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In school, it’s called sex ed

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But in a church, it’s called a marketing ploy. Figures.

Ed Young wants married couples to have sex all week long. Once a day. Beginning this Sunday. The call to action will headline Mr. Young’s Sunday sermon at Grapevine-based Fellowship Church…

Jim Dale of Coppell said he figures the pastor is trying to create more buzz for his five-church mega-ministry. “Draw ’em in, no matter what or how,” wrote the Coppell resident in a posting on dallasnews.com. “Sex? You betcha. That’ll pack the pews (or theater seats).”

Alas, church is supposed to be boring and stale. One is only supposed to hear drawn out liturgy about who begat whom. And, for Pete’s sake, if the subject of sex is to come up, it should only be to tell people to repent from having it.

If — aside from what I instill in her — my kid learns about sex from school, television, the internet, highway billboards, fashion magazines, music videos, movies, and that extreme PDA couple on the bus every afternoon, I sure hope the church won’t be silent on the topic.

Deep rooted mentalities

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Many don’t believe that over 60% of abortions performed in Canada or the US involve coercion to some degree (usually by a mate or parent). That’s a conservative figure. While some claim having a ‘choice’ is an essential part of a civilized country, it is evident that the decision is not purely between a woman and her doctor. As part of daily life in this country, girl gets pregnant, and boy does everything he can to manipulate her to have an abortion. The only ones ignoring this reality are those who place the right to ‘choose’ above the welfare of women.

Why would any Canadian woman tolerate being coerced into such a decision? Aren’t we all strong, independent, assertive, and outspoken? I catch wind of atrocities like this, befalling women in countries like Afghanistan, and the problem is blamed on cultural mentality.

The central reason is despairingly simple: Women’s lives are not valued, and even women themselves perceive their suffering as being unavoidable.

Not only in Afghanistan do oppressive mentalities plague women. In this country, a girl or woman discovering she is unexpectedly pregnant knows instantly that actually choosing whether to carry through or terminate the pregnancy is unavoidable. If she herself wants to keep her baby, she is fully aware that someone else will, at the very least, encourage her to look at her ‘options.’ In carrying through the pregnancy, the baby then becomes her ‘choice.’

I’m doubtful that this is what the pro-choice movement set out to achieve. Unlikely that, from its inception, part of its mission statement was: “…so that every woman getting unexpectedly pregnant would feel some degree of pressure to have an abortion.”

So, just like in Afghanistan:

Questioning culture is, of course, a politically incorrect approach. But we must refuse to bow before the altar of tolerance when it comes to what is truly unacceptable, wherever it occurs.

The gloves come off

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The kid-glove jargon, I mean. Usually the pro-choice side is very careful to focus on the whole “my body – my choice” point of view. Abortion is meant to terminate pregnancy, they say. They argue that a woman should not be forced to remain pregnant.

But Obama cuts through that rhetoric, shall we say. And in so doing, he makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. (In a bad way, for all those left wondering.)

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZF-_EZ8mb0]

One more thought: If a baby is not the correct “punishment” for a mistake, is an abortion?

Empty suitcase found shady…

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…er, I mean, “shady suitcase found empty.”

A suitcase that prompted a bomb scare Monday afternoon outside a downtown Ottawa abortion clinic turned out to be empty…

the large black suitcase leaning against a post…was empty and had been left out for disposal.

You know how it is. The Canadian press is riddled with stories of abortion-clinics exploding. No wonder someone thought is was a bomb.

But, wait a sec, the one and only bombing ever to occur in Canada in relation to an abortion clinic was in 1992. Hmm, that’s (…1…2 …carry the 4…) over 16 years ago!

I wonder if the reaction from emergency services would have been the same had the suitcase been found outside a Denny’s.

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Brigitte adds: As a certified paranoid (perhaps in part due to having spent time in France during a Vigipirate episode), I admit I always look twice at such objects. You never know, and failure to notice a dangerous package might easily be catastrophic. But  there’s a difference between looking twice and freaking out unduly, given that abandoned empty suitcases are mostly an affront to our aesthetic sensibilities. Oh, and I love the last line in the story Tanya links to:

Anti-abortion protesters often march and wave placards outside the clinic.

But of course. Placard wavers! Not far from an abandoned suitcase! Who wouldn’t call the police?

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Andrea adds: What is more interesting than the short news story are the comments, including this one from one “Bunty W”:

So yeah, I’m glad I killed that fetus! Morgenthaler deserves sainthood as far as I’m concerned.

and this on the “clump of cells” argument:

You (who have clearly never read a science textbook) will be amazed to know that YOU are just a cluster of cells. Trees are clusters of cells, fish are clusters of cells… everything in the living world, AMAZING!

The comments go on for a long while. This is interesting, because the issue is resolved and has been closed for a very long time…this I know, for pro-choice advocates tell me so… (Sing with me.)

Ethics for embryos

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If you have a slice of time today, you may want to watch the live feed of the New York State Stem Cell Science Ethics Committee Meeting.

Here’s a side of the issue I never thought about before: If a woman’s eggs are harvested for the purposes of IVF, a research company may eventually approach her in the future, if the eggs go unused, and ask to fertilize her eggs with sperm from an anonymous donor. *gag* Is anyone else’s skin crawling?

At 2pm, of special interest, they will be discussing ‘Respect for the Embryo.’

From what I’ve gathered so far, everyone in the room is for embryonic stem cell research. Let’s see how balanced this discussion manages to be.

Car unveiled. Women? Not so much.

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A car designed specifically for women, with electronic parking aids and a jack making it easier to change a wheel, has been unveiled by Iran’s state-backed manufacturer.

Well, I say, you can take our cheerfully coloured cars with decorated dashboards, but you can never take our FREEDOM! (Thank you, William Wallace.)

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Brigitte is somewhat offended: Whadayamean, parking aids? I don’t need no stinking parking aids! Plus I’ll have you know that here in the Decadent West, women are not only free to drive better than men, they’re also allowed to drive manly cars. Or homosexual ones – like my brand-new 2009 Forester, which I am told is a favourite among lesbians (mine is sage, a soothing and slightly feminine colour which gives my aggressive parallel parking style a bit of a softer edge). Lesbians sure know how to pick great cars. Take that, Iran Khodro! (One is tempted to add: Give me Lesbaru or give me death!)

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Tanya hates to admit it: but, Brigitte, if ever I was parking next to you, you’d wish a parking aid on me. And it’s not because I’m a woman. It’s because my 2004 Ion will likely ding your 2009 Forester.

Victim of abortion speaks up

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We, as women, won the right to vote when women suffragettes mobilized. All black people won the fight against segregation when black activists raised their voices. Unborn children, victims of abortion, may ultimately receive recognition thanks to women like this:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEQR1-1OXK4]

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Andrea adds: Looking out over the audience, you’re seeing the faces of girls who have already aborted their babies, I think. Not a good moment.

Palin disinvited

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Organizers disinvite Sarah Palin, who was originally scheduled to speak along with Hillary Clinton at a rally. The New York Sun published the full speech.

In the words of one Jewish journalist, the rally was “against Iran’s plan to destroy Israel.”

It was a remarkable speech, prepared by a remarkable woman. But it was not heard…because the Democratic Party and Jewish Democrats believe that their partisan interest in demonizing Palin and making Americans…hate and fear her to secure their votes for Obama…is more important than allowing Palin to elevate the necessity of preventing a second Holocaust to the top of the US’s national security agenda…

The moment that Clinton found out that she was to share a stage with Palin, she cancelled her appearance. By cancelling, she signaled to Jewish Democrats – and Democrats in general – that opposing Palin and the Republican Party is more important than opposing Ahmadinejad and the genocidal regime he represents.

THE JEWISH Democrats on the rally’s organizing committee got the message loud and clear. Two of the rally’s co-sponsors…disinvited Palin…

[Liberals]…uphold themselves as champions of human rights… They care about the environment. They care about securing American women’s unfettered access to abortions. They care about keeping Christianity and God out of the public sphere. They care about offering peace to those who are actively seeking their destruction so that they can applaud themselves for their open-mindedness and tell themselves how much better they are than savage conservatives.

Those horrible, war-mongering, Bambi killing, unborn baby defending, God-believing conservatives, who think that there are things worth going to war to protect, must be defeated at all costs. They must intimidate, attack, demonize and defeat those conservatives who think that the free women of the West should be standing shoulder to shoulder not with Planned Parenthood, but with the women of the Islamic world who are enslaved by a misogynist Shari’a legal code that treats them as slaves and deprives them of control not simply of their wombs, but of their faces, their hair, their arms, their legs, their minds and their hearts.

Two Quebec staples

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Steamés and $7 a day daycare.

I was sitting on a terrace yesterday enjoying lunch of hot-dogs and fries with my daughter (because, apparently, Listeria doesn’t scare me one bit). Along came a 50-something woman, asking if she could share our table. “But of course!”

The conversation quickly turned to childcare. (For some reason, she believed a woman having a weekday lunch with her 3-year-old could be some sort of a resource.) This woman’s daughter is looking for a daycare for six-month-old twins, but keeps encountering waiting lists up to 4 years long.

I suggest: “Why not enroll them in private daycare and pay $30 a day only to get it all back on her income tax?”

She comes back with: “Oh, well she and her spouse make too much annually to qualify to get any money back.”

Yes, of course. When it comes to daycare, it’s deplorable to think that a family making 6 figures should have to pay more than $1,820 a year per child. Thank goodness even those families receive $100 a month per child under 6 in childcare benefits. How ever would they make ends meet?

And there you have it. Another example of how enviable our childcare system is in Quebec.

Nothing better to nag on

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Triplets were born this past weekend to a 59-year-old woman who conceived through IVF (In Vitro Fertilization). Some say medical milestone. Others raise concerns.

…a child born to an older woman can become confused about the role of grandmother and mother.

Great; yet another loopy theory doctors will borrow when consulting 40+ women on abortion.

I’ll spare everyone the long version of Sarah and Abraham who had a child so old it made them LOL, but raise your hand if you were reared by your grandmother and turned out just fine. And am I the only one who can think of about a hundred worse things a child could grow up being confused about these days?

(For the record, I’m not advocating for no-holds barred IVF.)

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