Great background music for this little clip.

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrdV3wthfno]

I’m in a bad mood this morning. Which means I should probably step away from the keyboard. Too late.

From the National Post this past weekend, one Kelly Gordon, PhD candidate at University of Ottawa, commenting on the anti-abortion movement:

“That’s a huge part of their strategy,” she said — to focus on “exceptions” rather than the majority of abortion services carried out in Canada.

“There’s no evidence that sex-selective abortions happen in Canada, but that’s definitely an issue in which people say ‘Well I believe in women’s rights, and I thought I believed in abortion, but you know…’” she said. “It disrupts the narrative that abortion is a women’s rights issue.”

Either Kelly Gordon doesn’t know any Indo-Canadians, or she is choosing what she hears and reports very carefully.

These days it is hard to comment on what kind of abortions are happening in Canada. Our official stats are officially shoddy. As someone who has tried to quantify sex selection abortions in Canada, I’ll freely admit there were shortcomings to the very sincere effort I made, furthermore, my work is now out of date. Still, to pretend they don’t happen at all is to foist deceit on the Canadian public.

Another thing: This notion of the movement “rebranding” to include women is a total falsehood, I’m convinced. It seems to me that there have always been equal parts of men and women on both sides of the abortion debate. What has happened in the pro-life movement is that it is increasingly dominated by women.

One notes the irony that the key founders of “abortion rights” are mostly men, Morgentaler and Nathanson, to name but two.

I’m pretty confident Kelly Gordon’s book will mention both me and ProWomanProLife. But she never made any effort to reach out to me and ask any questions.

I would not want to write a book about anything without trying to talk to the people I’m assessing and in effect critiquing, for the fear that my words would ring hollow–people in the movement being assessed generally know when others have made an honest attempt to understand what they are about. No such honest attempt was made here. I have always found it enriching to talk to opponents–like Joyce Arthur and Celia Posniak–both of whom are in the article linked above, both of whom are completely, thoroughly and utterly pro-choice and both of whom have sat down and talked to me.

But not so with our finest minds in academia.

And NOW I will indeed step away from the keyboard.

The question for Trudeau, asks George Jonas, is this:

I wonder if young Mr. Trudeau has ever noticed that women are split right down the middle on this question of their “fundamental rights?”

I do not share his overall pessimism about Canada’s descent into a police state; but then again, he has actually lived through a police state and while my parents escaped one, I have not. And while I feel sidelined and misunderstood as a so-called “so-con,” neither do I feel that I have hit the point of being diagnosed with a psychiatric condition.

I believe that turning the tide on the life issue in Canada will point us all toward greater freedom. I also believe that is precisely what is happening right now, hence my lack of pessimism.

…others run for office. Saira Blair is 17, and just beat the 67-year-old incumbent. In West Virginia. I really know nothing about her. I do know she is anti-abortion and on that, I salute her.

Since all too often really radical pro-choicers will say you have to be pro-choice to be a feminist, I thought I’d take note of some clearly self-sufficient, independent minded women engaging in comments made by Justin Trudeau in a not strictly pro-choice way: Barbara Kay, Margaret Wente and Margaret Somerville.

Not all of those three would call themselves pro-life. Not all would call themselves feminist. But the point remains: Women don’t all think alike. For my “setting the bar low” standards, I’d be very, very happy if radical pro-choicers could stop implying that all women do.

Belgian euthanasia advocate chooses Auschwitz as site for a seminar. No really.

Come on. This is awesome. I do not know who Luis Dizon is, but this is his way of saying #No2Niki:

PS: For International Readers (welcome) Niki is Niki Ashton, Canadian federal Member of Parliament and Opposition Critic for Status of Women, proposing a motion that would declare abortion as a human right on Parliament Hill here. A motion is not a bill, so there’s no teeth–but it’s a good time to debate the issue.

From Alissa Golob over at Campaign Life:

Basically what we are trying to do is ask people across the country to video tape themselves with their phones or webcams asking their MP to vote against Motion 510 (Niki Ashton’s motion) and tweet the video at their MP using the hashtag #No2Niki.

When Rona Ambrose voted in favour of Motion 312, we used this same tactic for women across the country- and videos came pouring in every day. It was hard for me to keep track. Because of the success of that campaign, I thought this would be an excellent way to send a loud and clear message to MPs. Chain e-mails that say the same thing with different people’s signatures at the bottom doesn’t seem to have the same affect- plus most MPs handle their own twitter accounts.

The Facebook event can be found here.

If you want to add your voice to the #No2Niki campaign–then this is your opportunity.

I like this video from ARPA Canada of the March for Life 2014. It shows a) how normal people are b) the wide age and gender range and c) no fixation on the counter-protest. It’s a little bit boring, even, and that’s a good thing. We don’t need to be scared of pro-lifers, folks.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrPf2GKpuzY]

Some Christian movies I’ve seen have been pretty terrible. Bad acting and contrived scenes.

That said, sounds like critics just can’t get their head around Moms Night Out for their own contrived reasons.

I haven’t gone to the movies in a long time, but maybe I will make it out to see this one and decide whether it’s “anti-feminist” for myself.