Free speech wall torn down by seventh year human rights students. I’m chuckling as I write. And in total agreement with Fred Litwin, founder and director of the Freethinking Film Society:

Only someone who had gone to university could write something so utterly stupid,” said Fred Litwin, the Ottawa-based creator of the blog Gay and Right, in reference to Mr. Smith’s Tuesday morning Facebook post.

Indeed.

Not a spoof? Really? Wow. This is an ad for the Center for Reproductive Rights. Apparently a group of people with no emotion, no taste, and a large side order of the diabolic.

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(h/t)

My friend Brian Lilley is asking for our support. I would love it if we could help him out. Brian is an upstanding guy, dedicated to the promotion of pro-life ideals in Canada, in a respectful manner.

Here’s his note, and the petition is here.

As I mentioned, Sun News has asked for a change to our licence that will allow us to have the same treatment that CBC and CTV had when they launched. Right now there are few Canadians that can even choose to order and watch Sun News since many cable companies will not carry it at all. Sun News has been a strong voice supporting pro-life, pro-family and limited government ideals. This is what my show, Byline, has been about from the beginning. While this makes us different from the rest, I see that as a good thing since we add a news and diverse voice to the conversation. We are asking friends to help us out by signing our petition which will tell the CRTC that Sun News is a valued service that all Canadians should have access to. You can sign up by visiting www.CanadianTVFirst.ca

Thanks so much,

Brian

Indeed, it is time for a new feminism. High time. I was listening to a talk the other day in which the speaker declared that women will always be better women than men, and men will always be better men than women. The problem therefore with feminism is that a small minority of women decided being a woman was not worthwhile, and so they forced all women to compete in the race to become more like men, on their terms. It’s not a game we can win. Nor should we even try. It amazes me sometimes how profoundly anti-female feminists are.

Anyway, the most profound way in which feminists demand that women be more like men is in our abortion-friendly culture. And that’s why I appreciated this article. Certainly the number of women who get it is growing.

I’m not alone in challenging the old feminism, in which women’s equality comes at the cost of their femininity. By continuing to promote abortion, lawmakers, politicians, social workers, lawyers, educators, and all parties with a vested interest in women’s health and wellbeing distract themselves from providing women the resources and tools they really need to be happy and healthy.

A good analysis of the Time magazine article. Much more nuanced than what I posted (without reading the article first, for shame).

This quote strikes me as true to a certain extent:

A feminist leader once said that most Americans are pro-life with three exceptions: rape, incest, and “my situation.”

The sly seduction of abortion works very well on all of us, even those who previously claimed to be pro-life.

It’s called Crescendo. Coming soon to a theatre near you. The trailer looks intriguing.

The article I linked to highlights how Pattie Malette (Bieber’s mom) wouldn’t have kept him without converting to Christianity first. And I’m sure many will use this knowledge to simplistically say “all pro-lifers are religious.” I say thank goodness for the different worldview Christianity provides, one in which people prioritize people. We should be grateful to Christianity, whether we practice it as a faith or not, for teaching us to put people first and acknowledge the humanity of the small, the weak and the powerless.

I have not purchased one myself, but a ProWomanProLife reader asked me if I knew of anyone looking to buy personalized iPhone cases. And so I thought there would be little problem in indicating these are for sale on the site. They look cute and there is certainly a wide range of options. I have not purchased one myself, because my iPhone 3GS is on its last legs and I will need to upgrade soon. Anyhoo, here is the necessary link to consider. Also here. Apparently shipping to Canada is no problem. (This PWPL reader is in the USA.)

Vilifying those people who dismember babies in the third trimester in utero is not the point.

I know, as do most, that the line between good and evil lies within every human heart. This is not to say that pro-lifers are Good and abortion providers are Bad. We are both subject to the same sinful temptations. It is to say that abortion providers are relying on the evil side in their hearts on this issue and are choosing not to pay attention to that which could be truly good, right and beautiful. The women getting these abortions are described as crying and being in anguish–with good reason.

This is not something we can be relativistic about. Babies, clearly babies, even if sick, even if dying, are still people and when we dismember them limb from limb for no reason or for a very good reason, we do wrong.

And by the way, I don’t care whether abortion providers look like ogres or my grandmother:

Robinson decided, “I want to be a face that is not that gruesome guy from Philadelphia, Gosnell, those ghastly botched abortions. He’s the face of late abortion. I look like someone’s grandmother. It’s a little harder to make me into a bloody butcher.”

Actually, it’s not that hard at all.

If you are against assisted suicide and euthanasia, then you will like to sign this declaration, as I have already done.

Father Raymond de Souza writes about Lance Armstrong. Nothing much to do with life or abortion, but I really like his writing style.

Finally, this:

Lance may well prosper again, for a dishonest age honours its own,”

made me think about how some have honoured Henry Morgentaler. If it’s a dishonest age then it should come as no great surprise when cheaters (or murderers, as the case may be) prosper.