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Speechless

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Caught this while perusing The Corner. I don’t know what to say.

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Andrea adds: We’re speechless, apparently Manhattan Mini Storage is too. I just called the number on the ad, and was transferred to someone else in New Jersey. I asked (friendly, I promise) whether Mini Storage was actually working with pro-abortion forces or were they perhaps just given unfortunate placement on a billboard. She said it’s an old photograph and it’s not up in New York City today. And would say virtually nothing else–but she promised to call me back.

Now if you look at Mini Storage’s web site, you’ll note who they give money to if you contract with them for your storage needs. So pro-lifers will now know, well, not to.  

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Rebecca adds: Hey, they want to ban horse-drawn carriages. Surely if they want to stop domesticated beasts of burden from being used as beasts of burden, they would care that much more about unborn, you know, humans, right?

Right?

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Andrea again: One would think, Rebecca, but one would be wrong. No, I think this business is pandering to the Disenfranchaised Feminist and their coat hangar propaganda. Which likely means they have some interesting items in storage–things that 70s crowd is just forced to part with when they move to Manhattan–smaller apartments there, you know. Things like this or this. Or maybe even this–It would be painful be reminded of the Titanic when your movement is tanking right before your eyes.

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Tanya interjects: Upon first glance, Andrea, I mused that the pink couch (above) would make a great bassinet, especially seeing as colic is sometimes attributed to being separated from the comforts of the womb.  And it’s just the right size!

But on second thought, there may be a danger that pro-abortionists, finding the newborn ensconced there safely, would revoke her rights on the grounds that she has not fully emerged from the vaginal canal.

Move along, nothing to see here

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It was last week that the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a search for drugs on school grounds violates student rights. Some were concerned this meant students, on public property, would gain an undue sense of confidence in their own authority and that it would be tougher for adults and parents to enforce just about anything.

Have a read of “Kilt trip“–the journey of a perfectly delightful writer and social commentator, Dawn Eden (I’ve heard her live) into a Canadian high school and I’m sure we’ll all agree that those concerns are ill-founded. Move along, there’s nothing to see here.

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Tanya adds: How a court even goes about disallowing drug-sniffing dogs on public property (schools or elsewhere) is beyond me.

So much for the plan to introduce gun-detecting dogs in GTA schools.  

 

Better to be sorry than safe. (That’s how the saying goes, isn’t it? I’m all confused these days.)

 

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Véronique adds: Well, really, what the judgment says is that one cannot go on a “fishing expedition” with a drug-sniffing dog in a public space. You must have grounds to believe that you will find drugs in the said place before bringing in the puppy.

My question: Isn’t being in a high school reason enough?

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Rebecca adds: Look, the reality is that minors don’t have the same rights as adults. This by no means gives schools, police or parents the right to abuse them, but it’s just silly to adduce from the use of drug-sniffing dogs in schools some sort of general collapse of civil liberties. Minors need parental permission to join the military, get married, and in some cases work – it would be an appalling breach of human rights if adults needed permission from a third party to do any of these, but most of us think it’s common sense that kids need parental guidance on some of these matters. Giving autonomous adults arbitrary restrictions on their freedom, religious worship and clothing would be fundamentally wrong and also illegal, and yet apart from some of the nuttier (and usually childless) left, nobody objects to parents giving their kids curfews, raising them in their own religion, and making an effort (often futile) to stop them from dressing like trollops or street urchins.

Of course, minors also have rights that other people don’t have, largely to do with the obligations of others (their parents, and when they fail spectacularly, the state) to provide them with food, shelter, education and basic security. The relationship between parent and child, or between someone acting in loco parentis and a child, is not a perfect parallel for the relationship between state and citizen, and it shouldn’t be.

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Tanya adds:

Again, though, are we then to ban drug-sniffing dogs in airports? Do we need any grounds to do so? Apparently not, says this article in today’s Gazette:

 

So may I ask what in the world the difference is?

Changed

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There’s a new book out, Changed, authored by the same woman who put together the web site Abortion changes you. I’ve heard great things about her.

Now I decided recently I don’t buy the statistic, widely cited, that one in three women in the United States will have an abortion by the age 45 (Why? That’s the subject of another post, and also, to be fair, some substantive research. I stand to be corrected but I have good reason to believe that number is inflated).

But no matter, whether one in three, or one in X, we still ought to understand that we are indeed living, walking and working with women who have had abortions and that an abortion will fundamentally change you: The woman who has one, the boyfriend, the husband, the children. All of us.

Abortion is never a private matter.   

They don’t mince words in New York either…

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A statement from Edward Cardinal Egan:

The Catholic Church clearly teaches that abortion is a grave offense against the will of God. Throughout my years as Archbishop of New York, I have repeated this teaching in sermons, articles, addresses, and interviews without hesitation or compromise of any kind. Thus it was that I had an understanding with Mr. Rudolph Giuliani, when I became Archbishop of New York and he was serving as Mayor of New York, that he was not to receive the Eucharist because of his well-known support of abortion. I deeply regret that Mr. Giuliani received the Eucharist during the Papal visit here in New York, and I will be seeking a meeting with him to insist that he abide by our understanding.

[h/t The Corner]

 

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Tanya adds: I’m not Catholic, but I think I can shed some light on this.

“For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself” – 1 Corinthians 11:29

In other words, the Catholic Church is saying to Giuliani: “You’re Catholic, and you know better. So act like it, or you’re gonna get it, and not from me.”

It’s a spiritual “just wait ’til your father gets home.” Correct me if I’m wrong.

Adoption of older children

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[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgL0ojyQ7qI]

I gather pro-lifers are often accused of touting adoption as “the loving option” without showing that love to older kids who need homes. I have yet to investigate whether this accusation is true or false. But the YouTube clip above, from ListenUp TV shows an example of parents who thought differently. Inspiring.

 

She dislikes stupid people

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In the privacy of my own thoughts, I’ve found similar sentiments. (Heavens to Betsy, I’ve never actually said any of this out loud!) Read one woman’s perfect rant regarding Vicki Saporta’s article.

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Brigitte adds: Blimey, she don’t mince words, eh? Some points are a bit hysterical and perhaps less thoroughly informed than she believes, but hey. I’m usually on the side of logic and common sense, however clumsily expressed. One thing I like is her reason for not being totally anti-abortion: Because back in the day, when she had pregnancy scares, she considered it as a way out of a potential tight spot.

Back in the day, had I found myself pregnant, I might have considered it, too. Or maybe not. I just don’t know. I never had to face that terrible “choice” because I was lucky, not because I was good. I’m awfully glad to have been lucky, because now I realize how much I would regret having had an abortion. That realization is what makes me try to change this ridiculous pro-abortion culture in which we live.

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Andrea enjoyed that rant: I am of the uptight variety who thinks that if you can’t express yourself without using expletives, you probably shouldn’t express yourself. But I thoroughly enjoyed that rant, and laughed out loud in many places. Especially this:

WTF? What is based on “a significant amount of legal research”? Her assumption that Bill C-484 will lead to abuse of women’s rights? What is she, psychic?

Vicki Saporta Psychic Services: Deciding just when and how much you need to think. Just one of the many services she offers, thinking is her top priority. So you can put your feet up, and agree.   

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Tanya, excited: Oh! Are we pointing out favorite passages? Mine is definitely:

Hello?? Is there ANYONE in the world that doesn’t support a woman’s right to carry a pregnancy to term?This is a non-point. This is the stupidest thing she says. Before I go on, I just want to state, with complete clarity, that I fully support Saporta’s right to have two arms and two legs. Look how wonderful and liberal I am

 

Weird, what children do to you…

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It’s hard to imagine Madonna as a Mommy (hey, I remember Truth or Dare). But look! Having kids seems to have tamed the old Material Girl… A bit.

Madonna has a surprisingly tough take on motherhood – she does not let her kids watch television or eat sweets.

“Children need limits, otherwise they go off the rails,” she told German magazine KulturSpiegel.

Ignoring television is also an authentic punk-rock attitude, she explained.

At 49, Madonna still considered herself a rebel and said she wanted to pass on that attitude to her children.  

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Andrea adds: That’s nice. But still, I’m guessing it might be hard for Madonna to limit her kids on some things. Take their spending, for example; we are, after all, living in a material world. And she is a material girl. She is THE material girl, in fact.

The difference forty years makes?

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Is this the difference in cultural mores that forty years can make? Through the normalization of taking a life? Then…

Josephine Woodgate was 25 when she had one of the UK’s earliest legal abortions. Today, 40 years after women were given the legal right to abortion, she remains haunted by the choice she made … “Over the years, the regret I felt has never waned. Even now, I still catch myself wondering about the child I might have had, if only I had been given more information at the time…”

…and now…

Kat Stark, 24, a union administrator from Warwick, has no regrets about having an abortion. She was 19 when she became pregnant while at university. “When I found out I was pregnant I didn’t have any money or a partner. I knew there was no way I could have a baby,” she said.

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