May 4, 2008

Thomas Bouchard, on Show me the data:

I would say it’s an “art” to be a prolife medical student these days. I’m in my first year at the University of Calgary and we have an active group of Christians defending prolife issues in class, and have non-Christian supporters as well. Somehow, we’ve been able to strike a balance with the prochoice group - agreeing to disagree, and accepting that we can discuss certain issues without trying to convince each other who’s right.

Let me give you a recent example to illustrate this. We had an open forum on the right not to refer for abortions, inviting family doctors who do not refer, and some who do. We had a lively discussion, but because there’s a strong group of us who are passionate in defending a prolife position, our voice wasn’t censored as it so often is.

I think our strength lay in our insistence on evidence, as Dr. Ney put it in his response. There is now a large body of literature that prolife physicians and students can depend on, and we need to continue adding to it. In this way, prochoice students can wrestle with the literature rather than with us.

The best thing for a pro-life med student to do is to remain collegial, and stand behind good evidence. And as Dr. Ney advises, we cannot remain silent if we hope to change the face of medicine in the future.

The “art” of medicine comes in choosing the right words, in being approachable, in helping even those who disagree with us to fall in love with the truth because it is so compelling!

 

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Loretta Westin, on How much time?:

I I’m all for going after the “dealers” as far as jail time goes. Go for the doctors and facilitators. Put Planned Parenthood “counselors” in jail. The people actually promoting and doing the killing should be the target of prosecution.

I wonder how that approach would go over?

 

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Suzanne, on We’re supposed to get used to this?:

When 9-year-olds shake their booties (and I don’t mean footwear) at school talent shows, and their musical tastes are formed by “give it to me baby”, why should we be surprised that they are then dating at 11 (as do some of my daughter’s classmates), and having sex shortly thereafter… let’s just connect the dots. There are many parents that I would just like to shake!

 

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Suzanne, on Changed:

I tend to agree with that statistic (i.e. 1 in 3 U.S. women will have an abortion in their lifetime). Consider the fact that every year, about 2 per cent of fertile women have abortions. Over the course of 20 years, that’s a lot of women. So I completely believe it. A lot of women have abortions out there. That’s why it’s hard to change the laws.

 

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Elena Repka, on They don’t mince words in New York either…:

Wow Tanya! You understand it better than most Catholics. Well said!

 

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ImpatientPatient, on She dislikes stupid people:

Ladies,

Thank you for linking to my rant about Vicki Saporta’s op-ed. I cannot BELIEVE how many hits I’ve gotten from your site and others that have linked to it.

I wanted to just say one thing. I almost feel the need to apologize for all the expletives in the post. I went back through the post a few times because it even made ME uncomfortable. But really? REALLY?

I just kept it because it really truly demonstrated exactly how I was feeling. SO ANNOYED!

Cheers,

The Impatient Patient