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This is a well done video. Give if you can.

Jonathon Van Maren, tell us how you really feel. LOTS of zingers in there. Happy Father’s Day, indeed.

Abortion, of course, is the generally proposed solution to the inconvenient presence of a developing human being that showed up to spoil all the fun. Since Frat Boy Tom really didn’t want to have a baby with Sally From The Bar, Tom can gently—or, more often, loudly—suggest that Sally go to a clinic and have their brand new, blissfully unaware offspring shredded by a suction aspirator and tossed in the trash. Problem solved—Tommy’s conquest now has an actual body count, but at least he dodged having to explain to his now-deceased child how he met Mommy or mitigating his travel plans with child support payments. But—horrors—what if Sally doesn’t want to allow the local fetus exterminator to force his way into her uterus and forcibly evict the baby that could well have her laugh and Tom’s eyes? What is poor Tom (who hasn’t even found himself yet!) to do?

My fabulous EFC colleague Julia Beazley had a great op-ed piece run in today’s National Post:

Why is this? Because the violence experienced by women in prostitution is not rooted in the laws on paper, or in how they stand up to a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The violence directed at women in prostitution is rooted in the demand for paid access to women’s bodies — and the fundamental inequality that underlies this sense of entitlement. [...]

The violence is rooted in the underlying view among the people, mostly men, that purchase them that women in prostitution are somehow fundamentally different from their mothers, sisters, girlfriends, wives and daughters. This misperception justifies treatment of women as objects to be bought and sold. The very existence of prostitution requires a subclass of people who are available to be bought, sold and rented; people understood to be somehow just a little less equal than everyone else. The Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia have discovered that legalizing prostitution does not change this.

photo credit: Hani Amir via photopin cc

You can learn about this new palliative care facility called Emily’s House through Global News, here.

I link to this because I follow the blog of Lindsey Yeskoo, whose daughter is Emily, after whom the facility is named. Lindsey’s daily writing, which tells of her family, her life and the story of how she has cared for Emily for many years now (I joined in maybe two years ago) has been something of an inspiration to me. So much grace to absorb from her words and her example. Grace and peace: two qualities I long to possess, but oftentimes show little. I’m working on it!

I’d like to hear Tania Fiolleau speak about her life as a former madam. I think her story would be really interesting. How she got into prostitution, how she got out, what she thinks of the madams currently clamouring for legalization.

If you are in North Bay on June 22, the REAL Women chapter up there is hosting her for lunch. They’d like you to buy tickets in advance. More info can be found here.

Linda Gibbons protests inside the bubble zones outside Toronto abortion clinics. She paces quietly and hands out pamphlets. For this she has spent many years in jail, and on Tuesday this past week, she was arrested again. This is her life’s work and I’m grateful to her for it.

In moments, I wonder what would happen if more of us joined her in a concerted effort with media advisories going out ahead of time. Ie. many young women being thrown in prison might cause more of a stir than one elderly one, who to be frank, we’ve gotten used to. It’s more a question of when Linda Gibbons is going back to jail, not if. I muse about this kind of idea regularly, if you’d like to know about the inner workings of my mind.

Then I muse about building a house with space for young girls who are unexpectedly pregnant to live in, but now I’m digressing.

Yesterday, Quebec introduced its euthanasia bill. Euthanasia is currently a criminal act, though Quebec is trying to work around the Criminal Code by declaring it health care. From Wesley Smith:

As I understand the Canadian system, all hospitals, nursing homes, etc., are publicly funded, part by the province and part by the federal government. This would appear to mean that every taxpayer in Canada will be underwriting euthanasia, and moreover, that the provincial government of Quebec will require the killing of patients to be allowed in all publicly funded hospitals, residential care facilities and nursing homes.

Assisted suicide and intentional homicide are crimes in Canada, under the federal criminal code. But the provinces are in charge of regulating medicine. So, Quebec seeks to get out from under the federal criminal laws by redefining euthanasia as health care, e.g., the medical treatment of “aid in dying.”

If this becomes law, it will be a disaster for our country of epic proportions, but I’ll save that rant for another day. However, the “safeguards” put in place to ensure that people aren’t euthanized against their will, etc, will surely be watered down in years to come, as has happened in other countries that have permitted the practice. Our friend Alex Schadenberg explains,

Some call it a “slippery slope” and others call it an incremental extension, nonetheless, doctors appear to be breaking the law by killing, by euthanasia, children with disabilities, such as spina bifida.

Smith states that if assisted suicide is accepted, the same will occur in the United States.

In Canada we have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that recognizes that we are all equal under the law. Therefore, legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide in Canada will logically be extended, through the court, to all Canadians. You can’t have a little euthanasia.

Disabled babies are already being euthanized in the Netherlands are part of the Groningen Protocol. Let me tell you – the Netherlands’ euthanasia laws had plenty of safeguards in place when the country legalized the practice years ago. Then they were watered down as Alex explains above. Now babies are being euthanized. Like Fido, the family pet.

And children will be euthanized in Belgium as well, another country that has legalized euthanasia. The country debated the matter this past week.

In the wake of several months of testimony from doctors and experts in medical ethics, a Belgian Senate committee will on June 12 examine the possible extension of the country’s euthanasia law to include children.

“On both sides of the linguistic border, liberals and socialists appear to agree on the fact that age should not be regarded as a decisive criteria in the event of a request for euthanasia,” notes De Morgen. They want doctors to decide on a minor’s capacity for discernment on a case by case basis.

Not only do we need to worry about abortion taking our young, as well as rocking our families and societies, now we’ll need to worry about euthanasia doing the same.

CBC reports on 23 young women who have died taking the Pill.

The lawyer on the class action suit explains:

Merchant said the number of deaths potentially associated with Yasmin or Yaz may be largely underreported because doctors may not realize there is a link between the cause of death and the risks of the pills.

Doctors prescribe the Pill at the drop of the hat. So yes, I’ll agree that they don’t realize the link. A good book to read is Barbara Seaman’s The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women if you are interested in understanding why the Pill is not terribly good for women’s health.

Andrea referred to it last week. It’s now available online. His talk was both hilarious and challenging. And he discusses the abortion debate!

His introduction starts at about the 25 minute mark. He fails to note his website address during the talk, but if you want to visit it, it’s here.

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Andrea adds: Hurray!

I can see from the other posts that Faye is in the business of providing some serious content for this blog. Thank you, Faye.

Enter Andrea for the fluff.

Let me just say that I no longer blast Pink in my car–it’s all Serena Ryder now. And in a rare, rare moment of pop culture, the lyrics are kosher. Really, this song is an adult version of “If you are happy and you know it, clappa your hands… stompa your feet.”