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Legal action against the Ontario government

April 22, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 7 Comments

The Association for Reform Political Action and Run with Life blogger Pat Maloney are taking legal action against the Ontario government by challenging the constitutionality of not allowing abortion to be subject to access to information requests.

Pat Maloney used to get aggregate abortion statistics by filing these access to information requests, but since the Broader Public Sector Accountability Act was passed in Ontario, she can’t.

She is not asking for private information, only the aggregate stats. The denial of this information is the opposite of Public Sector Accountability. Here are the notes from press conference held this afternoon at Queen’s Park in Toronto.

That’s because all abortion information is now excluded from FIPPA: Abortion numbers. Abortion complications. Abortion costs to the taxpayer. The demographic statistics of women who have abortions: their age, how many abortions they have, and the gestational age of the fetus at termination. Anything and everything about abortion is now being hidden by the Ontario government.

This is not about being pro-life. We need good statistics to see trends in our society and to know whether education programs are working.

Challenging the Ontario government for withholding abortion statistics.

Challenging the Ontario government for withholding abortion statistics.

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On plan A

April 10, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

Plan B.

It’s the emergency contraception that works in part by not allowing an already fertilized embryo to implant, so an exceptionally early abortion.

It also works by wreaking havoc on a woman’s body, lots of nausea, throwing up, waiting at home by yourself.

I was waiting in the drugstore yesterday and I noticed it sitting there on the shelf. Plan B.

It’s not called Plan A.

Getting pregnant at the wrong time is never your first choice.

When you are asked about your plans for the future they are never “I’m going to complete my degree, but only with difficulty and perhaps by taking longer because I’m going to get pregnant—round about second year?—with someone I don’t love or know that I want to be with for a weekend, let alone a lifetime.”

Immediately you are launched into “Plan B” territory.

I would say Plan B—the drug, and Plan B the idea is a bad plan, and what you want is a new Plan A.

Your Plan A might not be executed in exactly the fashion you thought, but women should not need to have surgery or take pills to be equal and successful in this world.

Doing so means acquiescing to the fact that this is an anti-family world, and that life is only ever played out on sterile terms.

We don’t make accommodations for people who need special circumstances very easily. Why is that?

Perhaps because we rarely ask?

If we are to build a world where women truly thrive, it can’t include abortion, because this cuts life off, and demands that women function as men.

On this idea of creating new plan As—it happens All. The. Time and is fairly non-controversial in practice.

My Plan A: I thought I would be an international diplomat or journalist. I thought I would live and work in Europe, and I spent near two years there trying to build this future. I was actually fairly fluent in German for a time.

My life today? I am not an international diplomat or journalist. My writing portfolio is focused almost exclusively on domestic, social affairs. I live in Ottawa.

The other Plan A from a slightly earlier stage in my life was to be a kinesiologist. I thought I might do water therapy/rehabilitation for people who have suffered accidents, because I lived and breathed the pool in high school. I love swimming still.

I do swim, three times a week. And that’s as close as I am to that Plan A.

Plan As almost never look exactly as we thought, and a good friend, a good feminist, any strong woman in your life will help a younger woman understand that. As we live through the ups and downs of life there is a long term trajectory toward achieving not just your own practical goals, but your vocation—without claiming a false right to kill your unborn child along the way.

I am not where I thought I would be or perhaps even should be today, but I am happy.

We should never acquiesce to a contrived Plan B when we can live a Plan A adventure.

(I’m so far gone on planning these days that there are no letters left in the alphabet.)

I tried to say a version of this as my concluding remarks at the “Stump the Pro-lifer” event yesterday, but I don’t think I really captured what I meant, so trying to post those thoughts here today.

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Looking out over the coffee fields of El Salvador. Part of me wishes I could be a coffee farmer. But I realize this plan is more than slightly unrealistic.

 

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Stump the pro-lifer is tonight at University of Ottawa

April 9, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Come one, come all, 7 pm. Tonight is the time to stump the pro-lifer. We’ll see what questions we get. Should be fun.

 

 

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On age and ideas

March 31, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Bad ideas are bad, good ideas are good whether young or old. Peter Stockland comments:

Bad ideas in young heads are as bad as bad ideas in old heads. The issue is not the age at which those ideas enter our heads, but whether they become ideologically fixed and impervious to contradictory reason or experience. The question to be asked is not so much about the beliefs that those under 35 hold, but how, why, and when they give way to a more nuanced and more realistic understanding of the world.

Bold is mine, because that part matters. Are my ideas so fixed that they are impervious to reason and/or experience? I hope not.

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April 9: Stump the Pro-lifer!

March 20, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

Do you have questions you’ve always wanted to ask people who call themselves pro-life? Lingering concerns? Secret confusion? Do you think I’m a horrible person and you want to put me on the spot? Well then, it’s your lucky day…

Come one, come all to what promises to be a good event.

On Thursday, April 9, in the Agora at Ottawa University, you can ask all you’ve ever wanted from a panel of four. 7 pm. See you there.

StumpTheProLifer

 

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In Ontario’s sex education, it’s hidden in plain sight

February 26, 2015 by Johanne Brownrigg 2 Comments

Canada’s capital is undertaking one of the biggest infrastructure projects in its history: Light Rail Transit. As expected costs have been climbing. They are now reportedly over two billion. Yet this enormous, world class taxpayer-funded project has no public washrooms along the route factored into its design or its budget. That’s right. Until the GottaGo campaign pointed this out to the citizenry in the nation’s capital, this colossal oversight was hidden in plain view.

First came the obvious jokes on the subject, then some media acknowledgement and then the public became engaged. As the news became known, most people were quite surprised that this was deliberately left out and continues to be left out. How can the plan focus only on getting people somewhere without considering their needs? It took a middle-aged, keen-eye woman to point out the reality of LRT as it would be experienced in everyday life, once the whole project would be completed.

Can we turn to ordinary folk to see what other lofty plans look like in the cold harsh light of reality? Well, let’s discuss the expertly designed sex education curriculum in Ontario.

Parents have expressed serious reservations about how the curriculum will have a pre-ordained roll out of sexually charged information. This is not a biology lesson in reproduction with all the wonders of the human body explained appropriately at reasonable ages. It is not the health lesson explaining STIs. Parents are not objecting with having lessons on cyber bullying or on why not to sext.

The sex-ed program, introduces concepts like gender fluidity at a grade 3 level, meaning that having a vagina doesn’t make you a girl. It is one that will talk about masturbation and facilitate the how-to discussion for 11-year-old boys and girls.

This incredible change has naturally upset many parents. The more they know, the more they object.

What has escaped the experts in their deliberations, their plans and their purpose is the reality of the classroom. How can the plan focus only on getting people somewhere without considering the reality involved in getting there?

Do these experts pre-suppose that the classroom is a static, orderly academic environment in grade school and through high school so that lectures and lessons can be given with a quasi-university seriousness? Well, parents know that there are some children who still wet their beds in grade three. There are children who believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. There are autistic and other special needs children in class rooms who contribute to the dynamic of a class room and to the work of a teacher. Every day, there are teachers in those classrooms who are working with children who have found out today, that mom is leaving or dad isn’t coming back. Or that someone is dying. Teachers are incorporating healthy eating and exercising with saving the planet. They are recycling, reviewing, re-teaching, reminding and let’s not forget, re-acting to those in their charge. Teaching is an exhausting and demanding profession that most of us stand in awe of.

But it is not parenting. It is a complementary role. It is a necessary role. Good parents and good teachers, for the most part, are grateful for each other.

Still for too long, there have been teachers in both the Catholic and Public Boards, who have taken it upon themselves to educate their students away from their family’s values. They have anointed themselves saviours in the battle for the heart not just the mind of their students. In the hands of these teachers, many parents are extremely concerned about the sex ed curriculum that repeatedly encourages students to talk to a trusted peer or adult but never mentions talking to their parents.

So we have a shiny newly designed modern sex-education curriculum in Ontario. Eventually, more parents will recognize this curriculum’s built-in lack of parental discernment for this sensitive and mature subject. Eventually they will recognize the complete disrespect experts have for the parental role.

Parental awareness may not increase through a large public rally. It may not happen through a petition signing blitz. It will happen when the cement has dried on this public education project. One day the work will be accidently brought home or the topic brought up while tucking a child in with the bedtime kiss. Then, once again, a middle-aged mom (or dad) will see what has been hidden in plain sight. By then however, will the cost have been too high?

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Getting married, living common-law

February 14, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 3 Comments

I did this little piece about the difference between living common law as a new longterm relationship norm and getting married. The comments are always fun. There’s a note on behalf of All Divorced Canadian Men telling me to stuff it, as well as the usual clever atheist drawing out the fact that Christians are Loons Who Cannot Think. Truthfully, I privately take bets on how early that remark will arrive. It makes it fun. Now the challenge for everyone else is to replace “Christian” with “Jewish” (“They are not to be trusted! They twist arguments!”) so that we all understand how clearly bigoted that kind of remark is. Tis the new normal. And if I couldn’t take it, I wouldn’t write columns.

Oh, and Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Loons. Beautiful creatures, symbolic of Canada, who can swim great distances under water! I quite admire them, actually

 

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Magna Carta: our shared legacy of liberty

February 9, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Please consider supporting John Robson and Brigitte Pellerin in making this documentary:

Hosted by John Robson, “Magna Carta: Canada’s Legacy of Liberty” will visit key British, American and Canadian sites from Runnymede to Westminster, Jamestown, Valley Forge and Nova Scotia in a feature-length documentary to bring Canada’s history to life. Our nation is not a recent, intellectual concept that arose out of a sociology department. It is an adventure in liberty under law that is still being written.

The documentary will explain the origins of our government: How control of the purse by the commons, freedom of speech in Parliament, the specific, accessible legal remedies that protect ordinary people from arbitrary arrest and the seizure of their property were all affirmed in Magna Carta, and preserved over succeeding centuries by men and women clear on their rights and brave in their defence.

An excellent enterprise, made by smart and fun people. What could be better!?

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New video supporting physicians’ conscience rights

February 5, 2015 by Natalie Sonnen 5 Comments

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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

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Tell the College of Physicians and Surgeons not to deny conscience

January 22, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 3 Comments

Ontario doctors will be forced to participate in abortions even if it goes against their beliefs, thanks to a new draft policy by the College of Physicians. Doctors must be able to practice medicine freely. The CPSO is accepting feedback until February 20th here. Please write in, telling the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario what you believe. Diversity 

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