…fetus? Whether one is wanted or not shouldn’t change the substance of what one is.

I don’t find this laugh-out-loud funny, however, it does make some interesting points about the culture we live in and some of the less-than-stellar ways that men and women behave in the bar scene. It doesn’t make men or women look particularly great, but because it’s Slate and not me making the critique, there’s some small chance people might actually pay attention.

The National Post reports that the student group that wants club status at Kwantlen Polytechnic University is suing:

Oliver Capko, a first-year agriculture student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Langley, B.C., had applied for his group, Protectores Vitae, to become a funded campus club, but the Kwantlen Student Association’s executive denied that status because it is a pro-choice student government.

Mr. Capko and the Protectores members were offered the unfunded ‘recognized group’ status, which the KSA gives to political and religious groups, but has declined. “It is unfortunate that we have to sue our own student representatives in order to secure equal and fair treatment on campus,” Mr. Capko said in a statement. “We are not religious, nor are we political.”

Feminists for Life has put out what looks to be a good resource called “Hard Cases, Exceptional Choices.” It chronicles the really rough cases of women who were raped but chose non-violence (their words, but I like them, since abortion is a violent act) for their children. It chronicles the stories of women conceived in rape, as well as the difficult cases of babies who lived only two hours due to medical conditions.

We need to hear more of these inspiring stories in order for more women to make similar choices.

I think my sister did this kind of kicking of yours truly on long car rides.

This article leads one to believe that her request for an abortion was not clear.

In the realm of trying to convince people that being pro-life is the right way to go, sometimes I lose perspective.

So when a Canadian blogger released data showing that 491 babies were born alive and left to die over a ten year period in Canada, I failed to post about it.I think it’s because many babies die annually, so it failed to register with me that these deaths are very egregious. Are they worse than other abortions? I’d argue yes.

They are worse because these are most often babies with some sickness or illness (disability) that the parents have found out about at a late number of weeks. I am particularly disturbed by abortion because a baby has Down Syndrome, for example.

They are worse, because it causes nurses and doctors to turn a blind eye to the people we are supposed to actually care about–those who are born. So the line between abortion and infanticide is very blurry here.

They are worse, because the most vulnerable among us are left to die alone, at an age when they can feel pain.

I’ll let Jill Stanek inform you on what this looks like. She’s an American nurse who was a whistleblower on the practice in the United States.

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I really enjoy reading Kay Hymowitz. Here, she tackles why it is we see fewer women in top positions. In a nutshell: because this is what they choose. And better family benefits don’t change the situation, either:

Can such family-friendly policies admit more women to the executive suite? Not on the evidence. Consider two countries with some of the most highly touted family policies in the world, the kind that the work/family advocates are always calling for: France and Sweden…. The conclusion that a number of them have reached provides a textbook case of unintended consequences: the very family policies that make it easier for women to combine work and family discourage them from pursuing career Olympus. In a paper called “Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?,” James Albrecht and colleagues speculate that the country’s maternal benefits are so generous that they “may discourage strong career commitment” by women. The paper also points out that Sweden’s liberal wage policies, elevating incomes at the bottom of society, make it prohibitively expensive for many ambitious mothers—and mothers still do most of the child care, even in Sweden—to hire outside help during hours when day-care centers are closed.

Love any and all of Véronique’s posts. Here’s the story of how her twins were born.

Elected officials in India are losing their jobs for having more than 2 children. Read more here,

Ravi Yadav, who was elected to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) from Langar House, was disqualified by the court as he had three children, which was in violation of election rules governing the civic body. The high court declared Uday Kumar of the BJP as elected in his place. Uday Kumar had challenged Ravi Yadav’s election of 1995.

This is the second time that a court has disqualified a member of GHMC on the ground of number of children. Earlier a Congress corporator Vanaja Lakshman Goud was disqualified by the court as she had three children. But in her affidavit she had declared the names of only two. In that case the court declared Bhanumati of MIM as the winner as she had come second in the elections. The high court passed the orders under Section-21B of the GHMC Act, 2009.

Under the 1995 Act of civic body polls, if a candidate has more than two children, he or she is ineligible to contest elections. Yadav faced the allegation that he failed to provide correct information on the number of his children at the time of filing his nomination.

Observers say that this can lead to many more such complaints and litigations against the elected representatives of local bodies who were known to have more than the stipulated number of children. It is believed that there were 10 elected members of GHMC who had more than two children and their rivals were now likely to drag them to court.

The same two child norm also applies to MLAs and MLCs but many of the elected representatives are continuing in their positions as no one challenged them.