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Fifty Shades of Grey: A feminist tale

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I went to the pharmacy yesterday to pick up a few things up and Fifty Shades of Grey was sitting on the shelves behind the cash.

At least it was behind the cash.

People are going to buy the DVD, forget it, and leave it lying around in a pile with their other DVDs. Some children and tweens are going to find the DVD and watch it, perhaps not really knowing to expect. Children can’t regain their innocence once it’s lost. And innocence is a beautiful and wonderful thing, something to be cherished. But who worries about stuff like that? Those of us in the Prude Revolution, like Ms. Mrozek. Join us.

Anyhoodle (yes, I got that from Ms. Mrozek), I tripped over this comic strip online a few days ago and loved it.

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May Day

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It’s May Day. So I asked my friend Paul Malvern, who stands up for working people AND is pro-life to offer his comments. Here they are:

While many people associate May Day with big military parades held decades back in the Soviet Union and other communist countries, the reality is quite different since this special day is as American as apple pie and as Canadian as hockey.

For, starting out in the 19th century, workers and their families in these two countries have used local May Day events to celebrate advances made in achieving fair pay and decent working conditions, and building a better life for their families.  Sadly, since the 1960s, workers have had less to celebrate as parties on the Left – and not a few trade unions – have downplayed working class issues in favor of ever-so-trendy identity and sexual politics that has little to do with workers and everything to do with elites and the more affluent elements of society.  A good example being support by the Left for abortion on demand – which views working class people as a liability to be reduced rather than a valuable human asset to be treasured and nurtured.

So on this particular May Day it is well to remember the original goals of this celebration.  And rededicate ourselves to focusing our efforts on the real needs of our country and those unknown, unheralded, ordinary citizens who are doing their level best to build strong families in a culture where the sanctity of life and importance of children and families are no longer hallowed principles.

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Out of the mouths of babes

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Sometimes the most insightful and remarkable statements come from children.  We have all been witness to a child whose keen observation, humility and complete innocence causes them to spout great and eternal truths at the most uncanny and opportune (or inopportune) moments in life.  Often these truths, which are so obvious to the child, have been have sullied by adults with our greed, our cynicism and our pride.

Here is one such example, and it is worth watching.

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(The YouTube link is here.)

We would do well to heed these children.

 

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Debate on campus

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From the Onion:

Saying that such a dialogue was essential to the college’s academic mission, Trescott University president Kevin Abrams confirmed Monday that the school encourages a lively exchange of one idea.

They forgot to get into the part about socially ostracizing, raising eyebrows, looking askew and docking grades for those students who discuss an idea other than the one idea everyone already agrees on. But that story could be for another day.

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Human trafficking, it happens here

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We might be inclined to think that human trafficking, namely the trafficking of young women for the purpose of prostitution, is a rather “new” phenomenon. Given the influx of films like The Whistleblower (2010) and Robert Bilheimer’s Not My Life (also 2010), in which he asks “What kind of society cannibalizes its own children? […] Can we do these sorts of things on such a large scale and still call ourselves human in any meaningful sense of the term?”

But sadly, grotesquely, it is not new but perhaps is more universal. The CBC reported yesterday on a human trafficking bust in Toronto where many of the victims were from my province of Nova Scotia.

The arrests came as no surprise to Hailey Thomas, a Grade 12 student at Prince Andrew High School in Dartmouth.

“So many young girls are recruited from schools, group homes, things like that,” she said. “If we could give this information to young women, they could identify, ‘I think I am in this situation’ or ‘I think one of my friends might be in this situation.'”

Nova Scotia is fertile ground for trafficking for a number of reasons, but I would argue that the largest reason is the vulnerability of our children. A 2014 report exposed that “not only have we broken the promise to end child poverty for the children who were living it in 1989, but a higher percentage of our children now live in poverty than was the case in 1989.”

This socioeconomic vulnerability, paired with the degenerating state of young women’s confidence and self-worth (source: Nearly every high-school aged girl’s Facebook page) alongside a loosening on the legislation of prostitution is creating a supply and demand for trafficking that Canada has perhaps never seen before. When Grade 12 students aren’t shocked to hear about their schoolmates being trafficked, it’s time to wake up to the reality of the situation and take the blinders off.

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“Pro-life position is more ethically highly evolved”

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An old article, that I found myself pondering this morning. Name the author of this quote:

But the pro-life position, whether or not it is based on religious orthodoxy, is more ethically highly evolved than my own tenet of unconstrained access to abortion on demand. My argument (as in my first book, “Sexual Personae,”) has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature’s fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Hence I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful. Liberals for the most part have shrunk from facing the ethical consequences of their embrace of abortion, which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue. The state in my view has no authority whatever to intervene in the biological processes of any woman’s body, which nature has implanted there before birth and hence before that woman’s entrance into society and citizenship.

For today, the bold is what interests me.

Also, you can be libertarian and still protest abortion.

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The schizophrenia of a socially constructed “right”

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Moral inconsistencies are never better illustrated than in real life.

Check out these two stories, printed a day apart. In the one, we have Megan Huntsman charged with six counts of first degree murder and receiving a life sentence for each newborn child that she suffocated.

In the next story a day later, we have “Lisa” glibly discussing her four abortions thus;

With the first one, you don’t know what’s going to happen. You’re scared and anxious. But once you see all the other women there, it doesn’t make you feel that bad.

And it does get easier with the more you have. I know that sounds really bad, but that is just how it is.

Megan Huntsman killed her children because she had a drug addiction and didn’t want the responsibility of raising her children.

“Lisa” killed her children because each was fathered by a different man and she didn’t want the responsibility of raising her children.

One will go to jail and quite possibly never see the light of day again. Had she had her six children killed a few days earlier through an abortion procedure, FOR THE SAME REASONS we would never have known her name.  Today she is a social pariah and a convicted felon.

Lisa on the other hand, will walk free. We will never know her real name because it has been protected, and she can carry on her life under the guise of anonymity, having more abortions if she so chooses.

The doctors who she had kill her four children will continue to dismember countless more and earn a great living doing so.

The only difference between these two mothers is that “Lisa” had the sense to have her children “terminated” through legal abortion. She played the game right.

There you have the great injustice and the horror of legal abortion, and the schizophrenia of a socially constructed “right” that is vehemently and aggressively defended, while violating everything that is decent about life.

 

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Legal action against the Ontario government

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The Association for Reform Political Action and Run with Life blogger Pat Maloney are taking legal action against the Ontario government by challenging the constitutionality of not allowing abortion to be subject to access to information requests.

Pat Maloney used to get aggregate abortion statistics by filing these access to information requests, but since the Broader Public Sector Accountability Act was passed in Ontario, she can’t.

She is not asking for private information, only the aggregate stats. The denial of this information is the opposite of Public Sector Accountability. Here are the notes from press conference held this afternoon at Queen’s Park in Toronto.

That’s because all abortion information is now excluded from FIPPA: Abortion numbers. Abortion complications. Abortion costs to the taxpayer. The demographic statistics of women who have abortions: their age, how many abortions they have, and the gestational age of the fetus at termination. Anything and everything about abortion is now being hidden by the Ontario government.

This is not about being pro-life. We need good statistics to see trends in our society and to know whether education programs are working.

Challenging the Ontario government for withholding abortion statistics.

Challenging the Ontario government for withholding abortion statistics.

It’s not her age that bothers me

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Quadruplets at age 65 sounds like a bit of a nightmare to me. Kids need parents, and if you are on the sunset side of life, it’s quite literally harder to be there for your family. But let me just say this, I don’t begrudge this woman her large family. Neither do I get particularly animated because she is a grandmother’s age. To me, the underlying problem is the ethos of “having children when we want them” through IVF. I understand that we mostly all have this idea that children are choices–and we get ’em when we want ’em, but the underlying principle of my worldview for absolutely everyone, 65, 35, gay or straight, etc. is that IVF is not the best option. I realize this is a painful thing to say for some. My reasons are as follows: There are risks associated with it; if the parts are not your own, it commercializes families and even when the parts are your own, there are still risks associated with it. I also confess I want to be consistent. If I’m not a fan of IVF for a 65 year old grandmother, what is the principle behind that if I’m OK with it for myself, or my friends? Who chooses the boundaries? Why this family and not that family? I prefer consistency, so I rule it out for everyone, including myself. The reality is that without IVF, this grandmother would not be having quadruplets. And then we wouldn’t need to worry about all the other associated risks.

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