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On surrogacy

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I love it when I stumble across a good article. I love it even more when it turns out the author is a member of ProWomanProLife. Brigitte Pellerin writes here about surrogate motherhood. My favourite part comes in the kicker: 

What bothers me most about it is that it is part of a wider culture that promotes and aggressively encourages anything that lets adults indulge their every whim and fancy. On any given day, countless women go for an abortion while countless others go through invasive assisted reproductive techniques while other women wait to have their uterus chosen to carry someone else’s precious embryo or their ovaries plucked so they can sell their eggs. The only moral standard here is that whatever I want is right, and must be mine. It is not possible to build a coherently decent society on such a basis.

“What I want is right.” (And when I think about it, do I even know what I want?) This is the basis for our abortion-friendly culture. And we call it “women’s rights.” How very empowering.

Why indeed

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A longish (but mildly entertaining) piece about “liquid leggings” that takes way too many words to come to the only obvious conclusion. It’s an idiotic piece of clothing. That just about every woman who is not Angelina Jolie should stay well away from. I was way ahead of the curve; I never had any intention of wearing those things. Sometimes, having no interest in fashion is the most fashionable thing around. Squelch. Squelch. Squeak. Squeak.

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Andrea adds:

It will likely be one of those trends that’s increasingly hard to understand once the moment has passed, she says. “In the future, we’ll probably look back and say ‘Oh my God, I was wearing plastic leggings in public.

In the future, like after lunch today? I note they are difficult to wash, and don’t breathe. Mmmmm.

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Tanya advises: Difficult to wash? Whatever! Just pass a Clorox wipe over them and you’re done.

March of the penguin

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AndreaGoesToWork

Since Ottawa transit went on strike I’ve been walking to work. And home. And everywhere else. I am now ready to thank them for the extra turkey I will have over Christmas. All this walking in minus 1000 has to be good for something.

And it begins…

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beluga2008

2008 is drawing to a close and the “Best of” lists are trickling in. I came upon the Canadian Press’ 5 best photos of year. Right up this photographer’s alley. My pick would have to be this baby beluga whale as it exits its mother’s birth canal. (I wonder if anyone argued that it was only a baby whale once it had fully emerged from its mother. Nah! That’s ridiculous!)

Meaningful life–simply because

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This story in today’s Citizen.

Rob Warner is grateful for his son’s life of 323 days, 17 years ago. He describes how Liam Michael Warner was born with Trisomy 13 and not expected to live two months. 

The doctor told him: 

Treat him with the same respect and love you would a normal child. There was no need for him to ask us to love our son, but I’m glad he did. It said something about the man. And we listened well.

Warner says he is thankful for that doctor, for friends who supported him, for his wife of “reliable grace and strength.”

He concludes by saying this: 

Liam Michael Warner would have been 17 on Dec. 13.

He had a right to be here.

Indeed.

Short lives, long lives, disabled lives–all meaningful lives. I’m grateful for stories like this one–where the human spirit rises over tough circumstances and responds with grace, dignity and strength.

Er…

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fetal attractions troop ornament

I’m all for supporting a culture of life, but this is just too much. It gets points for originality, though.

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Andrea adds: Those clever pro-abortion types, making all kinds of funny, satirical toys around the theme of abortion. Because everyone wants to be reminded that we sanitize killing and repackage it as “reproductive choice” this Christmas. Buy one today!  Just another way to make money, I suppose, and funnel it back into Planned Parenthood. Though I find this ridiculous, I’ll agree with the reader who commented that it actually proves the pro-life point. I’d been sent the “fetal cookie cutters” before, and the yuck factor is so great with those that you start to wonder, really wonder, about the person who would create such a thing.

Just for fun

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[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW34kHnpo1g]

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Tanya adds: Love this, and it’s from the most pointless Christmas special ever. Perhaps if they hadn’t based the half-hour special around the California Raisins — not exactly what I call timeless — it would be playing alongside Rudolph, Frosty, and the Grinch today.

Viva Polska

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This blog post asks whether abortion should be illegal in Poland (it is currently). It starts out using the euphemisms of reproductive rights, but ends with a more thoughtful line of questioning:

I was going to ask – “Do women in fact have ‘the right’ to exercise such control over their own bodies when it comes to the question of terminating pregnancies?” but decided not to thinking the answer might simply depend on one’s religious tendencies. But then I wondered if perhaps there might be other points of view?

Why yes, there are other points of view! Thanks for asking. Welcome to ProWomanProLife. 

Anyhoo, the author points to an article from the UK about how for Polish women apparently England is a popular abortion destination.

This highlights two things for me:

One: If Polish women are travelling to the UK and not travelling to the Czech Republic or Russia, two neighbouring countries where abortion is very much legal and available then they really aren’t desperate. 

Two: Polish women are some of the most discerning, stylish, smart, fashionable, savvy women I know. Ie. not oppressed. This speaks to one of my themes–abortion has nothing to do with women’s rights.

This All Things Polish blog, turns out to be very funny, in particular to me, since I have some Polish heritage. Check out Ciocia Halina (Auntie Halina) “your problem is my joy”–which really, really speaks to the, er, shall we say interested and invested nature of Polish families, parents too. Then this post made me laugh: Ten Things to Remember when you Have a Polish Girlfriend. (Note No. 9–she’s smarter than you!)

A terrific read

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I just finished Nick Hornby’s Slam, a “teen fiction” novel in which a teenage boy gets his girlfriend pregnant. I’m a big fan – I even like the movie they made out of High Fidelity, even though it is not (or ought not to be) properly “teen” fiction. Lots of swear words and other vulgar things – like in this scene, here.

Anyway. None of that in Slam. Just a touching story very nicely written. At some point, the girlfriend, Alicia, has “the” conversation with her mother about whether she should keep the baby. It doesn’t last very long:

So you don’t know what you think yet, do you? You can’t possibly know whether you want to keep it or not.”

“Oh, I know that,” said Alicia. “I’m not killing my baby.”

“You’re not killing a baby. You’re –”

“I’ve been reading about it on the Internet. It’s a baby.”

Alicia’s mum sighed.

“I wondered where you’d been getting this stuff from,” she said. “Listen, the people who post things on the Internet about abortions, they’re all evangelical Christians, and –”

“Doesn’t matter what they are, does it? Facts are facts,” said Alicia.

As I said, a terrific read. Not preachy at all. Just, you know, real.

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