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Back to kidneys for a moment

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Rod Bruinooge started it:

The bottom line is that people like myself are not going to stop until, at the very least, unborn children have more value than a Canadian kidney,” he said.

Dr. Sneddon went on about kidneys, too, as he argued the pro-choice side of things.  (see the comments section)

[He] relied heavily on an analogy of a mother whose son needs her kidney to survive, and that she has the right to deny her son her kidney as her rights to her body part trumps his.

Now back to embryonic stem cell research.  Contrary to what Bill Clinton thinks, the embryo is a fertilized egg, and the the earliest form of human life.  How do their rights get trumped in the name of scientific research?  Even if there had been any sort of success story regarding embryonic stem cell research — and I’ve been looking, believe me — how would one person’s, say, cerebral palsy treatment justify destroying an embryo to harvest its stem cells?

Clinton really kills me when he suggests that using those embryos which would otherwise stay on ice indefinitely for medical research is a pro-life position.  Running scientific experiments on human beings is what Hitler did!  Should we then say that it was more noble that these humans — the Jews — be used for the advancement of science rather than be sent straight to the gas chamber? That is, in fact, how the doctors in Auschwitz justified experimenting on human beings.

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It was really a way of exploiting a human resource which they deemed to be already lost.  They thought. “Well, they’ll be dead tomorrow, so let’s use them today.” (2:32 into the film)

Oh! – bama

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This from the Globe and Mail:

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday cleared the way for a significant increase in federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research and promised no scientific data will be “distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda.”

Pinkie swear.

McGill U: going against the flow

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Proud as punch about this:

McGill University’s student government has bucked an unfortunate national trend by granting full club status to a student anti-abortion group.

The Student Society’s decision to grant recognition to Choose Life is not so much a victory for pro-life forces as it is a victory for free speech and freedom of association, values that seem to be under attack, and poorly defended, on many Canadian campuses – where they should be safest.

I think a lot of this had to do with McGill not wanting to come off as narrow as York or Calgary Universities. In case you haven’t noticed, Quebec likes to go against the flow. Sometimes to a fault. Not this time, thank goodness.

Is this the UN’s definition of ‘freedom of speech’?

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Came across this article on Slate.com. I’m really not one to slam the Islamic faith, and certainly not using  blanket statements. I agree with the idea that generalizations are equivalent to blatant ignorance. And one thing I hate to be is ignorant.

It goes beyond not wanting to come off as a redneck. I actually know many Muslims. I am friends with Muslims. I have Muslim family members. (So please spare me any comments about how I should be more supportive of initiatives towards religious tolerance.)

The Slate.com article links to the UN General Assembly Resolution in question (A-RES/62/154). Little known fact about me: I love reading UN resolutions. This one was particularly entertaining. Especially page 3.

… everyone has the right to hold opinions without interference and the right to freedom of expression, and that the exercise of these rights carries with it special duties and responsibilities and may therefore be subject to limitations as are provided for by law and are necessary for respect of the rights or reputations of others, protection of national security or of public order, public health or morals and respect for religions and beliefs…

Are you really allowed to use the terms ‘without interference’ and ‘legal limitations’ in the same sentence? Well, they are the United Nations. I guess they can say whatever they want. You and I, on the other hand…

Don’t drink the water

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We’ve visited this issue before. Seems new concerns about birth control pill hormones leaking into the water supply have again arisen:

Experts believe the hormone could be getting into drinking water and affecting men’s sperm counts. They say sewage treatment does not remove the chemical entirely from drinking supplies, although the water industry insists there is no evidence of a risk to health….

One study by the Medical Research Council found that Scottish men born since 1970 are 25 per cent less fertile than those born 20 years earlier – and that fertility is continuing to drop by two per cent a year.

Of course, other chemicals may be responsible, for we are increasingly discovering that we are surrounded by ‘gender-bending’ substances.

Many pesticides and plastics, for example, contain chemicals that disrupt the hormone system. (emphasis mine)

And it seems going ahead with broad water filtration programs is out of the question since the process of filtering these chemicals out of the water contributes to global warming. (Good grief!) So buy your water today… in glass bottles, I guess.

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Andrea adds: All these environmental crises, economic crises, everything is a CRISIS! The average guy is going to reach for something in a bottle and it won’t be water. I think I need a drink too.

Right-to-die?

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Or right-to-capitalize-on-death?

Kusch [Dr. Death] has developed, and advertises, a “suicide machine” that he will hook up to clients for a charge of up to $13,000. One of his “clients” took her life simply because she felt she was too anti-social to live in a nursing home.

Perhaps Canada would never face someone pining for his right to make a profit off of assisted suicide like this Dr. Death character.  As the above article goes on to say, “the U.S. is more likely than Europe to be a trendsetter for Canada.”  Hmmm…

Oregon has a law that allows terminally ill people to end their lives “through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications, expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose.”

And we know that, where prescription medication is concerned, there is no profit to be made.

Suppressing reproductive freedoms?

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One thing is certain; the birth of these infamous octuplets sure has spurred on some debate. Today’s Yahoo! poll asks, “Do fertility clinics need stricter guidelines?” The majority seem to think so (89% in fact).

Had the mother of these eight babies had a ‘reduction,’ this story would never have made the news. Having said that, I think that reproductive freedom is intended to convey the message that a woman may have as many or as few children as she wishes. It seems to me, however, that she may have ‘as few’, but her right to have many is in question.

Drowned out at Saint Mary’s University

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Jojo Ruba from CCBR was shouted down during a presentation he was giving at Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia.

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According to the above YouTube poster:

The small group of Abortion supporters blocked the projector, swore at the presenter, and drowned out attempts at communication for over an hour, until a St. Mary’s Conflict Resolution Official inexplicably chose to order the students (still sitting quietly in their seats) to leave rather than have the unruly mob arrested by police.

Jojo Ruba had this to say:

What looks worse, shutting down a university-approved presentation or arresting people who are unlawfully disrupting that presentation?” asked Ruba, who said he was appalled the university gave in to mob rule. “St. Mary’s should be ashamed of itself for showing students they need only scream when they don’t like something, rather than dialogue respectfully.”

I don’t know where these university students got the idea that it was OK to squelch free speech.  Alright, so maybe I do.

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Andrea adds: Wowee, they sure do have those slogans down. No thinking allowed. You know, I haven’t really missed not seeing/hearing/knowing the news these past ten days all that much. This is just sad.

U of C pro-lifers to face court conviction

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And that’s no Bologna, according to this columnist (I couldn’t resisit the pun).

It’s really too bad the idea of the university has apparently run its course, a ship smashed to splinters on the rocks of political correctness.

Universities have had a good long run.

The very first was organized in Bologna and the first reference to it is an imperial decree from Frederick Barbarossa in 1158…

As they developed, universities taught the use of logical, dispassionate observation to investigate nature — thanks, Aristotle! — which conflicted, of course, with the position of the dominant social and political force of the time, the Roman Catholic Church.

Over the years, schools became a place where the struggle between divergent opinions was not only tolerated but encouraged, in the hope of determining what was true and what was real, because it was conflicts between points of view that helped define truth.

Of course, the concept of truth itself is long dead in universitiy administration, so what were we expecting?

Let’s confuse the men

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This is what happens when feminism goes too far. Men become outraged by one of my favorite cereal commercials. (I do prefer this commercial with the British accents, but I digress…)

I believe in the strength of women. I believe we are capable of more than we know. But when we start claiming we can do anything men can do, men start questioning why we don’t have snow globes thrown at our crotch more often.

Now, “if women are the weaker sex, she shouldn’t be secretary of state. She shouldn’t run for president. She should stay home to bake cookies.”  Okay, so O’Reily’s guest is not the most articulate man, and there’s a whole lot that’s offensive to women infused into this one statement. But he’s a great exmple of the monster over-the-top feminism has helped create.

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