Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Josie Luetke: Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner have long been personal heroines of mine. When I was still just a high school student I was personally challenged by their witness and seriously wrestled with the dilemma of whether I—and the rest of the pro-life movement—should be so committed to the defense of the pre-born [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Houston, you have a problem. This past May, one of your own, “strongly pro-life” Texas senators Ted Cruz (R) co-sponsored a bill to protect access to IVF. Actually, Houston, we have a lot of problems, because Cruz is far from the only big “pro-life” name to come out in support of in [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Last year, the only pro-life MP to attend the National March for Life was Arnold Viersen (CPC, Peace River—Westlock). Bill C-311, the Violence Against Pregnant Women Act, tabled by MP Cathay Wagantall (CPC, Yorkton—Melville), was being debated at the time, and the mainstream media and leftist politicians were taking pains to paint [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey As British politician Lord Acton once remarked, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” And for some reason, a bunch of lowly municipal politicians in Canada have become convinced they possess absolute power. I do not exaggerate. The Corporate Services Committee for Niagara Region (that you’ve likely never heard of [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Canada’s fertility rate is now 1.3 children per woman, its lowest in recorded history. Replacement level fertility, by comparison, is 2.1 children per woman. Several years ago, Statistics Canada cautioned, “If the country’s fertility continues to decline further in the coming years, Canada could join the countries with the ‘lowest-low’ fertility rates [...]
Josie Leutke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey The end of January brought a disorienting amount of good news for the pro-life and pro-family movement. The expansion of euthanasia to those suffering solely from mental illness would be pushed back until at least 2027. Clinic 554, the private abortion facility in Fredericton, New Brunswick, finally closed its doors. Alberta’s Premier [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I remember finding it so ironic seeing a Planned Parenthood poster in Rory Gilmore’s dorm room, given that there would be no Rory Gilmore—and no Gilmore Girls television show for me to watch—had Rory’s mom gone to Planned Parenthood when she got pregnant at 15. There is no story to tell when you’re dead. [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I completely understand why “pro-choicers” use rape as their trump card. If the preborn are simply clumps of cells lacking moral status or the mother’s bodily autonomy takes precedence regardless, then how much more justified is abortion when her bodily autonomy has already been grossly violated, when there’s a thing inside her as a [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few” (Matthew 9:37). Therefore, the labourers often get asked to do more labour than that for which they have time. In June, I was asked to delegate to the Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board to request that they cease to fly the Gay [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Imagine that you’re mentally ill, convinced that you’re worthless, and waging an internal war with yourself over whether you ought to keep on living or not. You weigh the pros and cons. You consider who might be sad over your death, and so you attempt to keep lists of things to look [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey There’s a quotation I really like from author and left-wing activist Andrew Boyd: “You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.” When you use abortion victim photography in activism, as I have for almost a decade now, [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey The death of Roe v. Wade was a death for women and progress, but you can’t say it didn’t birth some amazing comedy—from Andrew Schulz, Chris Rock, Bill Burr, and others. Louis C.K. recently mused about a law which keeps abortion “available,” but “limits it”—maybe turns down the enthusiasm a notch. He [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey It’s perversely fitting that an act that renders so many speechless (literally and figuratively) lacks any appropriate descriptors in speech. “MAiD” or “medical assistance/aid in dying,” as it’s most commonly referred to now, is the latest inception of a long evolution of palatability-tested phrases. “Medically-assisted death” was discarded, presumably because the unfortunately [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey My anonymous Twitter troll has seemingly finally moved onto bigger and better things (knock on wood), but in the past, (presumably) he would repeatedly demand I educate myself on the history of the pride flag – originally the gay pride flag. I recently declined to attend an alumni event at my alma [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Josie Luetke: Included in the LGBTQ community’s ever-expanding lexicon for their fantasy world is the phrase “trans erasure.” In an Everyday Feminism article, “non-binary” writer Ayesha Sharma claims, “Trans and gender variant people’s existences are overlooked, invalidated, and erased every single day.” Of course, it is the height of gaslighting, of deceit, to attempt [...]