I think this issue deserves a little attention, especially as it appears to be hiding just around the corner.

Living with Dignity is a group in Quebec that is trying to expose the pushing through of Bill 52 which, if adopted, will legalize euthanasia in the province in contravention of the Criminal Code.

The bill on end-of-life was reintroduced in the National Assembly on May 22 around 11:15 am. There was no debate. It happened in less than a minute. Dr. Barrette and Mrs. Hivon are to be named co-sponsors. Around 1:15 pm, representatives of all four parties stated during a press conference that there would be a free vote for all MNAs. Everything tells us that they will be going to vote before the end of next week.

Living with Dignity and the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia, who represent over 625 physicians and 17,000 citizens in the Province of Quebec announced that should Bill 52 be passed,

we would institute a legal challenge attacking the constitutionality of those provisions in the statute that, under the pretense of “medical aid in dying”, are aimed at decriminalizing euthanasia.  Indeed, these provisions violate our Charters of rights and encroach on federal jurisdiction over criminal law, as euthanasia constitutes a culpable homicide under our Criminal Code.

Living with Dignity maintains that the rushing through of this Bill is a parody of democracy that invites legal challenges.

For some really great background information on this whole issue, you can go to the LifeCanada web-site here.

Quebec citizens are urged to contact their MNAs.

Are people really so taken up with the jargon that they don’t realize the impact these policies will have on real live people?

Apparently according to this article:

The abortion debate is slated to return to the House of Commons, with one New Democrat seeking to reaffirm the chamber’s commitment to a woman’s right to choose.

A motion put forward by NDP MP Niki Ashton seeks to have members of Parliament vote on whether access to abortion is a “fundamental question of equality and human rights, both in Canada and around the world.”

The Motion reads thus:

M-510 — May 8, 2014 — Ms. Ashton (Churchill) — That, in the opinion of the House: (a) a women’s right to choose abortion is a fundamental question of equality and human rights, both in Canada and around the world; (b) the key priorities of the government during the upcoming international summit on child and maternal health on May 28-30, 2014 should include empowering women globally, promoting gender equality and supporting reproductive health care including the full range of family planning, sexual and reproductive health options; and (c) the government should lift its policy of refusing to fund international programs that support a full range of family planning and reproductive health care options including abortion.

There is just so much wrong with that, I don’t know where to begin.

I thought that I would post these insightful observations from Isabelle O’Connor in Quebec:

1. This motion is null and void as it is a direct infringement on the right to freedom of conscience of every citizen, MPs included;
2. It is not access to abortion that will improve maternal health; it is access to maternal health services;
3. Deaths caused by legally-induced abortion are never attributed, statistically, to the cause of death labelled « Legally induced-abortion ». Coroners have explained to us that deaths due to legally-induced abortion  are coded under « Pregnancy», or under « External cause – medical misadventure ». So, mortality caused by legally-induced abortion is actually attributed to pregnancy, which allows abortion promoters to propagate the urban legend that « childbirth is much more dangerous than abortion » (our findings have been published worldwide, in numerous languages);
4. Obviously, abortion does nothing positive for child health. To be tortured and exterminated has no pleasant or positive side whatsoever for a child;
5. Abortion is an act of violence, against both women and children. As long as society will perform acts of violence, it cannot expect to reap peace and health as a result, as a fundamental law of nature is that one reaps what one sows;
6. Population is the most important resource f a country. If we want to stimulate prosperity, we must do everything possible to allow a population to live and flourish.

I would like to know why my tax dollars are going towards giving a platform to the two topless girls who tried to interrupt and shout down the Archbishop of Quebec yesterday at the March for Life in Ottawa?  They should be facing fines or jail time for indecent exposure, attempted assault, mischief, disturbing the peace, anything – just not sitting, (fully dressed, I note) in a CBC studio during prime time, chatting with Evan Solomon.

They are extremists of the notorious group FEMEN whose atrocious behaviour borders on insanity. At the very least it is terribly embarrassing and to be pitied. They have no respect for public discourse, the democratic process, freedom of religion or conscience and yet they are given a voice by our national tax funded media.

I’m a huge fan of Jackson Doughart.  His position on the issue of abortion is well reasoned, and he writes about it with great clarity, civility and genuine intelligence.  He also writes as a “non-believer”, that is, he has no religious affiliations and cannot be disregarded as a bible-thumping lunatic, or a “religious fanatic” (refer to my last post).

His National Post article on the New Brunswick situation is just one example of his genius.  He exposes the errors of fact made by those who “believe that there are no relevant considerations in the abortion debate beyond the invocations of a woman’s equality and ‘choice’.”  In the totally over-blown debate about funding in New Brunswick, he has this to say:

The legal reality, however, could hardly be more favourable to provinces that wish to limit their own culpability for Canada’s mass-abortion culture, which produces over 90,000 terminations of pregnancy annually. The Canada Health Act, which conditions the federal funding of provincial health-care programs upon the performance of medically-necessary procedures, leaves the interpretation of medical necessity to the provinces themselves. So while Ontario and Quebec are free to ascribe necessary status to abortion-on-demand, P.E.I. and New Brunswick are likewise free to place reasonable checks on elective abortions which are, in their view, not medically needed.

And he notes the behaviour of those who advance the cause of unfettered and fully funded abortion with this:

Apart from the profanity of their cause, the one trait that struck me of their movement was its lack of democratic respect. The members of “PRRO” that I dealt with personally in attempting to organize a public debate on the issue—in which they ultimately refused to participate—told me directly that they neither cared nor worried that people like me disagreed genuinely with them. Publicly funded abortion-on-demand, in all places, was their right that no one was going to take away from them, notwithstanding any convincing argument. They were wrong on the facts, then as now, but one worries that this has not deterred them or their many followers from advancing a thoroughly misguided cause.

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Andrea adds: This really bothers me. Always. “They maintain that abortion is a harmless medical procedure, with restrictions being the sole threat to women’s safety, despite the research indicating that induced abortions, and especially multiple induced abortions on a single woman, pose risks to the health of her future children.” He’s right. How this gets passed of as friendly to women does beat me. But I figure we are currently in the stage of the debate where tobacco companies claim that smoking cigarettes has absolutely nothing to do with cancer. How we all snicker at that silliness today…………… you get what I’m saying.

Children react to the news of their mother having a baby. Priceless.

I’m not sure I want to wade too deeply into this debate, but it is rather galling to read an article about the terrorist militant group, Boko Haram (meaning “Western education is a sin”) who recently kidnapped 270 Nigerian girls and see them referred to as “conservative fanatics”.   I refer to the horrifying incident that is slowly gaining global recognition, and that is reported in this article here:

“No girl should be a hero for getting an education. But for many girls around the world, walking through the schoolhouse doors isn’t a right or an assumption: it’s a victory over conservative fanatics – some of whom carry guns,” writes Jill Filipovic.

Her article is entitled “The kidnapped Nigerian girls show that religious conservatives hate education“.  It’s just the kind of thing a Western, modern, politically correct feminist schooled in our left-leaning universities would say.  She goes on to further insinuate world religions with this quote:

On the surface, these kidnappings follow a theme we’ve seen across the globe: religious extremists don’t want to see girls getting the kind of education that will allow them to enter the workforce, because they correctly understand that education sets girls on a path to economic independence and self-reliance.

CNN reports this:

On April 16, armed men herded the girls out of bed and forced them into trucks in the town of Chibok. The convoy of trucks then disappeared into the dense forest bordering Cameroon.

The fate of these girls is horrific and the perpetrators of this violence are hardly “religious conservatives.” To equate the two is an outrage.

Risking the ire of these Western feminists, I say thank God for Western civilization and Western democracies.  Without the civilizing effect of Christendom, whose tenets teach respect and reverence for all human life, and whose advocates have been the founders of our political democracies, our universities (before they were taken over by leftists) and our health care institutions (before the advent of abortion on demand)  I dare say that the world would have experienced a lot more of the likes of Boko Haram.

I thought this was an excellent article and well worth the read (along with Andrea’s most excellent piece).  Lisa Ravary makes crucial points about the rights of children NOT to be biological orphans, whether the couple creating them through human reproductive technologies is heterosexual or homosexual.

People don’t seem to care anymore that the building blocks of life can be bought on specs from glitzy American websites, complete with “Your cart is empty” and “Proceed to checkout” sections, that the embryo created in a lab will be carried to term by a woman without any genetic ties to it (she will be a “special auntie” said Legendre) and delivered by caesarian.

Children are not a right – and the children that we do have, have a right to know where they came from.  I would add further, that children have a right to their biological parents, meaning their father and their mother.

An Italian blogger, journalist, and mother of four, is making waves in Europe and it seems to be hitting the shores of North America. She has recently published a book about marriage, but it is certainly no ordinary book, at least not by today’s standards.  It has sold over 100,000 copies, but the subject concerns female submission in marriage, and how it makes marriages happy and healthy.  She doesn’t mean submission in the bad sense of the word.  She means be the peacemaker, be the column that stands beneath the structure and holds it up, or the neck that turns the head – something like that.

But whatever her intent, Constanza Miriano’s book Get Married and Submit (Cásate y Sé Sumisa in Italian) has ignited protests, book burnings and a call from a Spanish member of parliament for the book to be banned.  I only wish the likes of Fifty Shades of Grey had incited the same reaction from feminists!

Sarah Rainey in this Telegraph article is indignant and disparages the book wholeheartedly, but she does refer to an expert who has this to say:

Sam Owen, a relationships coach and psychologist, says the resurgence of traditional notions about marriage is due to the breakdown of society. “There are now so many single parents and broken homes, and married couples that are still together tend to be parents and grandparents. If people are hankering for an old-fashioned marriage, it’s often because so much of it worked so well.”

See this BBC interview with Constanza of Get Married and Submit here.

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PEI comes up with a very academic conference entitled: Abortion, The Unfinished Revolution.

The line up is supposed to be impressive, but it sounds like a lot of political-speak, euphemisms and the worst kind of feminist ideology.  You can see the whole line up of “papers” to be presented, with summaries here.

This press release was sent to me via a friend in Kenya who has dedicated his life to working amongst the poorest of the poor in Kisumu, Kenya.  It is a press statement from the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Kenya asking some very pointed questions about the current tetanus vaccination campaign that has been going on in that country.

Here are a few of their questions, just to wet your whistle:

-Is there a tetanus crisis on women of child bearing age in Kenya? If this
is so, why has it not been declared?
-Why does the campaign target women of 14 – 49 years?
– Why has the campaign left out young girls, boys and men even if they are
all prone to tetanus?
– In the midst of so many life threatening diseases in Kenya, why has
tetanus been prioritized?

Then they go on to say what they are really thinking:

Information in the public domain indicates that Tetanus Toxoid vaccine (TT)
laced with Beta human chorionic gonadotropin (b-HCG) sub unit has been
used in Philippines, Nicaragua and Mexico to vaccinate women against future
pregnancy. Beta HCG sub unit is a hormone necessary for pregnancy.
When injected as a vaccine to a non-pregnant woman, this Beta HCG sub unit
combined with tetanus toxoid develops antibodies against tetanus and HCG so
that if a woman’s egg becomes fertilized, her own natural HCG will be
destroyed rendering her permanently infertile.

In other words, Western vaccination programs are moving into developing nations and permanently sterilizing whole segments of the population without their knowledge.

So much for “choice”.  It looks like higher powers have already made that choice, and women in the developing world are stuck with it.  Instead of ending world hunger through sustainable projects, the richer nations are seeking to unload the burden of poverty by killing off the poor.  Welcome to the new colonialism.

You can read the entire statement here: Press Statement_CHCK_on_Ongoing Tetanus Vaccination