Well, here we are. The year is pretty much over. And while to many commentators it appears to have been a pretty darn wretched one, I’m quite pleased with it myself. Among many other good things that happened in 2008, I’m very grateful to Andrea for launching PWPL and delighted that she asked me to join. Thanks! And may 2009 bring even more good things to you and yours.

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Andrea asks: What’s that saying again–it takes a village to raise a web site? (For me, in any event, it took Brigitte.) In any event, don’t thank me, no, no. A good team effort here with PWPL. And yes, I think 2008 was a good one too!

Doctors advised these parents to abort, twice.

Last year we were still on a knife edge thinking things would go wrong. But now he’s out of the woods we are delighted that 2009 will be Kai’s year.”

A spokesman from Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust said they cannot comment on individual cases.

But he added: “Where abnormalities are spotted in the scans, our multi-disciplinary team will always offer prospective families the full facts and options as presented at the time.

I think you know by now where I stand on abortion in general. But what I think is worse are doctors who callously tell women what they don’t know for sure, such that many women barely endure their pregnancies in fear and worry.

Yawn. Yaaaaawwwwww—-nnnnnn.

“I think the proper reaction to a beauty pageant these days is to be bored by it. I would have thought that old version of feminism, which was violently opposed to lipstick and high heels, had died out by now. It’s an extinct image of feminism — that you can’t be both frivolous and serious or care about clothes and read books at the same time. And, in a way, it’s sort of depressing that these same old-fashioned battles keep on being recycled.” …Take heart, sisters, for there is a new breed of feminist out there that is reinventing the ideology. Subscribing to the original feminist theories of equality (equal pay, equal rights and the importance of a right to choose), they pick the fights that mean something to them, ignoring the elements of feminist politics they find irrelevant.

You know what I’m bored by? Pro-abortion, “right to choose” feminists. How about having a new idea, ladies?

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Tanya rolls her eyes: “original feminist theories…right to choose.” Let’s ask an original feminist, Susan B. Anthony :

She blamed men, laws and the “double standard” for driving women to abortion because they had no other options. (”When a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is a sign that, by education or circumstances, she has been greatly wronged.” 1869) She believed, as did many of the feminists of her era, that only the achievement of women’s equality and freedom would end the need for abortion.”