A Czech mom discovers she is pregnant with quintuplets. That’s a whole lot of babies to have all at once! I hope they are all healthy and that she gets the support she is very much going to need.

Don’t call this mama a saint because doing so devalues the life of her daughter. I think hers is a voice that needs to be heard:

My husband and I adopted a daughter from overseas who has special needs. She is significantly visually impaired, has epilepsy and is significantly delayed.

I want you to know that I am not a saint for wanting this child and it really burns my butt when you make me sound like one. When people tell me what an angel I am for adopting my daughter, it makes her sound like a huge burden. Otherwise, why would it be so noteworthy for me to love her? She’s not a burden. She’s a blessing. Every day, no matter what happens.

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A hoax, but I thought it would delight Andrea, given her love of mermaids.

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Andrea adds: Those guys are about as good at acting as I would be. Ie. Not terribly good. But funny. And you never do see who the mermaid is… perhaps my order from Florida dude selling tails had just arrived? No one will ever know for sure.

My piece in the Ottawa Citizen about the legacy of Dr. Henry Morgentaler.

This is Morgentaler’s legacy: The death of a child, renamed a choice, and without limit in Canada.

May 29, 2013 (Ottawa)—Today ProWomanProLife acknowledges the death of Dr. Henry Morgentaler and offers sincere condolences to his family and friends.

For many thousands of women across Canada, this is a day to mourn the sorrow and pain he has caused precisely because he made abortion mainstream. His life, marked by suffering itself as a survivor of the Holocaust, was one in which he “treated” a woman’s suffering with the death of her unborn child.

Morgentaler is not a hero. To the contrary: many Canadians mourn that he remained unrepentant, to the best of our knowledge, unlike the famous abortion doctor and founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League in the United States, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who became vociferously pro-life after seeing abortion for what it is: the killing of an innocent child.

Morgentaler’s death cannot pass by without remembrance for the women, who, in their hour of need faced a doctor who instead of reminding them of the humanity they carry and hope for the future, told them the unborn are merely a clump of cells.

“I never saw a woman enter or leave an abortion clinic joyfully. Morgentaler marked the creation of an era in which ‘I don’t want to do this, but I must’ became strangely, the hallmark of triumph for women’s rights,” says Andrea Mrozek, director of ProWomanProLife.

“In the public sphere, his passing will not be without mourning for those he chose not to see—first and foremost women with all their natural reproductive capabilities and second, the many thousands of lives taken before they breathed their first breath.”

Where the public actions of a man are wrong, it is impossible to speak soothing platitudes at the time of his death. Morgentaler, time will show, stood on the wrong side of history and it is for this reason that ProWomanProLife makes this statement today; that the historical record may show that many Canadian women did not admire Dr. Henry Morgentaler.

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Read more here.

From the news story about the baby rescued from a sewer pipe in China:

The mother of the Chinese newborn rescued from a sewer pipe has said she kept her pregnancy secret after the father refused to stand by her and she could not afford an abortion.

The ordeal of Baby 59 – known only by the number of his hospital incubator – made headlines around the world after extraordinary footage was shown of firefighters and medics freeing him from the narrow pipe. Police in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, initially thought the baby had been abandoned and said they were treating the case as one of attempted homicide.

But they subsequently realised that the resident who had raised the alarm, and who remained present throughout the two-hour rescue on Saturday, was his mother. Local media said she told police she wanted to raise the child but had no idea how to do it.

I wouldn’t mind reflecting for a second on the “could not afford an abortion” part of the report. If she could have afforded the abortion, Baby no. 59, pictured sleeping above, would not be a controversy, because he’d be dead. We go to extraordinary lengths to save babies, once they are born. Now it appears the mother would like to parent. I’d be grateful if she got the opportunity. Seems to me her son got a new lease on life, and so should she.

The concept sounds awkward, but is actually quite funny in moments. This sketch is called “Blind Date.” I post it largely for the laughs, but also because this one, how to put this, highlights a couple of gender differences in a fairly stark way.

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As you may know by now, I do not like reading Jane Austen, but I do thoroughly enjoy the BBC Pride and Prejudice.

So I found this post very funny, I must admit.

God save me from the social skills of Mr. Collins, is all I have to say. (There are moments when I go home from a cocktail party kicking myself, for sure. Which incidentally, Mr. Collins would not do, because he’d be too obtuse to worry.)

The headline of the article reads “Anti-abortion group uses gruesome images to target ridings of MPs who voted against pro-life motion.” An article about my friend Stephanie Gray’s latest campaign, which juxtaposes the faces of pro-choice MPs against pictures of dead babies.

I have my issues with the campaign. I am not confident that the images without the voices of Stephanie and her team are a win. So while I don’t have a problem with the use of graphic images, I do believe there should be a person there to discuss those images when people inevitably have a strong reaction.

However, at the end of the day, I do agree with Stephanie on this:

I’m 100% confident that we’ll win,” she says.

The future is pro-life, folks, of that I am confident.

Finally, no pro-life group garners more attention for the problem of abortion in our culture like Stephanie’s. And for that, I continue to be grateful. It’s not an issue to be complacent over, that’s for sure.