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Sorry Andrea…

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I’m not trying to make you cry, I promise. But you know, sometimes we forget that being pro-life isn’t only about saving unborn babies from abortion. Check out the last minute and 20 seconds of this video. When’s the last time anyone stood up for people like Cody Ring? Who’s the last politician who paid attention to him and made him feel like he had a right to belong?


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Andrea adds: It’s fine to post these things on a weekend, Brigitte, when I can watch in the privacy of my own home… (and this one is not as poignant as the other.) But it still highlights for me how hollow “every child a wanted child” is as an abortion slogan. Every child a wanted child is more appropriately a pro-life slogan: Do we believe the Cody Rings of this world should be killed? Or do we believe we should find someone to love them? And there’s the question of the day.

Sense and Sexuality

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Dr. Miriam Grossman’s pamphlet, Sense and Sexuality, landed on my desk this week. Like this part:

Look, there are irritations you may face in college that are out of your control: roommates who endlessly hit “snooze”; weird dorm odors; mandatory Friday morning lab; a computer crash at the worst possible time. They may seem disastrous, but someday, when you recall them, you’ll laugh. Then there are challenges you may face in college, or later, that will never bring a smile. Blisters or warts in private places. Meaningless, regrettable sex. Pre-cancerous conditions. Age-related infertility. These are huge issues that affect women more often than men. They can throw your life plans off track. They can stand between you and your dreams.

Though written on pretty pink paper, there are parts of the pamphlet that are both graphic and gross. This is necessary, however, given that girls are engaging in all the activities she describes therein, thinking it is normal and necessary, and furthermore, that when they feel bad the morning after, they are abnormal for that–that they are alone. You’d be hard pressed to find any acknowledgement of the stats, pretty much anywhere that say that 91 per cent of girls have feelings of regret after a “hook-up.” Look–women mostly have higher expectations of sex and certainly experience a greater burden when things go wrong–which with hook-ups, is almost guaranteed.

Why are so few willing to say this on campus? (Carleton University, for one, links here. If you fail to find the advice there helpful, you’re not alone. “Don’t brush your teeth or floss right before oral sex”? Sad to say, these are “the experts”. No wonder Dr. Grossman sees girl after girl in her office, suffering from mental and physical illness.)

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Rebecca adds: That is really interesting and deserves to be widely circulated. As far as I know, lots of sex ed curricula still describe oral sex or “mutual masturbation” (for lack of a less cringeworthy phrase) as safe alternatives. From a purely physical perspective it may well be safer than vaginal or anal sex, but it’s clearly not risk free, and it’s irresponsible not to give this information to teenagers and university students.

Something special indeed

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[h/t Michelle Malkin]
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Andrea adds: Thanks for finding these stories and posts, Brigitte. I’m going to stop watching/reading them at work, though. Because everytime you post on this topic I cry. It’s not particularly professional. Maybe it’s because of these heroic parents. Maybe it’s because of the faces of those kids and adults, who are different, sure, but are they not people, too, and why can’t we as a society see that? Maybe it’s because I know that we, as a society, sanction killing these people and those on the screen are the lucky ones, simply for being alive.

Look up “pro-abortion” in the dictionary and it will say…

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…Barack Obama. The term “pro-abortion” really works for him. Read all about that, here.

The take away is for pro-lifers who like Obama and would vote for him under the pretense that he wants to diminish the number of abortions. He doesn’t, and they should take a long hard look at who they are voting for.

In the end, the efforts of Obama’s apologists to depict their man as the true pro-life candidate that Catholics and Evangelicals may and even should vote for, doesn’t even amount to a nice try. Voting for the most extreme pro-abortion political candidate in American history is not the way to save unborn babies.

Hoping Father De Souza has his facts wrong

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Why? Because of this:

[Barack Obama] has said that his first act as president would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would eliminate by federal statute any abortion regulations in all of the 50 states.

and this:

…the substance of his abortion policy is extreme and counter-productive. It puts him far outside the American mainstream. So why does he adopt it? Voters can only conclude that Mr. Obama believes in his policy sincerely.

It’s not often I sincerely hope that writers are wrong. Sadly, here, Father De Souza isn’t. Barack Obama is radically pro-abortion, out of a sincere belief. Babies as punishment–that was no gaffe. That’s how he feels. Good thing I’m not looking to legislative reform for any source of inspiration on the topic of abortion–whether in Canada or the USA, it doesn’t look like there will be any relief, any time soon.

Ethics for embryos

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If you have a slice of time today, you may want to watch the live feed of the New York State Stem Cell Science Ethics Committee Meeting.

Here’s a side of the issue I never thought about before: If a woman’s eggs are harvested for the purposes of IVF, a research company may eventually approach her in the future, if the eggs go unused, and ask to fertilize her eggs with sperm from an anonymous donor. *gag* Is anyone else’s skin crawling?

At 2pm, of special interest, they will be discussing ‘Respect for the Embryo.’

From what I’ve gathered so far, everyone in the room is for embryonic stem cell research. Let’s see how balanced this discussion manages to be.

Now that’s a debate

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Can you imagine Canadian politicians discussing abortion like this?

Senator McCain, you believe Roe v. Wade should be overturned. Senator Obama, you believe it shouldn’t. Could either of you ever nominate someone to the Supreme Court who disagrees with you on this issue? 

 

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Tanya asks: Did Obama just say he’s supportive of abstinence education?

We should try to prevent unintended pregnancies by providing appropriate education to our youth, communicating that sexuality is sacred and that they should not be engaged in cavalier activity. And providing options for adoption and helping single mothers if they want to choose to keep the baby.”

That does not sound like what a Planned Parenthood advocate should be spouting. Lest we forget…

 

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Not even the choir is singing…

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I agree with Paul Tuns over at Sobering Thoughts. Robert Fulford’s piece about Harper is good.

But so far as we can gather, nothing [Harper] did during 33 months in office altered his reputation as a potential danger to what many Canadians like to call, in their most euphoric moments, “Canadian values.” In trying to convert voters to his view of government, he seems to be dreaming an impossible dream, as the song goes, while struggling “to fight for the right.” Not enough of us are singing along.

Not enough are singing along–not dedicated conservatives (small-c) and certainly not the rest of the country. To win a majority, you need a leader who can at least inspire the choir, and then do a bit more.

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Rebecca adds: “To win a majority, you need a leader who can at least inspire the choir, and then do a bit more.”

Indeed.  In 2006, Harper went up against a reeling Liberal party coming off Adscam and scandals involving biker gangs, led by the comically bumbling Paul Martin, and only managed a minority. Yesterday, Harper went up against a Liberal party advocating a massive and elaborate tax hike and no sound fiscal policy in the midst of an economic crisis, led by Stephane Dion’s leadership which brings to mind Abbot and Costello skits, and managed only a (larger) minority. At some point, Conservatives should ask if he’s ever going to close the deal.

The next question is, of course, who would be better? And how do Conservatives make him (or her, but probably him) the leader without yet another conservative schism that hands the Liberals another decade on a platter?

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