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If she says it…

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See the author’s note, below.

Lynn’s Notes:

There were times when I actually sat down and tried to figure out what I actually accomplished during the day. With so many demands on a Mom’s time, it was hard to account for the hours. I looked forward to evenings when the kids were in bed, so I could work. I looked forward to holidays and weekends, so I could work. Doing a daily comic strip took an amazing amount of time and I needed to be alone when I was writing. I could draw with life going on around me, but the kids soon learned to ask for cookies and ice cream. When I wasn’t able to concentrate. I usually said “yes”!

Isn’t it strange that we call an actual paying job “work” and don’t consider raising children hard work as well. I confess, being a good mom is one of the most challenging JOBS on the planet!!

There’s Andrea making sense again

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Amazing that we need to keep saying things like this, but apparently we do. And here’s Andrea saying it very well indeed, in today’s Ottawa Citizen:

Dr. Tim Rowe, a British Columbia-based doctor and editor of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, calls having doctors prescribe the pill “paternalistic,” comparing this to the fact that men don’t have to see a doctor to get condoms. It’s almost as if he wants the pill available at gas stations in coin operated dispensers next to cheap perfumes.

For his sake, let’s compare and contrast: Condoms are not ingested and they don’t contain synthetic hormones. They don’t need to be taken at a particular time of day and won’t have their use continued even when there’s no sexual activity. They don’t change the makeup of a man’s body or alter the release of sperm. The World Health Organization did not classify condoms as a known carcinogen. (Yes, you read that right. WHO classified the pill as a carcinogen in 2005.) Virtually all men will acknowledge they’d never stand to take something as body altering as the pill. Not so with women: The late Barbara Seaman, an investigative journalist, wrote a book about treating women with hormones called The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women. In it she documents how the pill came to be and at what cost.

Well, now, they’ll be dancing in the streets!

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Hey, remember all the people who had the vapours over the Harper government’s decision not to fund abortion as part of its maternal health initiative? It was all for nothing.

Despite its refusal to consider abortion in its maternal-health plan, the Harper government has given financial support to an international agency that provides abortion illegally in some African countries.

Words suddenly fail…

Add this one to your “Can these people get more barbaric?” files

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Couple executed over affair:

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan – A man and woman have been stoned to death in northern Afghanistan after being accused by the Taliban of having a love affair, a witness and an official said Monday.

The 23-year-old woman and 28-year-old man were killed because “they had an affair,” said Mohammad Ayob, the governor of Imam Sahib district in Kunduz province.

“Two people were stoned to death by Taliban in Mullah Quli village late yesterday,” he said. The village is under the control of the Taliban.

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Under Islamic Sharia law, sex between unmarried people is punishable by public beatings, while punishment for those caught in extra-marital affairs is death by stoning.

Update: Well, actually, there’s worse… (warning: horrifyingly graphic image)

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