It warmed my heart to hear about abortion on the newscast this morning, and then to see abortion as front page news in the National Post. Hats off to Patricia Maloney for breaking the news that Canada too, leaves infants born alive to die. And hats off to Maurice Vellacott and the other two MPs who are asking the RCMP to investigate this. I heard NDP Megan Leslie asking in Question Period–will the Conservative Government confirm that abortion is not murder? Or something to that effect. Just the fact that she asks that questions draws a line for Canadians to what abortion is. Does someone die, or not? Is it right to leave babies to die? Is that murder?

Keep pondering, Canada.

I am ashamed of what our country sanctions in this regard, and I am not proud that we pay for abortions. But I am happy to see the ball inching forward thanks to the tireless and courageous efforts of many pro-lifers across the country.

Finally, as if we didn’t know this, not all women sanction abortion. (I don’t claim to represent those who don’t want to be represented!)

Read about it here:

A trio of backbench Conservative MPs have written to the Mounties to ask for investigations of possible homicides “that appear to have started out as attempted abortions.”

In the Jan. 23 letter, Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott tells RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson that between 2000 and 2009 there were 491 infant deaths in Canada following abortions at 20 weeks gestation or greater that resulted in live births.

“They evacuated out of the womb, so under the Criminal Code definition in Canada, that is a person,” Vellacott told QMI Agency.

Following up on my post of earlier this week, this is a good read on why women in combat are a bad idea. Not words you hear very often. I’d say she is very brave, for more reasons than one.

Should women be involved in front-line combat? Let’s pretend, hypothetically, that physically women could do absolutely everything a man could. This would be rare, but possible. I tend to think that distinctions in service in the military are important for some of the reasons this author outlines. Still, it’s only a very slim minority of women who actually want to engage in this type of combat, so the question is, does it actually matter if one or two women are in armed combat because they desperately want to be?

“It’s a girl should not be a death sentence.” Indeed. A new website to speak out against sex selection abortion. Like it on Facebook, and follow it on Twitter.

Some good quotes here from some good women (myself included) on what Morgentaler means for Canada.

Andrea Mrozek believes that more and more women are beginning to distance themselves from abortion. “For every feminist out there who claims ‘abortion is a woman’s right’ I will rise up forcefully to declare they do not represent me.”

I really mean that.

Love this quote from Charmaine Yoest at Americans United for Life:

The abortion lobby today is a little like the old Soviet bloc, that looked invincible right up to the very day it collapsed under the weight of its own stagnation,” said Dr. Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, at a conference at the National Press Club Thursday afternoon. “The old guard of the Kremlin were on the wrong side of history, the wrong side of science and the truth in very much the same way that Big Abortion is today.”

It really speaks to me because prior to the Soviet Union falling, it wasn’t clear that it would. It appeared to be impenetrable, to almost the very end. And then it was gone. No one today wants to be the one still rooting for the Soviet Union, a repressive, totalitarian regime.

We can’t quite conceive right now of just how abortion will end, but end it will. Because it is a repressive, violent thing and love and life will win out!

(h/t)

Here in Canada, there isn’t much to add about the anniversary of the Morgentaler decision. What a tragic day.

However, this column by Father De Souza takes the tone I’d like to take. Obviously killing off our kids is a great, great tragedy but if we get bogged down and fail to see the sweet, small instances of grace and beauty, then we aren’t helping anyone.

Twenty-five and 40 years later the possibility of a legal future more favourable to life does not appear likely. Yet the great struggle for life is not primarily a legal one, and the work of cultural renewal proceeds by witness, not laws, and by grace.

Twenty-five and 40 years later, the witness has been given, and is being given increasingly today, particularly by the young.

Twenty-five and 40 years later, the contrast between the culture of death and the civilization of love is all the more evident.

Twenty-five and 40 years later, grace is still at work, as it was in the beginning, is and ever shall be.

Interesting article by Jon Kay. The “freedom wall” at Carleton and also the attack against Trinity Western are both reasons to believe he is right. When I read some of the opposition to Trinity Western University it makes me wonder whether the authors have ever, ever given even a cursory examination of what Christian beliefs actually are. Many these days haven’t; and they are running on false assumptions. Also interesting is that it seems the sexuality issues (abortion, homosexuality, marriage) are THE touchstone for freedom of speech in Canada today.

Friends, countrymen, lend me your ear: Today we welcome Faye Sonier as a blogger on ProWomanProLife. I am very excited about this. Faye is passionate about the life issue like no one I know, including myself, and she always has interesting thoughts/comments. Welcome Miss Faye, I am looking forward to reading your posts! You can read a bit more about Faye, here.

In describing the “rules” of blogging for Faye, I thought now would be a good time to mention to readers that actually we hope to increase the non-abortion-related content on this blog. When we started up, this was to be like a pro-life version of The View, and therefore, no topic was off limits. So initially there were some fashion posts, and entertainment posts, but as those dwindled, I would often get feedback to those posts along the lines of “Why did you post that?” To that I say, why not? We are keeping it free and easy over here. We are pro-life women enjoying LIFE to the fullest. That is the true hidden agenda of this blog.

Finally, as we approach five years of existence, that’s five years since the 20th anniversary of the Morgentaler decision, thank you for your continued reading and support. We remain but a small contribution to the pro-life scene, but nonetheless a good place, I hope, for women perhaps isolated on campus or by geography to virtually gather and know that pro-life women are neither an anomaly, nor are we repressed, neither are we an unhappy lot of horrible nags. Finally, finally (I’m wrapping up my Oscar-like speech, here) I know we have lots of male readers too, and I more than appreciate that, since abortion is not fundamentally a “women’s issue.”