Foreknown. A new movie coming soon, April 14. Watch a short trailer here.

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Were you wondering what the effects of legal prostitution might be?

Read here, and wonder no more. Learn from the German experience.

Then, after have overcome feelings of wanting to throw yourself off a ledge because it’s so depressing, GO AND TELL THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NOT TO LEGALIZE PROSTITUTION IN CANADA.

If you feel motivated to help more, I know the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada is doing great work on this file. You can call them and ask what they need.

Freedom arguments, (which I am deeply sympathetic to, actually they pretty much drive me) simply don’t hold here, by the way. The women are not free. (By the way, in a philosophical sense, neither are the men, being slaves instead to their lust.) But the women are actually physically coerced, trapped, stuck, on drugs, far from home, isolated. In the words of the cads running these German mega-brothels, this is not for their children, oh no, no, no:

Back in 2002, the liberal left imagined a sex industry in which responsible managers would push out exploitative pimps. Empowered prostitutes would work in safety and the money from this hitherto black market would go into pension pots and the German treasury. Well, they got their taxes.

Paradise’s Jürgen Rudloff appeared in a documentary about prostitution in Germany last summer. In one scene he’s sitting in his spacious kitchen dressed in an open-necked white shirt and linen jacket, surrounded by his four shiny-haired, privately-educated children.

Would he be happy for either of his two daughters to work at Paradise, the interviewer asks. Rudloff turns puce. “Unthinkable, unthinkable,” he says. “The question alone is brutal. I don’t mean to offend the prostitutes but I try to raise my children so that they have professional opportunities. Most prostitutes don’t have those options. That’s why they’re doing that job.He pauses and looks away.

“Unimaginable, he repeats. “I don’t even want to think about it.”

You have until Monday to fill out the government online questionnaire. I suggested some answers here. It doesn’t take long. Rest assured those who believe prostitution is standard work, like any other job, will take the time to fill out the form. Don’t let their voices outnumber ours.

This link lists a bunch. I was once into Ben Folds and knew the song Brick well. It’s a sad song, no doubt about that, but what makes me more sad is that we continue to allow, even tacitly encourage, people to make this same mistake, over and over, as if we couldn’t learn from others who had gone before.

As weeks went by
It showed that she was not fine
They told me son it’s time to tell the truth
She broke down and I broke down
‘Cause I was tired of lying
Driving back to her apartment
For the moment we’re alone
She’s alone
I’m alone
Now I know it

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I’m not sure the word “lover” really works in English. And if your name is Juan Carlos, I’m not sure you should follow that up with, “Yes, I have a lover.”

Maybe I’m too immature for this effort to promote long term over short term, commitment over lust, etc. I’m all on side with those values, just the video didn’t work for me.

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I’m always surprised when I come across this type of language in Canadian court decisions.

20        T.G. requested financial compensation in her victim impact statement, which was entered as an exhibit during the Crown’s submissions. She had no child support from D.G. and justifiably felt she was owed some compensation. In response to this, D.G. offered to make some financial reparation. He said, through his counsel, that he would be able to pay $500 within 90 days. The sentencing judge concluded that this offer demonstrated limited insight into his offence and lessened the remorse D.G. expressed. He said:

 [24] … Through his counsel, [D.G.] offered to pay reparations, in the amount of $500, to his victim. That offer exacerbates my concern that [D.G.] has not yet grasped the enormity of his offence or its impact upon his victim. To state the matter bluntly, he repeatedly raped an innocent and helpless child over a period of years, impregnated her three times, stood by while she underwent two abortions (having in mind the emotional trauma suffered by any woman who undergoes an abortion for any reason), abandoned her and left her penniless to raise their son. He regards $500 as appropriate reparation for that conduct. I appreciate that [D.G.] is a man of limited means, but such an offer can only be seen as an expression of contempt for his victim.

Seems this one BC judge recognized that there’s often an emotional toll associated with having an abortion.

Source: R. v. G. (D.),2014 CarswellBC 531, 2014 BCCA 84

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Andrea adds: For your “surprising passage in tragic case” files… I almost blogged about this story when it came out last week, but didn’t. But I will now:

The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously upheld the sexual assault conviction of a Nova Scotia man who tried to trick his girlfriend into becoming pregnant by poking holes in her condoms.

Craig Jaret Hutchinson was sentenced to 18 month in jail in December 2011 after he pierced his girlfriend’s condoms with a pin in 2006 so she would get pregnant and not break up with him.

The Halifax-area woman became pregnant and had an abortion, but later suffered an infection of her uterus that required treatment with antibiotics.

Leaving aside all other possible commentary on the horrible nature of this “relationship,” this appears to be the one moment when the media reports on negative physical health effects after abortion.

Bring back play. Admirable campaign, to get kids outdoors and off computers. I went for a Sunday afternoon jog yesterday in a residential neighbourhood and saw… one child. The whole time. She was by herself at the end of her driveway. I said hi.

Anyhoo. Yes, bring back play. But then, also bring back kids. Just trying to re-popularize this idea of children, is all.

At CPAC last week, Brian Lilley interviewed Live Action President Lila Rose. Rose talks about the gruesome nature of late-term abortions, the women who die from them, and how pro-choice activists argue for “safe” abortions but fight every single proposed bill or measure that would raise the standard of care at abortion clinics.

I do think a number of people who hold themselves out as pro-choice (to whatever extent) would support measures that would raise the standard of care at abortions clinics. But I think they get shouted down or shouted out by the pro-choice activists who see any measure that would better protect women having abortions as an attack on “women’s rights” – even if those measures protected women from harm, or death.

Jonathon Van Maren with important information and a good talk for men about abortion.