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“We don’t need another Morgentaler”

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Slaw is a Canadian legal commentary blog. It’s not pro-life. But here’s a perspective that doesn’t line up far from my own…For a wide variety of reasons, I hate that assisted suicide has been decriminalized in Canada, but we cannot allow unregulated assisted suicide.

If the current government does nothing, and it’s impossible to see how they could broach such a complicated and sensitive subject as physician-assisted suicide in such a short period of time, then we will be left in a situation where these provisions under the Code are invalid and there is no comparable law to replace it. This would be a similar situation as abortion following R. v. Morgentaler 27 years ago, where no law has followed the Court’s decision.

Unlike abortion though, where most Canadians are content to live in a country where we turn a blind eye to the subject and allow it to continue based on individual preference, there are far more compelling interests at stake here.

The implication of inaction over the Carter decision would be to allow all consensual killing and assisted suicide in Canada, whether there was physician involvement or not, or any oversight for that matter. The vulnerabilities of individuals at the end of life, and potential for a rise in elder abuse, necessitates that some for of legislative reform is undertaken.

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Alberta minors could request assisted suicide

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According to the draft policy by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, minors could request physician assisted suicide:

The old document restricted consent to competent adult patients, but that has been amended to include mature minors. The document states, “legal precedent recognizes mature minors as adults in their ability to consent; the college recommends physicians take a careful and conservative approach to mature minors.”

CPSA Registrar Dr. Trevor Theman said there’s no strict age limit on the requirement for consent, suggesting medical procedures aren’t typically based on age.

“It’s somebody who would not yet be of adult age, who is fully capable of understanding the options and the choices that are available–and the consequences of each–and is understood to have the capacity to make that decision,” he said.

 

Slippery slope? What slippery slope?

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A note from the past

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The source needs to remain anonymous, but someone just emailed me this:

Just read a letter from a doctor to the Therapeutic Abortion Committee of a hospital from 1979 where the family doctor requested approval for a therapeutic abortion. The reason it was “recommended” was that the father was a married man who had been living apart from his wife but who had since gone back to her. Then, I read the description of the procedure which occurred at 17 weeks gestation. Horrific. But it demonstrated that abortions really were granted for just about any reason at all.”

This lends credence to the decidedly anti-feminist proposition that abortion serves to conceal a man’s indiscretions. The woman lives with the consequences regardless.

 

Tune in to Veronique’s YouTube channel

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Veronique Bergeron is one of my favourite people in all the land. She has a large family. She used to blog with us at PWPL. People were sad when she stopped. Good news: Now she has her own blog about her large family. She has a YouTube channel; it’s new! She also has a sense of humour, which isn’t new. Miraculously, even with nine children, she has kept that around. I look up to Ms. Bergeron and her whole clan. There’s no white picket fence around her property, she keeps it real. Tune in.

This one is interesting because I swear to you: Having given speeches to audiences in the hundreds, having testified before hostile committees, having talked to biased journalists about being pro-life, one of the most stressful things I’ve ever done was get both my nieces out the door for a walk on a fine summer day when I was the only adult. There were shoes on the wrong feet, there were water bottles and changes of clothes stuffed into the back of the stroller, there was general mayhem, there was a stressed out Auntie. It is no great surprise to me that this is one of Veronique’s first videos, as a result.

[youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHaqTxjO4Bw]

 

Planned Parenthood shouldn’t have celebrated that episode of Scandal

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I saw a number of pro-lifers posting about the latest Scandal episode on Facebook. It’s one of television’s top shows. In last week’s episode, the main character apparently undergoes ‘the most realistic’ abortion ever shown during prime time.

I’ve watched Scandal. But I didn’t watch last week’s episode as I caught a story about it on LifeSiteNews, and I won’t be watching it. I’m four and a half months pregnant, and watching an abortion scene (and the scenes that follow) while Ave Maria, Silent Night and Hallelujah are played in the background would bring me to hysterics. Abortion is horrific. Abortion celebrated is a horror that I have difficulty imagining.

I just came across an article that explains why perhaps Planned Parenthood should stop celebrating this episode:

Because ultimately, I bet most viewers won’t remember the filibustering scenes or the political chatter about Planned Parenthood.

Instead, they’ll remember the episode’s most emotional moment: Olivia getting an abortion, all by herself, holiday music overheard, her dad’s voice denouncing family as a “burden.”

That’s not a moment any woman wants. That’s not a moment any man should want to happen.

I don’t know what story Rhimes, who serves on the board of directors of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, and the “Scandal” writers set out to tell. But the one they ultimately told is the true one: Abortion is a tragedy—not just for the unborn children whose lives are lost, but also for the women who have abortions.

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Read the rest here. Even with the best writers, it’s impossible to portray abortion as something great and wonderful – because women feeling like they need to choose abortion and end the lives of their children just isn’t.

Shopping for that perfect Christmas gift

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Then check out these beautiful pendants:

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I just received one as a gift, and I have already bought one for a co-worker. They start at $45 and feature a mother caressing her womb on one side and an unborn child on the other. A portion of the proceeds go to pro-life charities. They’re Canadian and a wonderful pro-life gift to give and receive at Christmas.

Selective causes

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Very interesting to me how otherwise compassionate people, like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, can advocate for child rights in some circumstances, but not in others. Certainly, once you establish that human beings are human beings regardless of where they are located or their size, then this becomes a hollow statement indeed.

Each child deserves to be raised in a world free of discrimination, violence, and exploitation, and each one deserves to grow up with proper nutrition and health care, a good education, and safe communities.

 

Hmmm. A world free of violence and discrimination–for those that make it.

Abortion as birth control–that’s how Planned Parenthood exec director uses it

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It remains hotly contested to say that abortion is backup birth control. I think it is obvious that abortion is used that way. With few exceptions, the personal stories of abortion women have shared with me were essentially abortion as a backup to failed birth control stories.

And so it is, from Cecile Richards herself:

It was a decision my husband and I made. It was a personal decision. And we have three children that we adore and that are the center of my life. And we decided that was as big as our family needed to be. That was really the story. It wasn’t anything more dramatic than that.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

One more comment: Pregnancy and child bearing–they sound like a choice you plan out until they aren’t. The women who know this most profoundly are the women experiencing infertility, for whatever reason. They’ve been told they can have a child at the time of their choosing. When that doesn’t pan out, they hit the non-choiceness of it all hard.

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Cecile Richards: “We have three children… That was as big as our family needed to be.

 

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