Carleton allows pro-Khomeini event:

And Carleton, like all other Canadian universities, encourages a culture of debate and free expression.”Spokesman Steven Reid said the university would intervene if an event on cam-pus was promoting hate, illegal acts or violations of the Human Rights Code. “Beyond that, we don’t step in and quash things.”

Now seems like a good time to link to the images of Ruth Lobo, Carleton student, being put in handcuffs and led to a police paddy wagon for engaging her own campus on the abortion issue. Nice try, Carleton, nice try.

Again, the only people in jail today because of abortion are those who are pro-life.

Ottawa folks: still opportunity to go see She Has a Name tonight or through June 10, a play about human trafficking. And for other Canadians, they are touring the country so check the schedule for when it hits your town.

This Vanier Institute report looks at teen mothers and the support they need. It opens with this:

Over the last 2 decades, the teen pregnancy rate in Canada has dropped appreciably, declining 36.9% between 1996 and 2006 (McKay and Barrett, 2010).

The problem is this: teen pregnancy rates are the sum of live births, induced abortions and miscarriages. And we really have no sweet clue how many abortions teens are having, because we don’t collect accurate abortion statistics. Therefore, we cannot know with certainty that teen pregnancies are on the decline.

This is not a pro-life issue. It’s a research issue.

Freedom means making good choices against the odds. What a story. Reminds me of the book The Glass Castle.

I know it’s an ad, but it’s still true! Get out the tissues, and watch the “Best Job” video from Tide/P&G here.

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Andrea adds: She’s not kidding about the tissues. I have no idea what they are even advertising, but that’s a beautiful little clip.

This undemocratic Act should not stand.

An article on CBC online.

I have not read this paper yet. From Jezebel to Snow White: The shifting representations of women in Canadian anti-abortion discourse seems to take a pro-abortion view and features PWPL in part. One of the authors, Paul Saurette, came to an Institute of Marriage and Family Canada conference once. While he was pleasant enough, I had the feeling at that time that he was not there to learn from the conference, but rather to study… us, as if “conservative pro-lifers” are a subject heading in one of his files.

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