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The schizophrenia of a socially constructed “right”

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Moral inconsistencies are never better illustrated than in real life.

Check out these two stories, printed a day apart. In the one, we have Megan Huntsman charged with six counts of first degree murder and receiving a life sentence for each newborn child that she suffocated.

In the next story a day later, we have “Lisa” glibly discussing her four abortions thus;

With the first one, you don’t know what’s going to happen. You’re scared and anxious. But once you see all the other women there, it doesn’t make you feel that bad.

And it does get easier with the more you have. I know that sounds really bad, but that is just how it is.

Megan Huntsman killed her children because she had a drug addiction and didn’t want the responsibility of raising her children.

“Lisa” killed her children because each was fathered by a different man and she didn’t want the responsibility of raising her children.

One will go to jail and quite possibly never see the light of day again. Had she had her six children killed a few days earlier through an abortion procedure, FOR THE SAME REASONS we would never have known her name.  Today she is a social pariah and a convicted felon.

Lisa on the other hand, will walk free. We will never know her real name because it has been protected, and she can carry on her life under the guise of anonymity, having more abortions if she so chooses.

The doctors who she had kill her four children will continue to dismember countless more and earn a great living doing so.

The only difference between these two mothers is that “Lisa” had the sense to have her children “terminated” through legal abortion. She played the game right.

There you have the great injustice and the horror of legal abortion, and the schizophrenia of a socially constructed “right” that is vehemently and aggressively defended, while violating everything that is decent about life.

 

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New video supporting physicians’ conscience rights

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Excellent video covering the issue of freedom of conscience for our physicians.  Please pass this on.  Our doctors deserve our support.

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5__4VyeRYZQ&feature=youtu.be]

 

Visit CMDScanada.org for more information and resources, such as talking points, bulletin inserts and posters, and action points to have your voice heard.  http://www.cmdscanada.org/ConscienceProtection.aspx

 

Deadline to submit feedback is Feb. 20, 2015 in Ontario.  Your voice does make a difference.

Visit the CPSO site to provide feedback and to view the policy entitled

“Professional Obligations and Human Rights”

http://policyconsult.cpso.on.ca/?page_id=5165

Corrosion begins in microscopic proportions

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2948334702_d90e3c938d_oIn light of tomorrow’s Supreme Court decision, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has put out a release noting these specific points:

  • If legalized, assisted suicide will create new paths to abuse of elders, people with disabilities and other socially devalued people. The scourge of elder abuse in our culture continues to grow.

No matter what the decision is, our society needs to be reminded that straying from the principles of protection of all human life leads only to abuse.

Dr. Leo Alexander, a Nuremberg expert in medical war crimes including coerced euthanasia noted how Nazi horrors “started with the acceptance of the attitude, basic in the euthanasia movement, that there is such a thing as a life not worthy to be lived.” He emphasized how the crimes against humanity began with a “seemingly innocent step away from principle.” “Corrosion”, he said, “begins in microscopic proportions.”

Reference: Dr. Leo Alexander, “Medical Science under Dictatorship,” New England Journal of Medicine, 14 July 1949.

 

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The story’s end changes the meaning of every page

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origin_379903189“God has the final say in my life, not cancer.”

These are the words of a woman, a mother for four young children, who has a terminal diagnosis.

This is probably the most profound, most brilliant video I have ever seen on the topic of dying, and dying with dignity – true dignity. She gets it. She gets the meaning of human suffering, the purpose of death, and why God, not her cancer, should have the final say in how she lives and when she dies.

Dignity doesn’t come in a syringe.  It comes from a life well lived in the truth of Love.

Miracles happen every single day. There are countless people walking around who are supposed to have died years ago. And that is a possibility worth sticking around for.

You know what else is worth sticking around for? Every day, I get to spend my time with the people I love.

My life isn’t a story written by cancer. It’s written by love. And whenever it ends, it will end in eternal love. And the story’s end changes the meaning of every page.

My life isn’t mine to take. It’s mine to give.

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Beautiful, brilliant and inspiring.

 

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RU486 defies the “no debate” rule on abortion

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Mike Schouten’s article in the National Post yesterday draws attention to the fact that we will likely be expanding abortion services across Canada, but without any democratic process.

Of course there is the argument that the RU486 is a nightmarish experience for women – an hours long drama of contractions ending with the expulsion of her developing “little one”, a translation of the Latin word “fetus”.

Canada’s anti-abortion activists are urging Health Canada to consider the detrimental effects RU-486 has had on women’s health in countries where it is already in use. According to Johanne Brownrigg of Campaign Life Coalition, “In 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported 2,200 adverse effects, including 14 U.S. deaths, 58 ectopic pregnancies, 256 infections, and 339 incidents requiring transfusions.

But then there is the abysmal double standard of a government who won’t open the debate on abortion, but it will widen the services dramatically, without public consultation.

The Conservative government, along with all the political parties in Ottawa, have denounced any attempt to debate abortion in the House of Commons. This was most recently manifested by the harsh opposition to even discussing something as benign as Motion 408, which merely sought to condemn gender-selective abortions. The news that the approval of RU-486 is imminent, with no debate, smacks of hypocrisy.

For now, the application and any decisions surrounding the infamous abortion drug have been put on hold till the Fall.


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Prenatal genetic testing tells us nothing

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large_5546837013Amy Julia Becker makes a great point about finding out that her child had Down syndrome.

There is some false, yet underlying assumption that pregnant women have to go through genetic testing to know if their child has the disability.

But more importantly, that tiny bit of medical information, in essence tells us nothing.  Not only are the doctors  “ill-equipped to interpret test results and to offer a fair and balanced description of Down syndrome” but the fact itself does nothing to describe who these little people are.  The medical information does not describe these little girls and boys, who despite their disability, will have all kinds of interests, quaint personality traits, and precious moments.

Being a parent of a child with Downs is as joy-filled and full of surprises as any parenting experience would be.

Genetic testing merely puts parents on a search and destroy mission without ever allowing them to know who their child is.

In the hospital, we received a diagnostic portrait of our child. Some of it was spot on: she has tubes in her ears and wears glasses. She needed a heart procedure. She still sees therapists every week. And yet the diagnostic portrait, even though it included some accurate facts, never showed me anything true about our daughter. It never told me that she wouldn’t love dress up clothes or baby dolls but that she would love spelling words and playing Monopoly. It never told me that she would sneak the iPad under the covers—not to play games or watch videos—but to read Matilda. It never told me she would form a friendship with my 88-year old grandmother, and that together they would read and sing and look at pictures. It never told me how much of her life would be worth celebrating.

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Tales of USAID and the sterilization horrors of India

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origin_3874356034I had written previously about the deaths of several women in Indian sterilization camps. This article explains to a greater extent the horrors that take place in these filthy centers, the lies that women are told and the tragic deaths and bodily harm that befalls them. Totally outrageous in all of this human misery is the fact that USAID underwrites most of these clinics!

Human rights activists have repeatedly documented that camps like those in Chhattisgarh are pervasive and routine throughout India. They’ve detailed how women are persuaded with cash incentives – or the chance to win a refrigerator or a car – and how they are coerced – into sterilizations. And they have described cases in harrowing detail: young childless women consenting to procedures by thumbprint unaware that it would leave them infertile; dozens of women being sterilized on school desks by doctors operating by flashlight; women maimed in the quest to meet government sterilization quotas.[5] Just last year, there was outrage after the national television station aired footage of women lined up and bleeding on the ground at a camp where 103 lower caste women had been sterilized in under five hours in another state.[6]

Yet none of the Supreme Court of India rulings, international policies and declarations, ever seem to make a difference in India which has been a playground for population controllers for decades.

Investigative journalist, Celeste McGovern, does a superb job in ousting the culprits of this human rights tragedy.  Despite distancing itself, USAID is found to have its tentacles all over the population control and government quotas for sterilizations in India.

Documents reveal that USAID has for more than two decades been at the helm of India’s family planning programs, not just funding the massive directive that includes tens of thousands of camps, but overseeing and orchestrating the entire program, even encouraging cash incentives for sterilization and IUD insertion.

McGovern goes on to describe how USAID designed a program called the Innovations in Family Planning Services (IFPS) launched in 1992 with $325 million from USAID to be matched by $400 million from India’s government. Buoyed up by the success of the IFPS, USAID and the IFPS created a special “autonomous parastatal” agency called the State Innovations in Family Planning Services Agency (SIFPSA) to “provide flexibility and avoid bureaucratic delays.” According to McGovern, they made an unaccountable agency to operate away from public view and outside the democratic process

Kerry McBroom, an American human rights lawyer with HRLN in Delhi told McGovern that “85% of all family planning money goes to female sterilization”.  She continues:

Donor organizations need to be accountable for rights violations perpetrated with their funding. Activists have made reports of unsafe and unethical sterilization for decades – it’s impossible that donors are totally oblivious to the violations.

This brilliantly researched article is a must read if you intend to know what is happening abroad with foreign aid money.

And stay tuned for Part 2.

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The Grinch who tried to steal Christmas

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This came out yesterday, just days before the celebration of Christmas.

Health Canada has set an internal deadline of mid-January to finally make a decision on the abortion pill, a drug that is already available in 60 countries but has been stuck in Canada’s drug-approval pipeline for more than three years.

Sadly this article does NOT accurately describe the routine consequences of the RU486 abortion pill, which for most women is a harrowing ordeal.

You can read an article that I wrote on the issue that explains the serious problems with this drug.  The number of deaths world-wide stand at about 22, but the adverse effects of RU486 are much more prevalent and often under-reported.

I will be writing on this issue again in the coming year.

For now, we will not allow any Grinches to steal the joy of Christmas, so a very Merry Christmas to you all!

 

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No (wo)man is an island

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As the slogan “my body, my choice” gets older and older, it is being refuted even more by science. But not the science you’re thinking of.

Robert Martone, a research scientist with extensive experience in drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases, has discovered very compelling evidence that shows the connection between mother and child to be much deeper than we may have thought.

Cells from her developing baby pass through the placenta during gestation and take up lodging throughout the mother’s body, particularly in the brain.  They have all kinds of medical implications, from helping with tissue repair, to cancer prevention and auto-immune responses.

It is remarkable that it is so common for cells from one individual to integrate into the tissues of another distinct person. We are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as singular autonomous individuals, and these foreign cells seem to belie that notion, and suggest that most people carry remnants of other individuals. As remarkable as this may be, stunning results from a new study show that cells from other individuals are also found in the brain.

Dr. Martone found that in women with many children, 60% of their brains were inhabited by male and female cells from their children.

These cells seem to be inter-generational, appearing in the pregnant mother from her own previous gestation in her mother’s womb, and from her past or present pregnancies.  They also appeared in siblings and twins.

Microchimerism most commonly results from the exchange of cells across the placenta during pregnancy, however there is also evidence that cells may be transferred from mother to infant through nursing. In addition to exchange between mother and fetus, there may be exchange of cells between twins in utero, and there is also the possibility that cells from an older sibling residing in the mother may find their way back across the placenta to a younger sibling during the latter’s gestation. Women may have microchimeric cells both from their mother as well as from their own pregnancies, and there is even evidence for competition between cells from grandmother and infant within the mother.

It certainly gives new meaning to the notion that no man is an island, and that we are all, somehow, interconnected.

 

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Molly raises unborn victim of crime issue

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Nearly 7 years ago Ken Epp’s Bill C-484 (Unborn Victims of Crime Act), was raised to address a certain injustice in Canada that gets routinely overlooked.  The Bill passed at Second Reading in the House of Commons, but an election was called later that year, and so the bill never made it any further. Since that time, no other MP has brought it back since.

Now this case is raising the issue again.  Cassandra Kaake was 7 months pregnant when she was bludgeoned to death in a burned out Windsor, Ontario residence last week Thursday.  The person responsible for this tragedy will be tried for Cassandra’s death, but not for that of her little girl, whom she had named Molly.

According to Dr. Greg Hasen, academic director of obstetrics for the Schulich School of Medicine, a seven-month-old fetus is “fully developed.”

Eyes are opening and closing, they’re drinking fluid, moving around,” Hasen said in an article in the Windsor Star (Dec. 16). “Their lungs aren’t fully mature, but the growth that occurs in the last two months of pregnancy is more in weight gain.

It’s to Canada’s shame that we have no such law, while in the U.S., it’s possible to treat an unborn baby as a crime victim in the courts of 38 states.

 

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