From Live Action: @LiveActionFilms: Scratch a U.N. women's conference, and you'll find a whole lot of people agitating for #abortion worldwide http://ow.ly/cbS0j It's notable that the Commission on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women doesn't care about gendercide in South and East Asia and that the Women's Commissar is insulting to pro-life women.
The United Nations has declared July 11 World Population Day. But according to the UN Population Fund, it is not a day to celebrate. Rather, it is a time to plan for fewer people. Or as the UNFPA euphemistically puts it, their campaigns seek to convince the world of the "essential part that reproductive health plays in creating a just and equitable world." Over at ProWomanProLife, [...]
Fantastic video of Kathy Shaidle (AKA Five Feet of Fury) and David Menzies talking about a preacher who was harassed by police at the Pride Parade in Toronto while actual laws are broken literally behind the backs of cops. Shaidle says police will have to change their motto from "Our cops are tops" to "Our cops are bottoms."
The New Abortion Caravan completed its cross country trip (Vancouver to Ottawa). Here's The Interim's coverage from the July issue of the paper. We will have more in a forthcoming edition of the paper.
Abortion proponents deny that abortion is used as a form of birth control, but Andrea Mrozek has found proof -- from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Erin Gloria Ryan writes at the feminist Jezebel website: "Until mass abstinence is feasible or permanent pregnancy is desired, sustainable, or safe, though, the best options women have to control their reproductive health are contraception and abortion."
The argument of the Independent Women's Forum against Washington's involvement in distributing contraception has been summarized by Reason. Three key points: contraception is widely available, with various price-points so it is affordable to all, and the only job the federal government has is ensure safety and protect patents. It could be argued that the Food and Drug Administration does not do enough to warn [...]
The American Spectator's Daniel J. Flynn doesn't like the Library of Congress's "Books That Shaped America." That exhibit has 88 books and none are "explicitly conservative" although there is plenty of liberal fare (Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Betty Friedan's The Feminist Mystique, Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On). Many of these left-wing books have been influential, but as Flynn points out, the inclusion of Margaret Sanger is [...]
The American Spectator's Daniel Allott notes that Georgetown Magazine, Georgetown University's alumni magazine, reports former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, a Georgetown grad chair of the university's borad of directors, has given $5 million for a variety of programs. Georgetown Magazine reports: The Tagliabues’ $5 million gift will be divided equally among five areas: need-based undergraduate scholarships, scholarships for student-athletes in both men’s and women’s [...]
Ed Whelan looks at the 20th anniversary of Planned Parenthood v. Casey and says: By a vote of 5 to 4, the Supreme Court bungles an opportunity to dismantle the regime of Roe v. Wade and to restore abortion policy to the democratic processes. In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Justices O’Connor, Kennedy, and Souter combine to produce a joint opinion so breathtaking in [...]
Ray Pennings of Cardus discusses Nadine Schweigert and "a world without love." Pennings says Schweigert sounds surprisingly reasonable, at times even noble, but that ultimately with our now different understandings ("when words cease to have shared meaning, life becomes so much more difficult") of what were once common ideals, we are in serious trouble as both a society and individuals.
Blazing Cat Fur exposes the Toronto District School Board's plans to have elementary schoolboys cross dress. BCF knows this because he's read the curriculum guide used in the TDSB (and which gay activists, school trustees and Liberal/NDP politicians will claim is a figment of the imagination of 'homophobes'). BCF says: "The Guide is entitled Both/and.. This section makes it plain that students [...]
Campaign Life Coalition's Matt Wojciechowski looks at the new federal anti-smoking warning labels featuring graphic messaging and wonders why the government doesn't also require warning labels for abortion. Wojciechowski says: If the Ministry of Health can regulate one industry by mandating the use of graphic and disturbing images on their products in order to reduce consumption and save lives, why aren’t they [...]
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has provided six talking points in response to the Carter decision. Here's an important one: Canada prohibited capital punishment based on the possibility that the death of an innocent person may occur. Euthanasia and assisted suicide may result in the deaths of people without request or consent. Canada needs to continue prohibiting euthanasia and assisted suicide.
A press release from Alexandra Jezierski, who is organizing the Letters for Life initiative. Prime Minister pressures MPs; Teen's campaign puts pressure back on Harper Kingsville, ON, June 20, 2012 - Just as the news leaks out of Parliament that Stephen Harper is putting pressure on his Tory MPs to vote against Motion 312, which would strike a committee to investigate scientific [...]
Writing in the New Yorker Jeffrey Toobin asserts but does not prove that Mitt Romney and the Republicans have an "aborton problem." That argument is not terribly original as it's repeated every four years and then exit polls invariably show that in most battleground states that Republicans generally get a small bump in support because of their pro-life position. What is interesting [...]