I mind faux empowerment laced with the persistent whine of victimization.
Seems to me empowerment-victimization is the MO of many women’s womyn’s groups. And, apparently, now the Girl Guides, too.
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Andrea updates: The guide itself. “Happy, Healthy, Hot”–the title really does tell you a lot about priorities for International Planned Parenthood.
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Andrea again: Sorry, it’s actually “Healthy, Happy, Hot”. My mistake. That changes everything.
Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get me! Here we have a book review by PWPL’s own Rebecca Walberg in the National Post.
To this I would add that since going to the Spy Museum in Washington, DC I am also an expert. Funny, Rebecca did not interview me to write this piece.
There’s a seminar tonight at Carleton University put on by the Womyn’s Centre. I think the idea is to have normal pro-life men and women go so as to maybe ask a reasonable question or two. Plus, I find these events usually teach me something about the pro-abortion mindset.
So, the information:
Tonight, Monday, March 15
A panel discussion addressing access and legal issues surrounding reproductive freedom and women’s health
Room 214, Residence Commons
6:30-8:30 pm
A poll of Canadian values presented at the Manning Centre conference did surprise me, but here you go, these are the results:
On moral issues, Canadians are more socially conservative than most of us would be led to believe. 89% of respondents strongly agreed with the statement “nothing is more important than family.” 67% strongly agreed that, by definition, “marriage is between a man and a woman.” And 60% strongly agree that abortion is morally wrong.
At the same time, only 31% feel government should play a major role regulating individual behaviour and morality, and there is a pretty even split (46%:50%) on the role of government in preserving the moral fabric of society.
After everything was over at the conference, I went out with a family friend. I told him about the poll. He scoffed and immediately, and much to my embarrassment, took a poll of one by asking the waiter if he agreed that marriage should be between one man and one woman. To which the waiter replied, “No (pause) and if I did I wouldn’t tell you.”
But perhaps he would tell a pollster anonymously? Anyway, interesting results.
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The Economist takes note of the world’s missing women in a manner not unlike my story called Canada’s Lost Daughters.
Must say I never expected this from the Economist. Neither would I expect their insertion of a poignant picture of little pink shoes.
Watching CBC. At 9 pm. Kids in the Hall. Just had a longish segment showing a man playing a woman having an abortion. But the baby lives, and the abortionist raises the baby.
Even if it wasn’t crass and vulgar on a topic near and dear to my heart, I would still say, this is one not funny show.
I should start this post by saying I’m not advocating for teen motherhood.
But I will say that this article about how timing in our culture for mothers is all wrong struck a chord with me. And I’ve recently been having lots of thoughts about how this extended childhood we sanction in our society is ridiculous. People turn 40 and still live as if they were 14, albeit playing video games in their own basement instead of their parents.
Teens can be very capable. We coddle them in our culture. They could be out and about contributing much earlier than we let them. Or than I did, to be very blunt, by pursuing many multiple very important degrees.
Now I can see how one would not win big on the lecture circuit with this point, highlighted by the Globe’s Leah Maclaren of all people, but based on the ideas of one Hilary Mantel who I know not. But not wanting to be outdone on the unpopularity file, I will say this. If teens are going to be moms and dads, they should get married first.
(This moment of political incorrectness was brought to you courtesy of the one who thinks Sarah Palin actually is an advocate for women. Know your source, they say, know your source.)
Big rally against further liberalization of abortion in Spain over the weekend. The news article definitely pits mom against child in a battle of rights, which is a misperception we must struggle to correct.
But check the last line of the report, which is what caught my interest:
Currently, Spanish women can also end a pregnancy if their physical or psychological health is at risk. In practice, the last category has been used to justify the vast majority of abortions – of which there were 112,000 in 2007.
Spain apparently has a restrictive law, but 112,000 abortions annually nonetheless. Spain has a population of about 45 million. Canada has no law, a population of about 33 million, and about 110,000 abortions annually (we can’t know for sure since the stats are so poorly kept and many clinics don’t file.)
So legal changes may result in exactly the same position when it comes to lost lives…if unaccompanied by cultural heart change.