happen in Canada? Certainly not to the extent that women are being murdered, right, left and centre, no, as was the case for Roxanne after whom MP Rod Bruinooge is naming his bill.

I’m way more concerned about the subtle form of coercion or influence that happens in just your average abortion. Women are very susceptible to just even the smallest expression (or lack of expression) of their partners and family, I think.

And the burden of proof does not lie in proving that no one is coerced into keeping the baby, not in a culture where there are 100,000 plus abortions annually.