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Just legal, not safe or rare

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Seems like there are a lot of law suits against Planned Parenthood these days. This one is particularly sad. But what’s a woman to make of this statement from Planned Parenthood?

Planned Parenthood Metropolitan has denied the injuries suffered and the infertility of Shantese Butler. In addition, they state in their answer that Butler’s claims are barred by the doctrines of informed consent and assumption of risk.

The average Canadian woman’s response will, with all seriousness be this: What? There are risks to having an abortion?

This and this imply all legal abortions are safe. This makes it clear that childbirth is more dangerous. (And certainly bearing children has its risks, but is it fair to weigh bringing life into the world against killing?) Cautionary information is so rare on so-called pro-choice sites as to be imaginary. In this notion called being pro-choice, there seem to be strong elements that encourage women to have abortions. I think this is because it’s hard for women to abort their children–it better be physically risk-free, otherwise women wouldn’t so easily choose it. 

Informed consent is not the friend of the pro-abortion movement.

h/t Michelle Malkin

Medical opinionist to the stars

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Do you have to be as brash as a punk rocker to sift through opinion and get to medical fact?

the doctor tried to give clinical advice, suggesting to Courtney [Love] that it was not a great idea to have a baby while dealing with [heroine] addiction.”

“… Courtney, who was only six weeks pregnant, went into a confrontational mode, saying: ‘Is that a medical fact, or is that just your opinion? I want to see it in a medical book…’”

“He sheepishly acknowledged that at this early stage of pregnancy a woman could discontinue heroin use with no physical or psychological damage to the fetus.”

“Courtney looked triumphant as she towered over the doctor seated at his desk.”

Courtney stopped taking heroin and daughter Frances Bean was born in perfect health later that year.

How often do medical professionals offer abortion up as the quick-fix? We can be sure it didn’t only ever happen to Courtney Love.

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Andrea adds: Let me first say I think that doing drugs while pregnant is bad. But a heroine drug abuser can more easily quit their habit than an alcoholic. Read about this little known fact here (and consider “harm reduction strategies” while you do.) If doctors can’t be bothered to help a heroine addict through simple flu-like withdrawal symptoms over a couple of days, how much less will they be prepared to help a woman through a nine month unexpected pregnancy?

Holy cow

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According to this news story, kids aged 10 to 16 spend something like 6 hours A DAY in front of a screen. That’s almost a full-time job… yikes. And 90 per cent of children in this country aren’t getting enough exercise.

I guess planting the little nippers in front of the tube is easier than playing with them or driving them to soccer practice. But really, that’s no way to parent. And since 90 per cent is awfully close to 100 per cent of children, it means virtually every parent in this country can – and should – do better.

Earthquakes and family policy

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Stories like this highlight the injustice of Communist China’s one child policy. We forget about the horrible nature of this repressive regime–and extreme family planners in North America are so keen on curbing population growth that they almost never comment on the substantial injustice and curtailing of freedom that tells parents they can’t have as many kids as they want. (They also respond to natural disasters with condoms, but that deserves a post of its own.) Folks–Malthus is dead, literally and figuratively.

The May 12 quake was particularly painful to many Chinese because it killed so many only children. …

If the couple’s legally born child is killed and the couple is left with an illegally born child under the age of 18, that child can be registered as the legal child — an important move that gives the child previously denied rights including free nine years of compulsory education.

I’m keeping mine

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Because there are protest ideas that just aren’t worth it:

MONTREAL — Canadian women are being asked to send their panties to the Burma embassy in Ottawa to protest the actions of the country’s military regime.

The call for the underwear is part of the Panties for Peace! campaign, launched by rights activists in Montreal.

Activists say the campaign is meant to send a message to Burma’s authoritarian leaders, who reportedly fear contact with women’s underwear will sap their power.

It’s not because these guys are both idiotic and nasty that we have to imitate them.

Ads are deceptive?

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Well, well, well. The Advertising Standards Council has declared that Life Canada’s ads, which we’ve posted about on this site, are “deceptive.” Now that they aren’t isn’t even worth saying here. But since the ASC has decided to weigh in on this issue, I have a couple of other beefs to raise.

When I wear Calvin Klein, I don’t look like like Kate Moss, not even close. When I purchase J Crew, no preppy man and golden retriever appear. And even when I buy Martha Stewart’s magazine, my apartment does not magically begin to look well-decorated… I’m only warming up here. I could keep going.  

If the Advertising Standards Council wants to weigh in on deceptive ads, they better get busy. And get the ideologues who only see deception when it comes to abortion off their board.

Fact: There is no abortion law in Canada. What more do they need to know?

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Brigitte wonders: How long do you think it will take me to make that delicious-looking cake on the cover of this month’s Martha Stewart Living (to which I’ve subscribed faithfully for years)? Should I ask the Council? What if they tell me it’ll take me twice as long as the magazine claims, because only Martha Stewart can produce baking wonders in the alloted time? Should I feel offended? Should we all be offended by a Council that tells us we can’t understand as simple a message as “it is technically legal in Canada for a pregnant woman to abort her unborn child throughout the nine months of her pregnancy”?

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Andrea wonders: Whether or not the Advertising Standards Council’s web site itself is a bit “deceptive”. Because I just clicked over to their site, and all the people pictured look friendly. Check it out for yourself. (And yes, I’ve just linked you to the “How to submit a complaint” page, and yes, I will be sending them a friendly letter, myself. Feel free to do likewise, if the spirit moves you. Trust me, I can think of better things to do with my spare time, but this cro-magnon man “ruling” is just too much.)  

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Update: You can read more about this story, here, from today’s National Post in British Columbia.

My local grocery store, bullet-style

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Seen while stocking-up on lunch supplies last Saturday:

 

  • One seafood counter employee cleaning his workspace with a mean-looking hose. Floor is cement with a drain in the middle. Dream of a house made of cement with central drain. At the end of the day, hose down kids with dishes, counters and floors.
  • $0.79 broccoli. Not newsworthy unless you noticed the $3.77 broccoli two days prior. Some say global food crisis. I say somebody was out to make a quick buck on broccoli, ended up having too much broccoli to sell.
  • One lanky pre-pubescent boy with a t-shirt saying “Sugar Daddy.” Thanks but no thanks. Not today. Not ever.
  • One grown 40-something woman with a “Grey’s Anatomy” cropped t-shirt. Klassy. Not that I haven’t been known to watch the show. But it’s terrible what two years of graduate studies in bioethics does to one’s appreciation of medical dramas.
  • One Filipino nanny, grocery shopping with her young charge. On a Saturday afternoon. I comfort myself believing that the child’s parents probably work weekends. My experience with acquaintances employing immigrant live-in nannies tells me that this is not likely the case.
  • Many “worst beach bodies” on display near the cash registers. Am reminded that I can easily forgo fame and fortune if it comes at the cost of seeing my cellulite splashed across North-American gossip rags. Am ashamed that the world I live in gives a market to that kind of news, thus telling my daughters that how they look in a bikini is actually relevant.

Your local grocery store: a never ending source of entertainment.

The pink elephant

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Here’s another fine example of why the pro-abortion mentality wants the abortion rate to continue decreasing:

We’d like to see a figure go way below 50,000 [abortions annually] because that means … men and women in this country would protect themselves and decrease or eliminate unwanted pregnancies,” he [Andre Lalonde of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada] said.

Unwanted pregnancy is what Mr. Lalonde wants to eliminate. Sure! Of course! Unwanted pregnancy, if left unchecked, leads to a child. And we all know what happens when you have a child!

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It’s evident that more than one important factor is still being ignored: the act of abortion itself, and the serious mental and physical repercussions to the woman. Talk about a herd of pink elephants!

Gosh, what did you expect?

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Two stories jumped at me this morning. One about Julie Couillard (Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier’s ex-girlfriend, of past biker-gang and inappropriate décolletés fame) and how she feels “destroyed” and “abandoned” and how “her name has been dragged through the mud” and the other about Miley Cyrus and how “hurting” she is after her monumental bedsheet-picture-on-the-cover-of-Vanity-Fair gaffe.

At the risk of sounding dreadfully old-fashioned [what, again? – ed.], what could you possibly expect? If you spend as much time in close contact with bikers as Ms. Couillard did (marrying one such dude and dating another, one of whom – I forget which – wound up dead in a ditch), or if you display too much skin in inappropriate places as both Ms. Couillard and Ms. Cyrus did, yeah, that kind of thing will stick to your name. It’s called CONSEQUENCES. That doesn’t mean you can’t bounce back from that sort of setback – I’m a huge believer in redemption. But in order to redeem yourself you have to start by acknowledging that you made mistakes for which you feel truly sorry instead of complaining about how “hurt” you are.

You want to be in control of your life, lady? Start by taking responsibility for your actions – the good ones and the ridiculously bad ones.

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Evening update: Make that the former foreign affairs minister…

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