Very cool. Go Sun News.

With deaths linked to certain forms of contraception, NFP is something we should be talking about. Very pro-woman and very empowering.

Watch the clip here. For more information on NFP, visit 1Flesh.org.

On this excellent op-ed that ran in the National Post.

As most of you know, Justin Trudeau stated last week that going forward, all Liberal MPs are expected to be pro-choice.

Two points I want to highlight from Mr. Wappel’s piece:

In 1990, I ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, again espousing, amongst other things, my belief that we should work to respect life, from conception to natural death. The issue of abortion was debated amongst the candidates at various Liberal forums. All candidates were allowed to address the convention, and the nation, since it was being covered by the press. There was no censorship of what a candidate could say or think or address the convention about. The Liberal Party survived this now apparently heretical approach, and went on to win a crushing victory in the 1993 election.

Please note that abortion was debated and the sky did not fall. Nor did the Liberal Party self-destruct.

I appreciate the historical perspective he’s bringing to this debate. Or media mess. Or however you want to characterize the firestorm Mr. Trudeau started. There I go characterizing…

Such a unilateral decree is an affront to the historical principles of liberalism. It amounts to saying, if we cannot stop people from talking about something we don’t want to talk about, then let us just ban them from the room and the topic will magically disappear. This is naïve at best and dictatorial at worst. It is to be decried as unprincipled, undemocratic, unappreciative, and intellectually bankrupt. Surely I am not the only Liberal who cannot support such an edict, such a leader, such an abandonment of democratic principles of fairness, openness, free speech and healthy public policy debate.

There should be nothing scary about open debate. Let the voters decide what is important to them. Seems like the democratic thing to do.

Thanks Mr. Wappel.

I just copied this off Hansard. Word for word:

Question No. 340–

Mr. Sean Casey:

With regard to the purchase of cosmetics by Ministers’ offices, Ministers of State and Parliamentary Secretaries, since December 13, 2011: (a) how much money has each Minister’s office, Minister of State and Parliamentary Secretary spent on (i) cosmetics, (ii) hair products, (iii) beauty supplies; (b) what were the dates of each purchase; and (c) what were the brands and names of the individual products purchased?

So we can’t debate human dignity or when human life begins, but we will discuss, in our great chamber, cosmetic brands.

(Look, I don’t want my tax dollars going towards mascara either, but I’m just saying….)

Since all too often really radical pro-choicers will say you have to be pro-choice to be a feminist, I thought I’d take note of some clearly self-sufficient, independent minded women engaging in comments made by Justin Trudeau in a not strictly pro-choice way: Barbara Kay, Margaret Wente and Margaret Somerville.

Not all of those three would call themselves pro-life. Not all would call themselves feminist. But the point remains: Women don’t all think alike. For my “setting the bar low” standards, I’d be very, very happy if radical pro-choicers could stop implying that all women do.

Belgian euthanasia advocate chooses Auschwitz as site for a seminar. No really.

Come on. This is awesome. I do not know who Luis Dizon is, but this is his way of saying #No2Niki:

PS: For International Readers (welcome) Niki is Niki Ashton, Canadian federal Member of Parliament and Opposition Critic for Status of Women, proposing a motion that would declare abortion as a human right on Parliament Hill here. A motion is not a bill, so there’s no teeth–but it’s a good time to debate the issue.

From Alissa Golob over at Campaign Life:

Basically what we are trying to do is ask people across the country to video tape themselves with their phones or webcams asking their MP to vote against Motion 510 (Niki Ashton’s motion) and tweet the video at their MP using the hashtag #No2Niki.

When Rona Ambrose voted in favour of Motion 312, we used this same tactic for women across the country- and videos came pouring in every day. It was hard for me to keep track. Because of the success of that campaign, I thought this would be an excellent way to send a loud and clear message to MPs. Chain e-mails that say the same thing with different people’s signatures at the bottom doesn’t seem to have the same affect- plus most MPs handle their own twitter accounts.

The Facebook event can be found here.

If you want to add your voice to the #No2Niki campaign–then this is your opportunity.

I like this video from ARPA Canada of the March for Life 2014. It shows a) how normal people are b) the wide age and gender range and c) no fixation on the counter-protest. It’s a little bit boring, even, and that’s a good thing. We don’t need to be scared of pro-lifers, folks.

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Some Christian movies I’ve seen have been pretty terrible. Bad acting and contrived scenes.

That said, sounds like critics just can’t get their head around Moms Night Out for their own contrived reasons.

I haven’t gone to the movies in a long time, but maybe I will make it out to see this one and decide whether it’s “anti-feminist” for myself.

Me and Brian Lilley. Enjoy.