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Just legal, not safe or rare

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Seems like there are a lot of law suits against Planned Parenthood these days. This one is particularly sad. But what’s a woman to make of this statement from Planned Parenthood?

Planned Parenthood Metropolitan has denied the injuries suffered and the infertility of Shantese Butler. In addition, they state in their answer that Butler’s claims are barred by the doctrines of informed consent and assumption of risk.

The average Canadian woman’s response will, with all seriousness be this: What? There are risks to having an abortion?

This and this imply all legal abortions are safe. This makes it clear that childbirth is more dangerous. (And certainly bearing children has its risks, but is it fair to weigh bringing life into the world against killing?) Cautionary information is so rare on so-called pro-choice sites as to be imaginary. In this notion called being pro-choice, there seem to be strong elements that encourage women to have abortions. I think this is because it’s hard for women to abort their children–it better be physically risk-free, otherwise women wouldn’t so easily choose it. 

Informed consent is not the friend of the pro-abortion movement.

h/t Michelle Malkin

Earthquakes and family policy

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Stories like this highlight the injustice of Communist China’s one child policy. We forget about the horrible nature of this repressive regime–and extreme family planners in North America are so keen on curbing population growth that they almost never comment on the substantial injustice and curtailing of freedom that tells parents they can’t have as many kids as they want. (They also respond to natural disasters with condoms, but that deserves a post of its own.) Folks–Malthus is dead, literally and figuratively.

The May 12 quake was particularly painful to many Chinese because it killed so many only children. …

If the couple’s legally born child is killed and the couple is left with an illegally born child under the age of 18, that child can be registered as the legal child — an important move that gives the child previously denied rights including free nine years of compulsory education.

Ads are deceptive?

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Well, well, well. The Advertising Standards Council has declared that Life Canada’s ads, which we’ve posted about on this site, are “deceptive.” Now that they aren’t isn’t even worth saying here. But since the ASC has decided to weigh in on this issue, I have a couple of other beefs to raise.

When I wear Calvin Klein, I don’t look like like Kate Moss, not even close. When I purchase J Crew, no preppy man and golden retriever appear. And even when I buy Martha Stewart’s magazine, my apartment does not magically begin to look well-decorated… I’m only warming up here. I could keep going.  

If the Advertising Standards Council wants to weigh in on deceptive ads, they better get busy. And get the ideologues who only see deception when it comes to abortion off their board.

Fact: There is no abortion law in Canada. What more do they need to know?

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Brigitte wonders: How long do you think it will take me to make that delicious-looking cake on the cover of this month’s Martha Stewart Living (to which I’ve subscribed faithfully for years)? Should I ask the Council? What if they tell me it’ll take me twice as long as the magazine claims, because only Martha Stewart can produce baking wonders in the alloted time? Should I feel offended? Should we all be offended by a Council that tells us we can’t understand as simple a message as “it is technically legal in Canada for a pregnant woman to abort her unborn child throughout the nine months of her pregnancy”?

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Andrea wonders: Whether or not the Advertising Standards Council’s web site itself is a bit “deceptive”. Because I just clicked over to their site, and all the people pictured look friendly. Check it out for yourself. (And yes, I’ve just linked you to the “How to submit a complaint” page, and yes, I will be sending them a friendly letter, myself. Feel free to do likewise, if the spirit moves you. Trust me, I can think of better things to do with my spare time, but this cro-magnon man “ruling” is just too much.)  

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Update: You can read more about this story, here, from today’s National Post in British Columbia.

What am I supposed to do with my wardrobe now?

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Time to go shopping, I guess. In the Weekend Post yesterday: “Have you heard the news? The ‘ho’ look is over.”

Call me crazy, but I believe that there might just be more to being a woman than prancing around dressed up like a Stepford blow-up doll. Non? In my experience you gals are highly idiosyncratic creatures whose true essence is riddled with subtlety and nuance. Your sizzling sexuality is only one aspect of a complex and intriguing picture.

If it’s true that this trend is over–not a moment too soon.

C for “child abandonment” in the self-help section

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A new book explains sagely how to leave your child successfully:

Expect also that your child may be “very, very angry.” Remember “even if the only thing your daughter has to say to you is how much she hates you, take heart. Hate is not the opposite of love, indifference is.” If your child sends an angry text message, “Let her express her anger without letting the content affect you too much,” writes Hart. Tell her, “I know you are very angry. I’m truly sorry that things have turned out this way.”

Very comforting for mothers in horrific family situations everwhere, I’m sure. The author is British–this is a real bang-up week for news from England, let me tell you. “God save the Queen?” God save England.

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Rebecca adds: It’s worth clarifying that this isn’t about how successfully to leave your child with a babysitter for the evening, or at a daycare during the work week. (We all know children who react with rage and betrayal at being left with a trusted sitter for three hours, once a year, so Mum and Dad can go to a restaurant.) It’s about mothers who choose not to live with their (quite young) children.

Yet another taboo that we’re well on the way to normalizing, it seems.

Why we’re not allowed to question the “choice” mantra

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By now you’ve heard the story that the abortion rate in Canada declined in the most recent survey period. Good, and yet, really–not good enough.

 

If we take the Guttmacher Institute’s (research arm of Planned Parenthood, an American group) reasons for why women have an abortion, and we take the number of abortions in Canada, 96,815 for 2004-2005, approximately the following number of people were not born in Canada for the following reasons that year:

(please note we have no Canadian equivalent of the Guttmacher stats so this is all very approximate)

 

20,330 people died for inadequate finances

20,330 people died because the woman isn’t ready

15,490 people died because the woman’s life would change too much

11,618 people died because there are problems in the relationship; the woman is unmarried

10,650 people died because the girl is too young

7,745 people died because the woman has all the children she wants

2,904 people died because the woman has a health problem

2,904 people died because the baby has health problems

968 people died because of rape or incest

3,873 people died for “other” reasons.  

(Average number of reasons given, 3.7)

 

I gather this is why we’re not allowed to question “a woman’s choice”: once you begin to question that, you wonder whether these are good reasons for killing people. Everyone, of course, draws their own line in the sand somewhere. 

 

Oh, and yes, I’ve heard the “I hope you are a pacifist” argument—indeed, were a war waged exclusively against women and children, I would protest it. That’s all I have to say about that.

What Planned Parenthood Ottawa just doesn’t (appear to) do

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Say you are facing a crisis pregnancy and you need crisis pregnancy counseling. Where do you go?

 

If charitable agency filings with Canadian Revenue Agency are correct, not Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood Edmonton and Waterloo devote 30 per cent of the budget to crisis counselling, and though it’s not clear, Planned Parenthood Toronto may do the same. Planned Parenthood Ottawa—only 5 per cent.

 

The others? None.

 

How Planned Parenthood spends its resources is copied below. But check the Canada Revenue Agency to see for yourself. 

 

Could be that I’m missing something. Maybe they offer counseling and don’t itemize it that way for Revenue Canada. But right now it sure does look hypocritical that Planned Parenthood Ottawa would complain about places like First Place Pregnancy Centre. First Place is just doing what Planned Parenthood appears not to: Ongoing crisis counseling and long-term support.

 

 

The following is taken from the Revenue Canada website:  

Program areas: The three primary areas in which the charity is now carrying on programs to achieve its charitable purposes are listed below. The program areas are ranked according to the percentage of time and resources devoted to each program area.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OTTAWA-CARLETON/PLANNING DES NAISSANCES D’OTTAWA-CARLETON, 2005

1          Promotion and protection of health (see guide)          F8                  50%

2          Public education, other study programs                      C10               45%

3          Family and crisis counselling, financial counselling   A11                5%

 

 

Planned Parenthood Toronto 2006

Rank   Description                                                                  Field Code   % of
Emphasis

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   30%

2           Specialized health organizations (see guide)            F9                   30%

3           Clinics                                                                      F3                   30%

 

 

Planned Parenthood Edmonton 2006

1          Family and crisis counselling, financial counselling          A11     34%

2          Public education, other study programs                            C10      33%

3          Promotion and protection of health (see guide)                 F8        33%

 

Planned Parenthood Fredericton 2005

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   100%

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA 2006

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)          F8                   85%

2           Public education, other study programs                     C10                 15%

 

Planned Parenthood Regina 2006

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   100%

 

Planned Parenthood Saskatoon 2006

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   100%

 

Planned Parenthood Hamilton 2006

1           Clinics                                                                       F3                   80%

2           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   20%

 

Planned Parenthood Waterloo 2007

1          Family and crisis counselling, financial counselling          A11     30%

2          Public education, other study programs                            C10     30%

3          Promotion and protection of health (see guide)                        F8        20%

Couldn’t care less

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It’s nice sometimes to be able to read a blog with some accompanying music… I just want everyone to know that I’m posting this “coolly and dispassionately.” Save for the fact that I recently launched a pro-life web site, and am now staking my very being and reputation on being a smart and savvy pro-life woman who knows better than to advocate for abortion on the basis that it is a “woman’s right,” save for all that, I really couldn’t care less. In short:

It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

–REM

Medieval justice–if even that advanced

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In practice, this failure to limit abortion to 20 or 22 weeks doesn’t mean that much–most abortions are done earlier than that. But in theory, it means we are perfectly happy to kill babies that could live on their own (in spite of the fact that doctors find it traumatising). I mentioned before it’s a debate I wouldn’t want to have–because a life is a life from conception. But it is depressing to say the least, that given 3-D imaging, and all we know about life today that we maintain medieval conceptions of justice and decency into the 21st century.  

 

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