I’m aware that the women of PWPL have been slamming feminists just a little, teeny tiny bit of late. As in, where are they when women die from complications of the morning after pill, etc. etc. A moratorium, ladies! For we have guests who are feminist and reasonable. By that I mean they are feminist and pro-life. Behold.

I have (happily) received an email from someone reaching out from Feminists Choosing Life in New York State. She wondered where “ya’ll” are located, which made me think perhaps she is from the deep south. We don’t really use that phrasing round these parts. However, New York State it is, our neighbours (not neighbors) to the immediate south.

(In reply, I’d say we are located from sea to shining sea in BC, AB, ON, QC and Nova Scotia.)

Being pro-life really is the only reasonable pro-woman perspective so I’m happy to find this, yet another feminists for life type group.

Here are some of their smiling crew. Keep up the good work, Feminists Choosing Life of New York State!

I appreciate knowing my ABCs. Hooked on phonics, that’s me! However, this is not a post about reading.

One of the most provocative things you can mention in the realm of physical side effects after abortion is that there might be a link to breast cancer. [Ed note: Hence why this is not a post about reading, but rather ABC for Abortion Breast Cancer link.] I personally think there is one but have not been brave enough to highlight it publicly to date.

That said, two reasons compel me to post this. One is that the book Complications is out (buy one! Fun Christmas time reading for the whole family!) and it has a pretty solid chapter dedicated to this. And secondly, this article links to a study that once again finds a link to breast cancer:

The research was conducted by Yubei Huang et al. from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Tianjin Medical University Cancer Hospital.The researchers say they were initially puzzled by their findings, stating that Chinese women “historically” have had lower rates of breast cancer compared to women from western countries such as the US.

They found, however, that incidences of breast cancer in China increased at an “alarming rate” over the past two decades, corresponding with the rise of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy.

I believe those who fail to study this are behind the times. A little bit like tobacco companies proclaiming their product is not addictive. Finding out what causes cancer is all so confusing and irrelevant and unscientific… until it’s not.

This is really horrifying stuff.  Women from an annual pro-abortion, pro-feminist conference called the National Women`s Encounter (a city sponsored event) go wild in Buenos Aires, covering the city in pro-abortion graffiti and attempting to attack the Catholic Cathedral.  It was valiantly protected by a human wall of young men, who received the brunt of violence and sexual harassment from the mob of topless women.  Considering my most recent post, these men were gentlemen, in the best sense of the word.

The video is extremely disturbing and it is a true indictment of modern feminist ideology.  This kind of radical thinking turns nice girls into barbarians.

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Faye adds: I’m stunned speechless.

The police reportedly told the media they were unable to intervene because “they are women.”

One of the things I have marveled at of late, when walking through my neighborhood, are the young shady-looking men slouching around, with hoodies, and gangster pants that reveal various brands of underwear.  I live in a normal suburb, with nice houses and people who put up their Christmas lights each year, and offer Halloween candy to youngsters.  So I am often perplexed to see these characters slinking around and going to and from these quaint, and fairly expensive homes.

What has happened to our young men?  This article tries to address the issue of true male comradery and it’s absence in our culture. The video depicts friendship between men that is reminiscent of days gone by.

And most men desire this friendship—this tender, warm, (dare we say it?) loving friendship—but that desire receives no affirmation in our culture.  Men’s desires are circumscribed within a perverse Venn diagram, with one circle labeled “sex,” the other “mammon.”  Such friendship seems as foreign as the virgin Irish countryside, unattainable in the normal course of life in the 21^st century.

The video is a bit overly nostalgic, but it has a nice twist at the end, and is excellent advertising for Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey.  And the Parting Glass is one of my favorites.  In fact, I used to sing it with some of my brother’s school mates, who had the good fortune to experience this comradery.

That is the title of the Barbara Seaman’s book about the Pill. (The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women). When testing it, women died but no matter! They carried on. How these deaths translated into female empowerment continues to evade me.

If this letter writer is correct, something similar happened with RU-486. But legalize away, Canada! What’s a couple of dead women?

I think it was Natalie who was asking earlier where are the feminists when you need them? Indeed.

CLC Youth are inviting people to send a Christmas card to pro-life heroine Mary Wagner as she spends her holidays behind bars for offering pro-life counseling to women in abortion clinic waiting rooms.

This is a simple action you can do to touch someone’s life and offer them hope and love during this Christmas season.

You can go here for more information including her address and instructions when sending a card that complies with prison guidelines.

Nice to see this perspective on euthanasia in the news by Johanne Brownrigg:

To those in the pro-life movement, euthanasia represents the culture attempting to devour itself. I think the root of this is our growing preoccupation with our selves. Margaret Somerville, a renowned McGill University professor and ethicist calls it “radical individualism.” It is a belief and behaviour in which individual autonomy almost always trumps the well-being of society. It shows in the popular support for Quebec’s Bill 52 and the right to suicide in general.

But as we have found, popular support is not as solid as the media claim.  The polling on this issue is not reliable, especially polls that ask simplistic questions – like this poll that has been featured in the National Post of late. To simply ask the question, ‘are you in favour of assisted suicide?’ assumes that the respondent knows what assisted suicide is, and that it differs from both active and passive euthanasia.

The issue of euthanasia is complex, to say the least.  There are a myriad of misunderstandings that surround it.  For instance, many people are unfamiliar with the rights of refusal that already exist, that patients can refuse any medical treatment, especially those that would prolong their lives unnecessarily.

They are also often unaware of the disempowering effect that the practice will have on patients. Doctors with the legal sanction to prescribe lethal medications, can and will do so without patient knowledge and consent, when it is seen, by law, as a medical practice employed for the patient’s “own good.”  In other words, people with a license to kill will use it.

I am compelled to give this shameless plug for the annual polling done by Environics (and commissioned by LifeCanada) that shows that when people are educated about the possible harms of euthanasia, support for it goes way down.

Unilever is not going to save the world, as they seem to be suggesting in this clever advertising campaign.

But I do like the premise behind their “film” entitled “Why bring a child into the world?”  It’s one of hope in humanity, in the ingenuity of man, and the possibilities that come with every new human life.  And of course it’s about everybody’s favorite cause, the environment.

That said, I never buy their products if I can help it.

Picking up on Natalie’s last post regarding informed consent when it comes to RU-486, here’s the latest from our Supreme Court on that legal concept:

Ediger thus reinforces an obligation of the medical community to practise within such standards of care that are responsive to the risks that treatments carry and for which informed consent is sought. It reinforces a common-sense and intuitive notion that a patient needs to be advised not only on the risks of a proposed procedure, but also on the consequences if such risks were to materialize…

The court concluded that simply conveying the statistical probability of the risk to the patient is not in itself sufficient to meet the standard of care with respect to disclosure — the patient must be advised of not only the risk, but also of the consequences if the risk is to materialize.

Seems like a high standard to me. Think it will be met it if RU-486 is permitted in Canada?

Last year, Canadian Physicians for Life released a compelling statement declaring that abortions are not medically necessary procedures and that they should be defunded. The statement is now available online. Here are a few excerpts. Go read the document and bookmark the page. It’s a great resource.

In these times of strained health care resources, it is more imperative now than ever that government be streamlining spending in the health care sector. A necessary step in doing this is to identify those services which are not medically necessary and delist them. It is our opinion that abortion is never medically necessary and should be defunded provincially…

There are infrequent cases in which pregnancy can place the physical health of a woman in jeopardy. Although induced abortion is often heralded as the sole treatment for these conditions, invariably it is not the only option. Rather, treatment of the underlying condition should be the course of action, and although it may result in the loss of the pregnancy, this situation is far different from an induced abortion which targets destruction of the fetus as its end. So even in these difficult situations, abortion should not be considered as a medical necessity, given that other treatments exist which also preserve the physical well-being of the mother….

When it comes to instances of fetal abnormalities detected during pregnancy, an important comment needs to be made: In any pregnancy, there are two patients. One being the woman, and one being the fetus that she is carrying. This principle should be self evident to any physician involved in prenatal care. The practice of terminating pregnancy based on the characteristics of the fetus is tantamount to eugenics and should no longer be accepted.