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Sounds like a story to me

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One of the inventors of the birth control pill denounces…his own invention: 

Djerassi outlined the “horror scenario” that occurred because of the population imbalance, for which his invention was partly to blame. He said that in most of Europe there was now “no connection at all between sexuality and reproduction”. He said: “This divide in Catholic Austria, a country which has on average 1.4 children per family, is now complete.”

He described families who had decided against reproduction as “wanting to enjoy their schnitzels while leaving the rest of the world to get on with it”. 

The fall in the birth rate, he said, was an “epidemic” far worse – but given less attention – than obesity. Young Austrians, he said, were committing national suicide if they failed to procreate. And if it were not possible to reverse the population decline they would have to understand the necessity of an “intelligent immigration policy”.

Sounds like a story, but we aren’t hearing about it, as Get Religion points out. (That’s because a lack of information, old, stale news, and pats on the back and possibly high fives for whatever we choose are fundamental women’s rights.)

Price check, price check: sanctimonious shopper in aisle 2

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I laughed when I read this column. And while it centres on sanctimonious shoppers and their bags–it is about a mentality: Give me canvas or give me death, those who believe fair trade coffee actually makes the world a better place, etc. For the record, I agree, reusable bags are better. But I’ll be “blessed” too, as Hannaford puts it, if I lose my sense of priorities, and figure that not using plastic bags is actually “making a difference”. Getting their knickers in a knot over the wrong things, indeed.

Too many people are getting incensed over the wrong things. Years ago on Vancouver Island, I saw the same people who publicly demonstrated to save the forests, wave placards supporting abortion at a different demo. Today, you can be all kinds of things that weren’t cool 50 years ago, but if you bring your own shopping bag, you’re halfway to being a good person.

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Véronique adds: Yesterday, we went to the grocery store as a family. All seven of us. I asked my designated driver (a.k.a. husband) to please park in the pregnant ladies parking spot: I am having an increasingly hard time staying upright in deep snow and ice (I am 34 weeks and 2 days pregnant, not that anybody is counting…). I think that pregnant ladies parking spots should be reassigned as mothers of toddlers parking spots becauser what is really riskier? A pregnant woman in a parking lot or a mother of three kids under age four trying to make her way to the mall entrance? If you have been either, the answer is a no-brainer.

Anyhoo, half-way through the grocery shopping experience (and grocery shopping with 5 kids is an experience, believe me)–it became obvious that we would not make it on time for my daughter’s gymnastics class next door. So I abandoned ship, grabbed said daughter and proceeded to walk over two snowbanks and three parking lots to the gym, thus proving the futility of pregnant ladies parking spots. But, this is NOT the point. By doing so, I left my non-pregnant husband to bring back the groceries and remaining four children to the vehicle.

Oh My. He said he got so many evil eyes, he thought he was morally bankrupt. Some people even slowed down to stare at him pack his groceries into his immorally-parked vehicle. But maybe they were looking at our plastic bags. Or at our large family-sized gas-guzzler. Who knows?

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Brigitte has fun shopping adventures to share, too: I was at evil Wal-Mart the other day, one of the more recent “super” stores that’s even bigger than big. And I noticed, in the gigantic grocery section, that the freezers and fridges had motion sensors on them so that if nobody stands in front of them they are mostly dark but suddenly get all lighty-light (LED bulbs too, unless I’m mistaken) when you walk or stand right in front of them. And I thought to myself: There! It takes an evil capitalist merchant to be so dang smart about not wasting energy! YAY WAL-MART! I must have looked a bit funny standing there, imagining the save-the-earth types chewing off their own right arm rather than give any kind of green credit to Wal-Mart…

Something very wrong, no matter how you look at it

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A 37-year-old kills her newborn baby because she doesn’t want her parents to know she’s having premarital sex? Sounds very fishy to me; something is not being reported here. Still, you can’t help but think had she killed the baby a month or two before she was born, there would have been no trial, no courtroom, and no attempt to lay charges.

Jody Ann Lee, 37, of Barrie, pleaded guilty to infanticide and failing to provide the necessities of life after police found her newborn baby girl stuffed into plastic bags in the trunk of her car Nov. 8, 2005.  Lee is allowed to spend three days a week with the surviving twin at her home where she lives with her parents as she awaits sentencing, court has heard.

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Tanya adds: “Doctors say she [the infant victim] had taken her first few breaths of life.”

And that’s the reason this story is getting any press. It’s the reason the mother of this child, the one being accused of infanticide, can be called “manipulative and devious” while onlookers nod in agreement.

I don’t believe the public’s scrutiny of this woman would have softened had the child been born with a heart defect or with down’s syndrome. But a child in the womb, even one past the age of viability, can be aborted with only sympathy for the mother. It just can’t be explained.

This is “lashing out”. Really?

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You know my bias. I like Sarah Palin. Yahoo News tells me “Sarah Palin is Lashing Out At The Media–AGAIN.” I go check it out and this is what I find. CNN commentators who can’t shut up, and about 20 seconds of Palin looking fairly composed. (If this constitutes “lashing out,” you have to be hanging out with some really boring folks.)

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v87FjdgUy40]

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Brigitte says: Hey! (Am I boring?)

Seriously: If she’d denied bias, they wouldn’t have believed her. If she’d shut up, they would have said she was afraid to speak for fear of hurting her chances in 2012. They will not give her any chance at all. I think she can manage pretty well regardless, mind.

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Tanya might need to watch this again: but did the CNN guy actually compare Sarah Palin and her image to Dan Quale and the P-O-T-A-T-O incident?  That can’t be right…tell me I heard wrong, please.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvidXkvaciU]

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Andrea adds: No, Brigitte, you are not boring. Quite the opposite. My point was that if the news editors at CNN think this is “lashing out”–Sarah Palin quietly and demurely sitting by–then they need to get out more. And possibly have a chat with just about anyone in my family. We’ll show them “lashing out.” Oh ya.

“Achieving Peace in the Abortion War”

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New book out by psychologist Rachel MacNair. Should be interesting:

Applying the principles of peace psychology to the abortion situation of the United States, this book shows that the insights of the psychology of violence that are so well known from the practice of war and similar killing can also apply to abortion. Most particularly, evidence for the effect that the practice has on the doctors and nurses that do it is detailed. Also, the drive for consistency of the human mind interplays with this to show us something about effective strategy: as people understand the practice is declining, it becomes safer to hear what’s wrong with it, and it becomes more likely for people to try to explain the decline by noting what’s wrong with it.

Pro-abortion folks will often complain when anti-abortion folks are not pacifists.(Hypocrisy charges.) But if you are against most or all wars because they are killing, then you most assuredly cannot afford to be pro-abortion. Rachel MacNair is a pacifist…(I’m not.) But I appreciate her unique angle and I’m keenly interested in what MacNair has to say about the effects on doctors and nurses who are involved with killing for a living; and this “people understand the practice is declining, it becomes safer to hear what’s wrong with it,” intrigues me too.

Tim Tebow–rebel with a cause

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This article is a quick biography of quarterback Tim Tebow, a homeschooled Christian who is apparently very good at the sport.

In only three years of college ball, Tebow has already won a national championship and just about every individual award he has been eligible for. Yet it his character, rather than his athletic accomplishments, that have earned him a wide following.

Then this, on what it means to rebel on college today:

Those familiar with the university scene have noticed a new creature on campus in this generation — the culturally conservative, clean-living, academically successful, well-rounded, socially savvy, religiously observant student. He has not displaced his debauched classmates as the new big man on campus, but he is a leader and accepted part of the campus scene — a definite change in the 20 years since I started university. The clean-living Christian is the true rebel on campus, there being nothing else to rebel against, save for licentious living.

We have every freedom–one of the few rebellious things left is to choose to be clean cut–and proud of it.

Glad to hear of a role model like this guy. (Also of note in the article is that his mom was advised to abort him.)

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Brigitte notes: Score another one against baby-boomers. They even managed to ruin teenage rebellion.

Because everyone loves a good top ten

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Top Ten Pro-Abortion Moments in 2008, here. Some of these are actually quite funny (see no. 3). Others are revealing. Others are, of course, sad. But let’s focus on the humourous, shall we? My favourite is definitely no. 3.

Justin Timberlake/Jessica Biel

“Nobody should be able to say what you can do with your body,” Biel told cheering crowds at Last Chance for Change, a rally endorsing presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. “I give Jess the right to choose where we go to eat all the time,” Timberlake added.

Wow. What a man.

(h/t Michelle Malkin)

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Brigitte swoons: That’s, like, soooo romantic!

Smart move

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I just received this press release from Carleton Lifeline, Carleton University’s pro-life club–about a Silent No More event they’ll hold tomorrow:

Women speak about their abortion experience at Carleton University

“Abortion does hurt women… it hurt me” – Angelina Steenstra

On January 8th, 2009 at 11:30 AM in University Center 182 at Carleton University, members of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC) will share their experiences with abortion.

This event is open to the public.

Angelina Steenstra, the National Director of the Campaign will be one of the guest speakers. The event is hosted by Carleton Lifeline – the pro-life club at Carleton University. The purpose of the event and the Campaign is to provide women with an opportunity to share the difficulties that they faced after having an abortion, to reach out to those who may be
suffering and let people know there is help available.

The event is a good example of Carleton’s new project to create a university that “questions everything” and “challenges conventional thinking.”

Two months ago the SNMAC speakers were unable to present their testimonies due to a complaint from a student, which led to the guests being ordered to leave University grounds.

The club has had trouble with expressing their views previously. Two years ago the Student government nearly shut the club down.

Ruth Lobo, president of Lifeline, says, “We expect this event to proceed without incident after booking and confirming with our student union.”

For More Information
Ruth Lobo, Carleton Lifeline President, [email protected] , 613 – 796 – 1405

“The event is a good example of Carleton’s new project to create a university that “questions everything” and “challenges conventional thinking.”

So glad the university administration and student union is finally onside with allowing learning on campus. Let’s wait and see if they really mean it. (I understand a Silent No More event was unceremoniously booted off campus in the past.)

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