As it turns out, I re-read Tasha’s piece and while it remains simply splendid, I will comment on one thing I believe she got wrong:

It is wrong for anti-abortionists to seek to outlaw the practice entirely, when that would mean the denial of a woman’s right to bodily integrity, a return to back-alley abortions, or situations such as the recent case in Ireland where doctors refused to perform an abortion that would have saved the mother’s life.

As I’ve said many times before, abortion does not save women’s lives. Canada’s maternal mortality was sharply declining long before abortion became legal. I mentioned that in this piece, and I think it’s important to emphasize here.

To be perfectly clear, no one, not even the Catholic Church (gasp) has a problem when, in attempting medical care of a woman, the baby dies as a consequence of attempting to provide care. But this is not the same as deliberately targetting the baby for death.

I’ll happily hear from Catholics if I’m wrong on this one. I hope I’ve represented the Catholic view correctly.

Even if I’m wrong on that, then the Andrea Mrozek (TM) opinion still stands, which is that deliberate killing does not save lives. But sadly, sometimes, babies will die as doctors attempt to care for the mother (and baby).

Couldn’t have said it better myself:

The abortion of baby girls has become a worldwide epidemic.

It happens in Canada too, and we’d be giving the women who feel pressure to abort for this reason some encouragement not to do so, if the House universally condemned the practice.

They are granting the pro-life club status after all. You can read about it, here.

Press conference yesterday, some people already unable to put politics aside and just say, Hey. This. Makes. Sense.(It’s a motion, not a bill, so like M-312, no legislative teeth.)

…fetus? Whether one is wanted or not shouldn’t change the substance of what one is.

I don’t find this laugh-out-loud funny, however, it does make some interesting points about the culture we live in and some of the less-than-stellar ways that men and women behave in the bar scene. It doesn’t make men or women look particularly great, but because it’s Slate and not me making the critique, there’s some small chance people might actually pay attention.

The National Post reports that the student group that wants club status at Kwantlen Polytechnic University is suing:

Oliver Capko, a first-year agriculture student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Langley, B.C., had applied for his group, Protectores Vitae, to become a funded campus club, but the Kwantlen Student Association’s executive denied that status because it is a pro-choice student government.

Mr. Capko and the Protectores members were offered the unfunded ‘recognized group’ status, which the KSA gives to political and religious groups, but has declined. “It is unfortunate that we have to sue our own student representatives in order to secure equal and fair treatment on campus,” Mr. Capko said in a statement. “We are not religious, nor are we political.”

Feminists for Life has put out what looks to be a good resource called “Hard Cases, Exceptional Choices.” It chronicles the really rough cases of women who were raped but chose non-violence (their words, but I like them, since abortion is a violent act) for their children. It chronicles the stories of women conceived in rape, as well as the difficult cases of babies who lived only two hours due to medical conditions.

We need to hear more of these inspiring stories in order for more women to make similar choices.

I think my sister did this kind of kicking of yours truly on long car rides.

This article leads one to believe that her request for an abortion was not clear.