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The Pill vs. Natural Family Planning, yes, again

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This article highlights how even pro-choice types can support natural family planning. I became aware of Geraldine Matus in Edmonton when I lived in Calgary. She says this:

NFP is “really about empowering women through knowledge of their body, and giving them a safe choice,” she told LifeSiteNews (LSN).

Now Matus also supports abortion, but here’s the thing: if she is in favour of women knowing their own bodies and promotes this through natural family planning, that is by default going to decrease the number of abortions. (If you truly understand your body, then you get the idea of what conception is, for example, and won’t be as distanced from that as you might be should an “accident” occur while on the Pill…That’s my theory, anyway.) 

So while I see abortion as being contradictory to women’s empowerment, I can support any pro-choicer who suggests that popping a pill daily ain’t the greatest thing since sliced bread. And quite frankly, I’m glad when they do because it resonates with a broader population and takes a bit of courage. Three cheers for Geraldine.

What she said

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An article about George Tiller’s trial in Kansas that I agree with:

Abortion providers have always had much to fear from the lunatic fringe. That hasn’t changed. Lateterm abortions are abhorrent. That hasn’t changed, either. But mainstream prolifers are not going to rush out to buy guns. Instead, they will rightly continue to condemn the killing of other humans, in whatever form that takes, both before and after birth.

Work, work, work

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This piece has drawn my attention to an Economist piece, which I shall now read, about women in the workforce. I’m intrigued by this quote:

But few are cheering. This is partly because young women take their opportunities for granted. It is partly because for many women work represents economic necessity rather than liberation. The rich world’s growing army of single mothers have little choice but to work. A growing proportion of married women have also discovered that the only way they can preserve their households’ living standards is to join their husbands in the labour market. In America families with stay-at-home wives have the same inflation-adjusted income as similar families did in the early 1970s…

All these things are played as choices, which is fine, except that in some cases, I don’t believe many of the family/work choices are freely made, after all.

Inflammatory reporting alert

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The murder trial of Scott Roeder, the man who killed abortionist George Tiller is on, in Kansas. I’m not sure who fears violence from this trial more–the reporter or the public. Read “Some fear abortion ruling could spur violence” here. (I think it’s the reporter, who has managed to find the two sources on the planet who agree.)

By the by, everytime I post about Tiller, a blogger sends creepy comments to this site about following pro-lifers home to kill them in the privacy of their own homes. So clearly this is an inflammatory topic–and there are crazy people out there. We don’t need reporters fanning the flames.

More on The Pill

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For your Pill files, an article about fewer women taking it:

Frustrated with side effects or uncomfortable with the daily flow of hormones into their bodies, some Canadian women have stopped using the tiny birth-control pills that ushered in an era of reproductive freedom. Vanessa Richmond, a 36-year-old from Vancouver, said she went off the birth-control pill a decade ago because she never felt “quite right.”

…But the continued popularity of the pill doesn’t indicate it is the best form of birth control for women, said Laura Wershler, executive director of Sexual Health Access Alberta in Calgary. Instead, she said, it indicates women don’t know their options.

…”There’s this lack of knowledge and understanding within my own field,” Wershler said. “Women are going to sexual-health clinics and being laughed off by the doctors and clinics for looking for alternatives.”

And when people associated with Planned Parenthood say it (Sexual Health Access Alberta used to be Planned Parenthood) you know at very least this is not a Catholic conspiracy to force women to have babies… Is it just me or is there some freedom of information in the air?

The Globe on abortion breast cancer link

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Pigs are flying, all around me, even as I type this. Sweet vindication, for Maurice Vellacott and any and all of us concerned about the link between abortion and breast cancer (and the link between the Pill and breast cancer, too). Gloria Galloway is right:

…[T]rying to prevent abortions by scaring women with breast cancer would truly be wrong. But so too would be suppressing the risks of abortion or any medical procedure.

Incidentally, I agree with the first part of the statement. The reason freedom of information is important is simply because it’s important. Done. There will someday be an outcry that information was not released and/or publicized on this topic. I’m not saying it’s going to the headline in tomorrow’s paper, but I believe I will live to see that day.

Now that’s depressing

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Anti-depressant drugs may not do anything for moderate depression, says new study.

Some widely prescribed drugs for depression provide relief in extreme cases but are no more effective than placebo pills for most patients, according to a new analysis released Tuesday.

Recently, I have had cause to think there are too many doctors willing to put 100 per cent healthy women on anti-depressants. The ups and downs of life are not meant to be entirely eradicated on a steady stream of medication.

Abortion, the Pill and breast cancer

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A study indicates there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, and the Pill and breast cancer:

…Dr. Brinton’s participation in the study was significant because the NCI has “firmly maintained” a position denying an abortion-breast cancer link since 2003.

The study, titled “Risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer in women under the age of 45 years,” was published in the American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR) medical journal “Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.”

If you could stop just one person from getting cancer, wouldn’t you get the word out on these links?

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Brigitte disagrees: Oh dear me, no. You don’t mention it AT ALL. Instead, what you do is share intimate but meaningless information with strangers in the hopes of “raising awareness” about breast cancer, even though it’s getting hard nowadays to find someone somewhere who isn’t aware of it.

On leadership

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From time to time, someone writes in admonishing our team to “stick to abortion.” Indeed, this is a pro-life blog, but that wasn’t the point of this pro-life blog.

The point was to show that many women have many differing interests and can all be pro-life. So today I find Rebecca Walberg in the Financial Post in an article on leadership. Yesterday it was missile defence. Rebecca has the most varied expertise of anyone I know. Enjoy.

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