This video took my breath away.
This is free speech…people can think freely.
The video ends with the pro-choice students chanting “no debate!” to drown out the pro-life speaker, while one student chants “democracy.”
Sigh.
12 days of Christmas by a large family
The Grinch who tried to steal Christmas
This came out yesterday, just days before the celebration of Christmas.
Health Canada has set an internal deadline of mid-January to finally make a decision on the abortion pill, a drug that is already available in 60 countries but has been stuck in Canada’s drug-approval pipeline for more than three years.
Sadly this article does NOT accurately describe the routine consequences of the RU486 abortion pill, which for most women is a harrowing ordeal.
You can read an article that I wrote on the issue that explains the serious problems with this drug. The number of deaths world-wide stand at about 22, but the adverse effects of RU486 are much more prevalent and often under-reported.
I will be writing on this issue again in the coming year.
For now, we will not allow any Grinches to steal the joy of Christmas, so a very Merry Christmas to you all!
photo credit: Sarah_Ackerman via photopin
No (wo)man is an island
As the slogan “my body, my choice” gets older and older, it is being refuted even more by science. But not the science you’re thinking of.
Robert Martone, a research scientist with extensive experience in drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases, has discovered very compelling evidence that shows the connection between mother and child to be much deeper than we may have thought.
Cells from her developing baby pass through the placenta during gestation and take up lodging throughout the mother’s body, particularly in the brain. They have all kinds of medical implications, from helping with tissue repair, to cancer prevention and auto-immune responses.
It is remarkable that it is so common for cells from one individual to integrate into the tissues of another distinct person. We are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as singular autonomous individuals, and these foreign cells seem to belie that notion, and suggest that most people carry remnants of other individuals. As remarkable as this may be, stunning results from a new study show that cells from other individuals are also found in the brain.
Dr. Martone found that in women with many children, 60% of their brains were inhabited by male and female cells from their children.
These cells seem to be inter-generational, appearing in the pregnant mother from her own previous gestation in her mother’s womb, and from her past or present pregnancies. They also appeared in siblings and twins.
Microchimerism most commonly results from the exchange of cells across the placenta during pregnancy, however there is also evidence that cells may be transferred from mother to infant through nursing. In addition to exchange between mother and fetus, there may be exchange of cells between twins in utero, and there is also the possibility that cells from an older sibling residing in the mother may find their way back across the placenta to a younger sibling during the latter’s gestation. Women may have microchimeric cells both from their mother as well as from their own pregnancies, and there is even evidence for competition between cells from grandmother and infant within the mother.
It certainly gives new meaning to the notion that no man is an island, and that we are all, somehow, interconnected.
Molly raises unborn victim of crime issue
Nearly 7 years ago Ken Epp’s Bill C-484 (Unborn Victims of Crime Act), was raised to address a certain injustice in Canada that gets routinely overlooked. The Bill passed at Second Reading in the House of Commons, but an election was called later that year, and so the bill never made it any further. Since that time, no other MP has brought it back since.
Now this case is raising the issue again. Cassandra Kaake was 7 months pregnant when she was bludgeoned to death in a burned out Windsor, Ontario residence last week Thursday. The person responsible for this tragedy will be tried for Cassandra’s death, but not for that of her little girl, whom she had named Molly.
According to Dr. Greg Hasen, academic director of obstetrics for the Schulich School of Medicine, a seven-month-old fetus is “fully developed.”
Eyes are opening and closing, they’re drinking fluid, moving around,” Hasen said in an article in the Windsor Star (Dec. 16). “Their lungs aren’t fully mature, but the growth that occurs in the last two months of pregnancy is more in weight gain.
It’s to Canada’s shame that we have no such law, while in the U.S., it’s possible to treat an unborn baby as a crime victim in the courts of 38 states.
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Uniformity in the name of diversity
Well, looking back on 2014, we’ve seen a whole host of attacks on diversity, which in most cases took the form of clamping down on Christian or pro-life expression. It’s pretty disappointing.
Here’s a great segment by Brian Lilley where he addresses two such stories.
Bah humbug!
I have learned about the effort of some this Christmas to withdraw charitable funds from those who would serve pregnant women in their hour of need. Every Christmas story has a Scrooge I suppose. I was watching A Christmas Carol recently and was reminded that the main point of A Christmas Carol is entirely lost in advertising. They never show his transformation to a generous, happy soul at the end of the movie.
For now, enjoy this clip from my favourite version (the only version, if you ask me) of A Christmas Carol:
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If you believe in prayer…
..now’s the time to put your belief into action. Peter Ryan, the executive director of New Brunswick Right to Life is asking for prayer today, as the NB Legislature debates abortion.
The new Liberal premier, Brian Gallant, has promised to strip New Brunswick of every last shred of protection for women seeking abortion in the province by January 1st, but the Conservatives have decided to not allow any changes until the Legislature has had a chance to debate the issue.
The notice of motion was introduced by two women PC MLAs, Dorothy Shephard, and seconded by Jody Carr. It reads:
Be it resolved that the Legislative Assembly urge the government to cause any changes to abortion services that it has adopted or intends to adopt to be the subject of a debate in the House, and to delay implementation of those changes until that debate has occurred.
Thank you to these women for at least recognizing the democratic process.
The January 1st change would mean tax-funded abortion on demand in NB hospitals, a historic policy change, with a likely gradual but steep increase in the abortion rate.
According to Ryan, today’s debate could go to an unlikely vote – it would certainly take a miracle, hence the request for prayers.
He writes:
Today an all-important debate on abortion policy will take place in the NB Legislature, initiated by the Tory opposition. They could push for a vote on the issue (the government is not obliged to vote on this, as the policy change in Regulations (not legislation) is due to take place through an Order-in-Council under the cabinet’s direction). If a vote does take place, that likely has to happen by this Friday, when the Legislature is likely to recess for Christmas.
If a vote were to take place, the results could be interesting. About 10 of the government’s MLAs (out of 26 total) have pro-life leanings, and if 5 of them were to jump ship the outcome of the vote could be favorable!
I therefore turn to you and the national pro-life community for spiritual help at this time. Perhaps you could remember us in prayer over the coming hours and couple days. Thank you so much.
For more information on this issue, see the LifeSite breaking news article here.
Pre-natal testing not totally accurate
Many women do abort on the basis of what they consider to be a bad prenatal diagnosis. I know of one. Please think of them when you read this article, because they are highly likely to already be conflicted over their decision, and this is a very hard thing to read:
A report from Beth Daley at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting explores the story of a Rhode Island woman named Stacie Chapman, who very nearly terminated a much-wanted pregnancy at three months after a prenatal blood test called MaterniT21 predicted that her baby probably had Trisomy 18, also known as Edwards Syndrome, a serious chromosomal disorder that can lead to severe birth defects. (The median lifespan for a baby with Edwards is 15 days, and many die long before that.)
Chapman called her husband sobbing when she heard the news, then scheduled an abortion for the following day. Her doctor urged her to wait, and a follow-up test showed that her baby didn’t in fact have Edwards; her son Lincoln Samuel just turned 1 and is perfectly healthy.
“Special” on Parliament Hill
Having wiped the tears of laughter from my cheek, let me now continue.
The group that planted the flags received “special” permission because all displays on Parliament Hill need “special” permission. In a very “special” process called “applying” that you and I can all do, because it’s Parliament Hill and we as Canadians own that “special,” “special” space and can “apply” to “use” “it.”
So. By way of example, if the Society of People With Heads Up Their Asses (SOPWHUTA) wanted to plant some flags on Parliament Hill, they’d need “special” permission, too.
And would anyone look into that?
No. Perhaps because that’s a club they are in.
PS Who, by the way, actually believes that the Prime Minister is personally involved with approvals for displays on Parliament Hill? Really.
PPS This non-story really got my goat. Because if there is one thing that is very, very, VERY true, particular with the current government, it’s that pro-lifers don’t get special treatment. Precisely because the government is so keen on drawing lines between themselves and pro-lifers, more often the treatment is a negative special treatment. So this story simply draws attention to the great abyss between what actually happens and what people think happens.
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