New Brunswick’s Morgentaler Clinic will close in July. I really, really hope the government doesn’t bail them out. New Brunswick is Canada’s only province that doesn’t fund abortions with tax dollars.

A clinic closing means there wasn’t enough demand to keep it open.  Not enough demand means women chose something else. And this is the quintessential conundrum for those who support access to abortion. Will they admit that it is a beautiful thing when women choose something other than abortion? Will they say it is a better choice? Not all choices are created equal.

I really shouldn’t read the news before going to bed. But here it is:

During routine procedures at 10:00 AM Eastern time, some Members of Parliament voted “nay” when MP Woodworth asked for unanimous consent.

Under Parliamentary rules Woodworth could not, without unanimous consent, bring this Motion to a vote and his only option was to seek unanimous consent from all Members.

There are no other Parliamentary options for Motion 476. “This marks a dark and dangerous day for Canada,” Woodworth said. “Members of Parliament who voted against this motion have refused to endorse the essential principle of democratic governance which requires legal recognition of the equal worth and dignity of every member of the human family.”

Lea Singh, a friend here in Ottawa and a blogger, has a new-ish blog and an interesting “About us” page–about us even though she is only one person.

I relate to the idea of having many identities over the life course. (Sometimes me today doesn’t understand me of yesterday terribly well.) I also relate to her thought that she’ll never fit in anywhere. I can only conclude that this is more normal than we think, because this earth is not our final home.)

You can bookmark her, here.

I still really want to see this movie get made. Give a buck, give a million (if you have a million to give, we should talk, because I have great pro-life ideas that I haven’t been able to implement for lack of money… I digress).

If you are angry about the summary dismissal of Mozilla CEO and what that says about the intolerance of our age, then you could divert your anger into the making of a pro-life movie. (Perhaps that doesn’t make much sense. HOWEVER, don’t let my incoherence stop you from giving to the film.)

Here’s an article from USA Today about the making of the Kermit Gosnell movie:

Last week brought a chilling reminder of how mercilessly some liberals will work to silence and marginalize people who hold views with which they disagree.

Even for those of us who support same-sex marriage, the virtual manhunt of Mozilla chief Brendan Eich was scary to watch. His heresy was a private donation in support of an anti-gay marriage initiative six years ago. Mob rule enforcing groupthink is as illiberal as it gets, and yet it was liberals demanding uniformity of thought — or else.

Another incident of muzzling those without the proper worldview received less attention. Kickstarter, the nation’s biggest crowd-funding site,refused to accept a film about convicted abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell unless descriptions of his crimes were removed.

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What type of movie on late-term abortion do our meddling gatekeepers want? Kickstarter accepted After Tiller, a hagiography of the abortionists who took over when Wichita doctor George Tiller was murdered. The film presumably doesn’t belabor the process of late-term abortion, where babies are often stabbed in the neck with scissors and the contents of their skulls suctioned out. One wouldn’t want to violate Kickstarter’s culture of respect and consideration. Or provide factual information.

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If you believe so, you have an email to send today.

Stephen Woodworth, Member of Parliament for Kitchener Centre today announced that he would be seeking unanimous consent in the House of Commons for Motion 476 on Thursday, April 10th at approximately 10:00 AM during Routine Proceedings in the House of Commons. Motion 476 calls on all Members of Parliament to affirm that every Canadian law must be interpreted in a manner which recognizes the equal worth and dignity of everyone who is in fact a human being.

Under Parliamentary rules Woodworth cannot, without unanimous consent, bring this Motion to a vote so he will seek the unanimous consent of Members of Parliament. During Woodworth’s Member’s Statement on Monday, March 31, 2014 he noted that “If even one Member of this House refuses to consent to this essential principle of democratic governance it will be a dark and dangerous day for Canada.”

Head over to WeNeedaLaw to send an email to your MP.

Remembering Lakisha Wilson:

Wilson’s family is still reeling in shock over her late-term abortion and consequent death at the Preterm Abortion Clinic in Cleveland. Although she reportedly died on the day of her abortion, her body was kept on life support for days, pending the harvesting of her organs.

“They didn’t value her life and her child’s, but they wanted her remains. Horrendous,” King says.

Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, says, “Lakisha had her whole life ahead of her, but she died because our nation still allows abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy.”

Legal and safe?

More from Operation Rescue.

Let me count the ways: It forces women to take an artificial hormone every day. It causes side effects including physical pain and mental problems. It makes us dumb and dumber about the way our own bodies work. It changes incentives so that women and men who aren’t remotely compatible sleep together–causing untold emotional pain and the odd “unwanted” baby, now to be considered an ill-begotten side effect.

I could go on, but I’ll stop with this link from the Globe and Mail, that tells the tale of how Diane 35–a birth control Pill marketed for acne–“possibly” killed ten women.

Because everyone thinks death is a reasonable side effect when attempting to fix acne.

People: if you have been wounded by the effects of the sexual revolution (and I’m getting so old I’m prepared to admit that I have been) it’s time to recognize that these “liberating” things actually aren’t.

Sometimes I entirely and totally fail to see the ways in which I am arrogant. Reading this post was a good opportunity to do an internal check.

About 30 seconds into freshman year, I found the college’s pro-life club and signed up. By my sophomore year, I was the president. I think that this is due more to accidents of circumstance than my administrative ability, but it was a position that I relished and a cause that I cared about deeply. My now-husband and I spent our free time together doing pro-life work, performing praise and worship music for college events, and playing intramural sports. I got good grades, I didn’t have a drink until I was 21, and I served as an officer of various honor societies, clubs and councils.

And then, I got pregnant.

I stared into my future with dread. I imagined myself looking forward to a life of shattered dreams. My wonderful life, my successes, and a promising future were seemingly ruined by one stupid decision. There was never, ever a possibility that we would abort. But the pain and fear of young lives crippled were very, very real. We were cornered, and I was doomed.

The first thing I realized as the fog lifted on those first few weeks was how arrogant I’d been. I had no idea what a cataclysmic event an unplanned pregnancy can be, even under relatively happy circumstances (e.g. a healthy, committed relationship, family support, a college education). I knew that it was often panic which drives mothers and fathers to the terrible “relief” of abortion, but experiencing an unplanned pregnancy showed me how much empathy I’d been lacking and how essential pro-mother programs (like the Pregnant on Campus Initiative) are.

Another thing I’m not terribly great at is simply asking questions. “Why do you believe that?” or “What led you to this position?” being two good ones. Generally, this is because I’m too busy explaining why and how my own views are so important.

The good news is that I have become less insufferable over time, I’m almost positive.

So many people don’t know. Watch this and then donate a small amount or large to make a movie so that people will know. Donate here.

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Mark Steyn writes about them, here:

For me, the silence of the broader culture became as disturbing as the mound of corpses:

Gosnell’s murderous regime in Philadelphia reflects on him. The case’s all but total absence from the public discourse reflects on America.

Phelim McAleer and his missus Ann McElhinney have determined to break the silence. They’re the enterprising Irish couple who made the documentary Not Evil Just Wrong to challenge Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, the film that made Michael Mann’s hockey stick a Hockeywood star and was at the time being rammed down the throats of every schoolkid in the western world. For obvious reasons, this is a subject close to my heart at the moment.

McAleer & McElhinney are now planning a documentary on Gosnell’s abattoir – the first and maybe the last such film, given that James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Michael Moore et al do not seem to be engaged by “Dr” Gosnell and his astonishing corpse count.

DONATE HERE–to make sure this movie gets made. Give a little to keep up momentum, or give a lot so they reach their goal. The choice is yours. (Remember, all of us pro-lifers are also pro-choice, so long as we are not choosing life or death for someone else, no matter how small or “invisible.”)