The Interim, Canada’s pro-life newspaper, is holding their 25th anniversary dinner a week today on Thursday, April 10. Information about the evening here, and if you call their office I’m sure they’d be happy to set you up with tickets. I’ll be speaking on the topic of abortion and the media.
Fraser Institute to host fan of universal medicare
No really. It’s odd that a group so passionately opposed to universal health care would host someone who openly says he is in favour of it. Says Richard Dawkins:
As I have often said before, as a scientist I am a passionate Darwinian. But as a citizen and a human being, I want to construct a society which is about as un-Darwinian as we can make it. I approve of looking after the poor (very un-Darwinian). I approve of universal medical care (very un-Darwinian).
I’m sure The Fraser Institute is hosting him so they can hand over a copy of Waiting your Turn in person. Right?
Cross-posted to The Shotgun
Of lab rats, guinea pigs, mice and women
My letter in the Post today can be read here.
This might be worse than a link to a pro-lifer…
…Try a link to Ted Turner:
If steps aren’t taken to stem global warming “we’ll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow,” Turner said during a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose that aired Tuesday. “Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals,” said Turner, 69.
Well finally, a better way–more efficient, really–to decrease that surplus population and save the planet.
For crying out loud
Because what could possibly be worse than an association with that pro-life movement…
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Brigitte adds:
Students of virginity
Promiscuity sans consequence is, at its core, a masculine concept. Women require certain measures, such as a regular dose of hormones (AKA: the pill, the patch, the shot, etc…) and when those fail, they claim abortion is a woman’s ultimate right. In other words, modern feminism is all about being more like men. There’s a certain disdain for the reproductive system of a woman, until she’s good and ready to “activate” it. Being a woman is all too inconvenient unless we have access to products and services that keep our ovaries and uterus in check.
Enter Janie Fredell, advocate of premarital abstinence and president of Harvard’s “True Love Revolution.”
If men are commonly more promiscuous than women, it is only because the culture allows it, she said. Fredell was here to turn society around. “It’s extremely countercultural,” she said, for a woman to assert control over her own body. It is, in fact, a feminist notion. Conventional feminism, she explained, teaches that control of your body means the freedom to have sex without consequences — sex like a man. “I am an unconventional feminist,” Fredell said, in the sense that she asserts control by choosing not to have sex — by telling men, no, absolutely not.
Hmm… Is it possible, if women are less willing to “give the milk away for free”, that men will be more likely to practice abstinence, too? If for no other reason, the math makes me think so.
OK, that’s scary
Call me naive, but I didn’t know about this problem of girls vanishing from their British homes.
A new study has found that the practice of forced marriage among immigrants in Britain is much more common than previously assumed. Thousands of young girls — and boys — have gone missing, many of whom might have been abducted by their own parents.
Any minute now we’ll hear from feminists denouncing such practices, right?
[h/t Mark Steyn]
An intolerant update
Remember that story about Planned Parenthood representatives being caught accepting money to abort black babies? Here’s more, via Michelle Malkin:
I’ve written several times before about Lila Rose’s pioneering undercover journalism. If left-wing reporters are going to use their positions to engineer bigotry stings, then there’s most certainly room for independent journalists to expose racism where the Left doesn’t want to go. In February, Rose released undercover tapes of her discussion with an Idaho Planned Parenthood official eager to accept money from a racist donor who supported aborting black babies. Now, Rose is back with new video of PP clinic officials in New Mexico and Oklahoma willing to take money from a blatantly racist donor. One PP staffer openly admits that “for whatever reason, we’ll accept the money.”
Sympathy for eugenics isn’t just an aberrent occurrence. It’s embedded in the historical DNA of Planned Parenthood. Margaret Sanger would be so proud.
Watch:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwif0VMW3c4]
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Andrea adds: The average Canadian may not be aware that Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood is also author of Birth Control and Racial Betterment. Sure, she lived in an era when eugenic science was popular, but she maintained her racist zeal long after it went out of style, and even spoke at a Ku Klux Klan rally. These taped admissions of racism in Planned Parenthood offices would be horrifying without that history. With it–makes you wonder whether eugenic pruning of whoever they consider the underclass isn’t still on their books as official policy.
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Tanya adds: This article mentions some early initiatives taken by Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood: http://www.lifenews.com/nat3780.html
We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
The article is called “Planned Parenthood Founder Sanger Would Love Pro-Abortion Barack Obama.”
Meanwhile, in Never-Never Land
National Abortion Federation is in Never-Never Land. As in, we would never tell you anything bad about abortion.
University of Calgary students tell it like it is
The University of Calgary pro-life club president Matthew Wilson and treasurer Leah Hallman made this statement to media after their own university censored their display on campus. Wish I had their courage when I was a student. (I didn’t.)
We are here today because abortion is here. If abortion was already recognized as what it is, the killing of an unborn human being, there would be no need for ‘notices to vacate,’ or suppression of constitutional freedoms or scare and bully tactics used by the university on its own students. In their ‘notice to vacate,’ which was handed to members of the Campus Pro-Life yesterday at 3:30pm, the University clearly stated that it did not want pro-life activities to be done on campus. In stating that ‘students registered at the University of Calgary may remain on campus for their classes and other regular activities not connected to Campus Pro-Life’ the university proved that it is not a matter of graphic signs, security risks, or any other rhetoric that they have employed in the past.
The issue simply boils down to the fact that they do not want our message on campus, period. It is worth pointing out that even in Russia, where human freedoms are still beginning to make their way back into everyday life, [pro-lifers] experienced no problems in erecting the same display that the University of Calgary has found so unacceptable.
We are not radicals or extremists, unless trying to promote dialogue on an important, controversial issue can be misconstrued as such. We are simply students who want to express our beliefs that human life has dignity from the very first moments of fertilization. Never in our history have we been violent, demeaning, or rude. Rather, we have always tried to use our convictions as students in a marketplace of ideas to promote the philosophical and scientific position that the unborn are worthy of life. We do not know how the university will react to our actions today. We hope that we will be allowed to display our exhibition as we have done for the last several years and that the University will recognize our right to be there, regardless of whether they like our message or not. We are not seeking trouble. We are seeking to be a voice for those who have none; yet, even our voices are being stifled by those who do not believe, in the words of Voltaire, though ‘I disagree with what you say…I will fight to the death for your right to say it.’
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