Andrea Mrozek – Page 23

Lashing out at people who “keep their kids”

September 29, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 8 Comments

This family has been called “selfish” because they didn’t kill their son in the womb when he had a bad diagnosis. He’s now 13 months and doing well. They cherish every day they have with him and never want to lose him. But others are calling them “selfish” for “keeping” their child.

I have this theory that when people lash out in strange ways, it’s because they have made some life choices they are uncomfortable with. (Another reason is because you are a jackass, but we’ll leave that be for now.) So one reason why you would do this cruel thing to a family is because you yourself killed your child in the womb, and you struggle with it. People want to feel better, not worse, about their choices, even bad ones.

It is I, Captain Obvious: It’s not selfish to keep your kid. I could go on a neat little rant about this, but I’ll spare you for today.

This is Jaxon, 13 months old in spite of a terminal diagnosis.

Why is abortion ignored?

September 24, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 4 Comments

I have never argued that abortion is the only social problem we have. Or even the worst social problem we have. That said, it’s a terrible problem, a blight on a compassionate, democratic country, that we would accept abortion, even embrace it as a “solution.”

So why don’t people see it as such? Lea Singh explains. She leaves us with a question though:

Breaking the mass hypnosis is an urgent need. But how? I am not quite sure.

I have some ideas, which I’ll talk about in a later post.

On mercy killings

September 21, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 2 Comments

This mother wants us to hear her story. I read it in full. I confess I read it and wanted a mercy killing for me for the sheer frustration of it all. Is there a different world I can go to where compassion is defined as caring, not killing? Is there a place I can go where people look for and seek out the miraculous? Where people support a mother and her child with a terrible diagnosis? Is there a place where doctors are not given the final say, because they are so often wrong? Is there a place where how we feel about hard circumstances is allowed to be expressed without altering the realities of life? Is there a place where we don’t try to “kill death” as if we could all live problem-free forever? (She basically beat death to the punch.)

No one is claiming her circumstance wasn’t hard. It is. I just can’t see how her course of action is better, more honourable, or even easier for her than carrying the baby to term and letting nature take its course.

Fact checking the fact checkers

September 18, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 3 Comments

I’m glad Carly Fiorina held her ground about Planned Parenthood and the macabre business they run in the Republican debates last night (which I didn’t watch).

Needless to say, folks are saying she is lying, and they claim to have fact checked it all too.

So my friend Glenn Stanton fact checked the fact checkers. Guess who is right?

Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina speaks during the Women’s Conference of Florida luncheon held in Tampa, Thursday, March 19, 2015. Fiorina is founder of the Unlocking Potential Project a conservative based political action committee. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Octavio Jones)

How awkward

September 18, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

This photo and post has gone viral. She mentions something–of course we’ll probably never know if she is talking about abortion or infanticide–but I note none of the experts are commenting on that:

I was feeling sad that people kill babies, like on purpose…”

It is “sad that people kill their babies on purpose.”

Legalese on consent, torts and “punishing women for having sex”

September 11, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

Folks who persist in believing that pro-lifers in general and me in specific want to “punish women for having sex” are alive and well. (Just see Huff Post commentors on any pro-life post for unhinged and unjustified canards.)

That this doesn’t even remotely connect with the pro-life mentality is clear.

For starters, pro-lifers don’t view a baby as a punishment. It’s fanatical pro-choicers who do. Abortion gets rid of this punishment, this raining on their parade by an angry lightbolt throwing god.

Secondly, there is not any concept of “punishing women” in the pro-life movement. When there is responsibility to be taken, pro-lifers want men and women to share it equally, understanding that sex is not done alone.

Pro-lifers are guilty as charged when it comes to being realistic. We understand–and accept–the basics of the world. If dark clouds cross the sky, it is likely to rain. If the car runs out of gas, it is going to stop. If we add baking soda to vinegar it will make one of those volcano science projects you did in grade school. If sperm meets egg at a particular time of the month for women, it may make a baby.

This is no one’s fault. Neither is it anyone’s “punishment.” It simply is.

That’s why I like this legalese post from Secular Pro-Life Perspectives. It’s smart. It’s reasonable. It’s the opposite of Huff post commentators. Read and enjoy.

This is why we’ll always have an abortion debate

September 10, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 4 Comments

It’s so hard to truly conceal what abortion actually is and what it does:

Immediately, I was: ‘I’m going to do this, I’m going to carry all three,’ because I didn’t want to kill a baby,” Smith recalled. “(But) as soon as I sent (the couple) the email that there were three heartbeats, he said ‘We need to find out about reduction right away’ … They absolutely didn’t want three babies.”

Bold is mine.

The Globe supports graphic images

September 3, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 6 Comments

I agree with their assessment. For the migrant crisis, which is indeed a moral crisis, as for other crises:

In a world filled with graphic horrors, the Western media have become increasingly squeamish about showing what war, famine or death actually look like. There is an understandable fear of upsetting the audience, and a well-founded reluctance to be seen making a market out of the suffering of others. But some upsetting images demand to be seen, precisely because they are a true representation of reality. They show us the world as it is, its cruelties exposed, and not the world as we would wish it to be. And by the shock to our eyes, our conscience may be stirred.

That said, I cannot re-post the picture of that little boy. My conscience is finely tuned, it is very stirred, and I cannot stop seeing it. I know PWPL readers share this disposition.

Handy, yes

September 3, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 2 Comments

A hat tip to someone I’ve never heard of, @adamsentz for this:

“Handy Venn Diagram of people who think the @CtrMedProgress videos are “fake” and people who haven’t watched them.”

Planned Parenthood Ottawa’s hubris

September 2, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 5 Comments

When I pitched this piece to the Post, I told them, truthfully, that I did not want to write about this Planned Parenthood debacle in the USA. It started in July and I avoided writing about it, until now. I felt compelled when I saw Planned Parenthood Ottawa using depravity to raise funds.

Hopefully the general public in Canada is starting to get a better idea of why Planned Parenthood donations might diminish. BTW, for the reader who is aghast and reading this for the first time, Planned Parenthood does not contest the videos, the veracity of the videos or the fact that they sell human parts. They only contest that they make profit by it. Which is the part that would get them in trouble with the law. Whereas the rest of it is merely deeply troubling.

BTW, many are asking me, how do we know Planned Parenthood in Canada doesn’t do the same thing? They don’t have clinics, is why. They can refer to private clinics and hospitals. They can support their USA counterpart from the sidelines–which they do–but without the clinical capacity to do abortions, they can’t actually sell human body parts/babies/beating hearts. That’s my understanding at this point. If anyone has capacity to correct, feel free. What we don’t know is whether private abortion clinics and/or hospitals are engaging in this practice.

Here’s my piece.

Why specifically now would Planned Parenthood donations diminish? This a question they would rather let fade into obscurity.

On July 28, a group calling themselves the Center for Medical Progress began releasing the results of an investigative sting operation into the practices of Planned Parenthood south of the border. Two actors, posing as buyers of organs for research purposes, took undercover video purportedly showing that Planned Parenthood in the United States engages in the sale of fetal hearts, livers, kidneys and heads (“calvarium”) for profit.

The video evidence, all of which is available in full online, shows Planned Parenthood executives in different states discussing fetal organs with infinitely less concern than your auto mechanic discusses car parts.

Quotes include one Planned Parenthood director, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, saying, “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver … so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.” This while drinking a glass of wine and munching on a salad.

Additional videos show Planned Parenthood lab techs showing off bloody body parts — little legs, hands and arms — to the actors posing as buyers, declaring when it was “another boy” or a twin. The discussion of financial benefits is frequent and forthcoming, with one Planned Parenthood exec saying that “she wants a Lamborghini.”

Are times ever so tough that the body parts of aborted fetuses should go up for sale?

Lauren Dobson-Hughes is the President of Planned Parenthood Ottawa, concerned that donations are going down. Here’s why they might.

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