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Who is oppressing who?

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Couldn’t have said this better myself:

Part of the reason the abortion debate is so polarized is that the pro-choice faction wants to do just that — look away from the medical truth of what abortion does to an unborn baby. Maybe they should meet Denise Mountenay. Or would they rather look away from her too, because she represents a different unpleasant truth–what abortion does to women?  “I was 16 when I had my first abortion,”Mountenay says in an interview from her Morinville home. “My mother said, ‘Denise, you have your whole life ahead of you. Have that operation.’ I thought, I’ll just be unpregnant.”…It wasn’t until after her third abortion that she came across information on fetal development, and “I was like, ‘oh, my God’. It was a revelation. I was absolutely devastated. I read that at three weeks it has a beating heart. This is not a clump of tissue, it’s a little person.”

Pro-choicers are keen on looking away–efforts to show what the baby is through ultrasounds are met with this sort of attack:

Abortion foes have a new tactic: The hope that women can’t look away.

Let me get this straight: ultrasounds showing the beating heart are fanatical? And letting women go ahead with killing their child, without offering that information is compassionate. Kudos (again) to Naomi Lakritz for this sort of compelling column in defence of women’s rights.

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[Editor’s Note: Tanya’s wrath is directed at the author of the blog, see the second link above, not Naomi Lakritz.]

Tanya can’t believe it:  It takes a lot for me to get sincerely annoyed at someone.  This lady managed to push some serious buttons.  It’s the type of thing where, if she were in the same room as me, I’d say things to her that I’d later regret.

“No woman seeking an abortion does so unthinkingly.”  Really?  I know one.  Would you like to meet her so that you can stop your ignorant generalizations?

“Few, if any, women use abortion as birth control”  Is that why 46% of women did not use contraception during the month they became pregnant?

“Elections have consequences. You lost. Go away.”  I’m guessing this lady hid under a rock for the eight years prior to Obama being sworn in.  It would explain her nonsensical arguments.

OK, I’m done.

Smart move

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I just received this press release from Carleton Lifeline, Carleton University’s pro-life club–about a Silent No More event they’ll hold tomorrow:

Women speak about their abortion experience at Carleton University

“Abortion does hurt women… it hurt me” – Angelina Steenstra

On January 8th, 2009 at 11:30 AM in University Center 182 at Carleton University, members of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC) will share their experiences with abortion.

This event is open to the public.

Angelina Steenstra, the National Director of the Campaign will be one of the guest speakers. The event is hosted by Carleton Lifeline – the pro-life club at Carleton University. The purpose of the event and the Campaign is to provide women with an opportunity to share the difficulties that they faced after having an abortion, to reach out to those who may be
suffering and let people know there is help available.

The event is a good example of Carleton’s new project to create a university that “questions everything” and “challenges conventional thinking.”

Two months ago the SNMAC speakers were unable to present their testimonies due to a complaint from a student, which led to the guests being ordered to leave University grounds.

The club has had trouble with expressing their views previously. Two years ago the Student government nearly shut the club down.

Ruth Lobo, president of Lifeline, says, “We expect this event to proceed without incident after booking and confirming with our student union.”

For More Information
Ruth Lobo, Carleton Lifeline President, [email protected] , 613 – 796 – 1405

“The event is a good example of Carleton’s new project to create a university that “questions everything” and “challenges conventional thinking.”

So glad the university administration and student union is finally onside with allowing learning on campus. Let’s wait and see if they really mean it. (I understand a Silent No More event was unceremoniously booted off campus in the past.)

Women who know too much

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This article isn’t meant to make you sad, but that’s what I felt after reading it.

…today’s young women are questioning abortion not because they know too little, but because they know too much. They have paid the price for the modern feminist embrace of counterfeit liberation…

Yes, we all know too much. So perhaps my feminist “foremothers” will forgive me if I don’t thank them for bestowing on me a false notion of equality, an “equality,” they themselves, in many cases, never had to experience.

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