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Illiberally pro-choice
The opening paragraph of this letter to the editor of the Delaware County Daily Times speaks for itself: The Stupak amendment to the House health-care bill makes insurance coverage for abortion virtually unavailable for millions of women purchasing insurance plans through the newly created health insurance exchange. This is such an unbelievable step backward for us as a society, it should be illegal to consider this. Emphasis added to make clear how anti-democratic and illiberal the pro-abortion side can be. (HT: Jill ... (Continue reading)
Change the culture by changing TV
Big Blue Wave: Canadians: Change the culture! Tell the CRTC what you think ... About the way cable companies operate. I know most of you hate paying for channels that you don't use. Tell them: Stop the packaging system and end cable monopolies! This is something that affects almost everyone. If we could get this changed, that would be a huge improvement to popular culture. Most people try to police popular media through censorship, but Suzanne at BBW is suggesting a market solution to the garbage on television ... (Continue reading)
New stories at TheInterim.com
The last of the November edition of The Interim is now online, including: Global battle over abortion as a right. Human trafficking law passes. Abortion, condom advocate to speak at evangelical college Stephen Lewis to lecture at Redeemer University. The person behind the aborted baby photos. Reducing abortions: The untold ... (Continue reading)
WaPo misreads poll of Republicans
The Washington Post reports that the Republican rank-and-file are divided over how the party leadership has handled a number of policy files, and predictably it notes a number of 'divisive' moral issues. But read the actual poll more closely and you realize that on moral issues, Republicans do not want the party to veer left on abortion and same-sex marriage. Asked if the party gives too much emphasis to SSM, 27% wanted less focus, 38% want more and 32% say it is the ... (Continue reading)
Assorted links (12/01)
The Centers for Disease Control released the 2006 abortion numbers for the United States: 846,181 for the 46 states that reported abortion numbers, which represents a slight increase. It does not include California. LifeSiteNews.com has the story. New York magazine has a long article by Jennifer Senior on "The Abortion Distortion: Just how pro-choice is America, really?" Senior concludes not very "pro-choice." The Catholic Register reports that pro-family and Catholic groups have applauded the federal government's proposed anti-child porn law. The ... (Continue reading)
Safer cars for pregnant women
USA Today reports: Ford Motor-funded research at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest universities is near completion on mathematical models that measure how crash forces affect pregnant women and fetuses. States are not required to report fetal deaths in data sent to the federal fatal accident system -- some do, and some don't. But researcher Stefan Duma of Virginia Tech says reliable studies show from 300 to 1,000 fetal deaths because of car accidents each year. Duma says the fatality rate of unborn ... (Continue reading)
The ‘moderate’ senators from Maine
The New York Times has a profile of sorts of a pair of Maine senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, in which author Andrew Miga trots out the usual line about them being "fiscally conservative, yet more socially moderate" Republicans who "part with the GOP on issues like abortion rights and the environment." There are a number of problems with this argument. The first in particular to Snowe and Collins, the second about the use of the term moderate when applied ... (Continue reading)
Lalonde delays vote on Bill C-384, again
Bill C-384 is the private members bill that was introduced by Bloc MP Francine Lalonde to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. C-384 was introduced on May 13, 2009, it received its first hour of debate on Oct 2, 2009 and it was scheduled to receive its second hour of debate on Nov 16 and to be voted-on Nov 18, 2009. Lalonde is on the run. First she traded-back her date for the second hour of debate to Nov 19, ... (Continue reading)
Assorted links (11.30)
Ruth Marcus has a longish piece in Newsweek on how abortion will not scuttle Obamacare. At The American Spectator, Mark Tooley looks at how the Religious Left, especially the United Methodist Board of Church and Society, is opposed to the Stupak-Pitts amendment. The Daily Telegraph had an article last week entitled "Fertility: stop all the clocks," on attempts by one doctor to maintain the fertility for women who delay motherhood by "pausing biological time by freezing ovarian tissue." Women's E-News reports ... (Continue reading)
Review of Morgentaler’s Order of Canada refused
From the Catholic Civil Rights League: The Catholic Civil Rights League today expressed disappointment with the recent Federal Court decision striking the application of Frank Chauvin for judicial review of the decision awarding the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler in 2008. Frank Chauvin, a retired Windsor police detective, was inducted into the Order of Canada in 1987, largely in recognition of his work in the support of underprivileged girls in Haiti. As a member of the Order of Canada, ... (Continue reading)
Me on TV
I'll be on Behind the Story on CTS Sunday night at 7 pm local time in Ontario and Alberta (re-broadcast the following Friday at 11 am) and available elsewhere in Canada if you are a Rogers digital subscriber. At some point after it has broadcast, it is available here at CTS's website. We'll be talking about torture in Afghanistan, not mentioning the Muslim connection to the carnage at Fort Hood, Stephane Dion's wife criticizing Michael Ignatieff and a bunch of other things, ... (Continue reading)
Why we call ‘pro-choice’ supporters ‘pro-abortion
In the Lon Jacobs article noted earlier by Paul Tuns, the conclusion reminds us why the pro-abortion side is not really about choice and not really neutral, but very much pro-abortion: In my mind, President Bill Clinton had it about right when he called for abortion to be safe, legal and rare. If that is to be more than just a convenient political spin, we who support a woman's right to choose should do our part to celebrate the ... (Continue reading)
Is Senator Casey pro-life enough?
The New York Times has an article on Senator Robert Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania who pretends to be pro-life but whose primary credential on this file is that his late father, one-time governor of the Keystone State, was a principled pro-lifer who was denied a platform to speak (about anything) at the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Casey says he is often compared to his father, often to his detriment, but there are some of us who think the comparison is unearned. ... (Continue reading)
Down syndrome babies and eugenic hate
Lon Jacobs writes in the Wall Street Journal about Sarah Palin's advocacy on behalf of those with Down syndrome, his own Down syndrome child, and the abortion debate. He says: What separates me from many other pro-choicers I encounter is that I strongly believe we need to make abortion rare. In too many quarters we have moved from a society that protects the right to abortion to one that promotes it. This is especially true with regard to those with ... (Continue reading)
40 Days for Life closes Planned Parenthood mill
Often we don't see the fruits of our labours in the pro-life movement. We don't know how or even if our witness or our prayer has moved others. Values Voter News has a video of a Planned Parenthood facility in Montana that closed down during 40 Days for Life, in part due to the decreased business that often accompanies these prayerful witnesses. (Continue reading)
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