You knew this was coming. Enjoy.

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Update: This is fun too.

I find this piece to be rather weak. Discussing the personhood status of the fetus does not inject irrationality into the abortion debate. It’s a critical point:

Yet, there is no rational way to decide when personhood begins. Thus, the abortion debate has always been infected with irrationality. But, even if we assumed that personhood begins at conception, why should that “person” have sanctuary in the body of someone who doesn’t want it there? In short, it simply doesn’t follow that the attribution of personhood should resolve the question.

The abortion debate should focus less on the mysteries of embryonic life and more on the limits of governmental power. This would entail facing squarely how far the government of a democracy should be authorized to regulate what people — in this case, women — can do inside their own bodies. It might help to examine other situations where the relationship of government and our bodies is at issue.

Our law rarely compels people to be Good Samaritans. Even though parents are required, for example, to look after their under-age children, they are not required to give their children their blood, bone marrow, or organs. Even if the conduct of withholding parents is seen as immoral, there has been no serious suggestion for making it unlawful. Our society has long believed that compulsory organ sharing is repugnant to democratic principles. This consensus provides a much sounder basis for resolving the abortion controversy.

If we compel parents to take care of their children, there is something important in deciding what constitutes “children.” If a human being can only live in one place, the womb, for nine months–what then? Certainly there is sacrifice on the part of the woman, pro-lifers can’t ignore that. At the same time, this is a temporary (nine month) imposition whereas abortion imposes a death sentence on the child. The two can’t be weighed equally and you can’t figure out whether this is actually a death sentence for a child if you refuse to consider the personhood arguments. Seems to me that Alan Borovoy finds it convenient to claim “we can’t know,” while refusing to actually look.

I missed this yesterday: 

A foul-smelling envelope that prompted House of Commons security to call out Ottawa’s hazardous materials team Thursday was mailed to an MP who recently authored a controversial motion on when someone becomes a human being, iPolitics has learned.

I hesitate to draw attention to it, since there are crazy people everywhere, but I feel like “the other side” makes “crazy pro-lifers” a mainstay of their talking points. Meanwhile, there are crazies on both side. Equal opportunity.

More easy spoof terrain. First time voting compared to first time sex. Not the first time we’ve seen this. Getting old, people.

Do also consider that if  Republican candidate sponsored an ad this, he’d be accused of wanting to have perverted polyamourous relationships with thousands of university-aged young women, whilst simultaneously denying them birth control. (The second crime is worse than the first, in case you were wondering.)

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Well, polls show it anyway. We’ll see what happens on election day. Interesting, however, for all the “vote as if your uterus depended on it” comments from the Democrat camp. Could it be the fear mongering isn’t working?

Less than two weeks out from Election Day, Republican Mitt Romney has erased President Barack Obama’s 16-point advantage among women, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows. And the president, in turn, has largely eliminated Romney’s edge among men.

Those churning gender dynamics leave the presidential race still a virtual dead heat, with Romney favoured by 47 per cent of likely voters and Obama by 45 per cent, a result within the poll’s margin of sampling error, the survey shows.

Yesterday I discussed the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medals with Brian Lilley. You can watch it, here.

Ukraine has an election this weekend while former prime minister Julia Tymoshenko sits in jail. She has been sentenced to seven years. Seven years! Almost as long as Linda Gibbons as spent in jail.

My thoughts on Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner getting the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medals in today’s Ottawa Citizen:

At the end of the day, it appears Canada has no trouble honouring criminals. The name of Henry Morgentaler will be known to most as the doctor who performed illegal abortions and served several months in jail in the mid-1970s. He was received into the Order of Canada in October 2008.

Perhaps it’s Canada’s dedication to equality that now leads to two abortion protesters receiving a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal. Perhaps it’s recognition that the decades-old injunctions are anachronistic and serve only to curtail Canadians’ freedom of speech and movement for the dubious principle of not offending someone’s sensibilities.

“A rant” from the very lovely Véronique Bergeron is not to be missed, I tell you. You know her because she used to be your favourite PWPL blogger before she up and joined the circus. Anyway, that’s what she called this piece as she sent it to me; I think it’s less rant, more impassioned advocacy for motherhood and pregnancy. Enjoy.

Ottawa-based readers of this blog – and possibly others – must be familiar with the story of Julie Bilotta, a young mother left to deliver her premature breech baby unattended in an Ottawa jail cell. Read about it from the CBC here and the National Post here.

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What exactly is Obama talking about when he tries to tell America that Planned Parenthood provides services to women like “mammograms”?

Not only is Planned Parenthood almost totally mired in the “family planning” industry (read abortion & contraception), I’m wondering what other services are being offered when they cannot even perform mammograms?

The truth is the FDA has no record of a PP facility being authorized to perform such procedures. Under the federal Mammogram Quality Standards Act, administered by HHS, “[n]o facility may conduct an examination or procedure…involving mammography” without a certification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the FDA records all certificates and investigates facilities holding them. If Planned Parenthood could perform mammograms, the FDA (and HHS) would know it.

LiveAction does an amazing job of outing this particular Presidential lie with calls to PP clinics to see if they perform said mammograms. Have a listen!