If this were written on April 1, I would have thought it had to be a joke. Unfortunately, not:

Now he is good, but it did not go away with just a loving hug — his status was accomplished once his friends saw our house and other possessions.

(h/t)

Here in Ottawa, at least, it’s not a day for blogging. I understand what to do with 25 degree and sunny days in April that make up a long weekend, and typing/taxes/working were some of the things on my list but aren’t anymore. It it is also Easter, and so while I’m out in the sunshine I’m going to sincerely repent of all my many mistakes. So many. And yet what are you gonna do in this life? The definition of success is that that we get up when we fall down…

Happy Easter Saturday.

The headline could be “Majority backs abortion rights” *or* “Liberal pollster needs a competing headline.”  

“Would you call yourself pro-choice or pro-life?”

versus

“Is abortion morally wrong?”

These are two different questions. Many who would say abortion is morally wrong would also say they are pro-choice. (This is the rather large “wrong for me but I can’t tell others what to do” category.)

What is legal is not always moral and what is moral is not always legal.

Political parties on abortion: Let us pretend there is no issue, until such time as we want to make it into a wedge for our opponents.

I totally agree with Dan Gardner’s column today about demographics.

And I too am at risk of being slapped with that undesirable fanatic label.  I’m working to take back the term. Enjoy it. Feel it. Live it. Breathe it. Soon I’ll never be invited anywhere.

Anyhoo: You can’t talk about demographics without talking about fertility. And you can’t talk about fertility without talking about abortion. And you can’t talk about any of this without talking about an anti-child culture. And, for good measure, women waiting to have children.

Never miss a chance to be fanatical, I say. Life is short.

Wow. People dream of having spare time to call around like this. And all this to convince people who are decidedly “anti-life.” (Sarah McLachlan who started Lilith Fair is pro-choice.)

When a pro-abortion politician demands “abortion rights” as part of maternal health, it’s predictable like a “please play again” in your Roll Up The Rim to Win Tim Horton’s Coffee Cup.

You always hope for more, like a computer, or perhaps, $10,000 bucks! but what you get is a call for abortion rights. Predictable.

Heartwrenching. We can read of stories from an unknown Chinese mother, but the children never get to speak.

(I know Brigitte linked to this in a post below. I just thought this news item warrants a post of its own.)