That doesn’t seem to deter him, though:
Abortion doctor admits that what he is about to do is infanticide
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Ontario judge declares “your God is wrong” to pro-life supporter
It is good to see judges taking an interest in theology. It’s a pity that this particular specimen seems to think that God is Canadian and is bound by Canadian law – or lack of it, really, since there is no Canadian law that limits abortion.
From here:
TORONTO, Ontario, March 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Ontario Court of Justice judge erupted in a lengthy, angry tirade against pro-life activist Mary Wagner – and ejected a spectator from the public gallery – in a downtown Toronto courtroom Wednesday. The judge then sent Wagner to jail for an additional 92 days, added to 88 days already served prior to trial, after finding her guilty of mischief and two counts of failing to comply with probation orders.
The charges related to Wagner’s November 8 arrest at the site of the Bloor West Village “Women’s Clinic.” Wagner has been arrested on several occasions for peacefully entering abortion facilities in Toronto, where she presents women in the waiting room with a rose and offers them pro-life counseling.
The remarkable scene played itself out after Crown attorney Derek Ishak and defense counsel Russell Browne made a joint submission to Mr. Justice S. Ford Clements for time served plus a three-year probationary term. But Clements emphatically rejected the submission.
“She can sit in jail, if that’s the only way to protect people,” he fulminated, calling Wagner “cowardly” for “abusing other human beings” and not having the courage to make her views known through other channels. “This is an extraordinary waste of resources. Get a grip!”
“You don’t get it, do you? What’s the rule of law? You’re required to abide by it … You’ve lost the right as a citizen to be anywhere near an abortion clinic or to speak to an employee,” he said.
“You’re wrong and your God’s wrong,” he continued. “You have complete contempt … There is a right to (abortion) in this country … You don’t have a right to cause (abortion-seeking women) extra pain and grief the way you do.”
“[Abortion] is legal,” he continued, “that’s all you have to understand … You start causing people emotional pain and harm, you think that’s okay?”
He then asked Wagner whether she would stay away from abortion sites for three years as required by the proposed terms of probation.
“I will not,” Wagner replied firmly.
“Then you’re going to jail,” said Clements.
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Clements was unmoved. “You have, in some measure, displayed utter contempt for the courts and the rights of others,” he said. “You appear to be governed by a higher moral order than the laws of our country.”
“Your determination to break the law is a potential threat to the well-being of society and plants the seeds of lawlessness, perhaps even anarchy … You are unable to accord some civility and respect to others. Your view in law is wrong.”
Judge Clements was correct on two points: Mary Wagner is “governed by a higher moral order than the laws of our country” – admittedly, not an overly high hurdle; and Wagner has shown the courts the respect they deserve: “utter contempt”.
Other than that, the views and behaviour of the judge appear to be those of a demented imbecile.
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All you need is love
And some people love abortion. Abortion is evil, so love isn’t all you need: you should love what is right and good.
I love abortion. I don’t accept it. I don’t view it as a necessary evil. I embrace it. I donate to abortion funds. I write about how important it is to make sure that every woman has access to safe, legal abortion services. I have bumper stickers and buttons and t-shirts proclaiming my support for reproductive freedom. I love abortion.
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Rev. Katherine Ragsdale would break the law to help a minor get an abortion
Rev. Ragsdale is president and dean of the Episcopal Divinity School and a lesbian. No-one was shocked by that, but she did cause a bit of a stir when she called abortion a blessing.
The best thing I can think of to say about her is: at least she is consistent. Consistently wicked.
From here:
(CNSNews.com) – Were Congress to outlaw the transporting of a minor without her parents’ permission across state lines to get an abortion, an abortion- and gay-rights activist testifying on Capitol Hill Thursday she would break the law to continue to help girls end their pregnancies.
Appearing as a Democratic Party witness at a hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president and dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. recalled the time she took a 15-year-old girl she had never met before to get an abortion.
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Researcher who suggested infanticide might be justifiable gets death threats
The truly strange thing about this is that Francesca Minerva, the author of the paper, is surprised by the death threats. After all, she says, “this is pure academic, theoretical discussion.” It obviously hasn’t occurred to her that the death threats were probably just academic and theoretical.
As the journal’s editor, Professor Julian Savulescu noted, Minerva’s argument that a newborn baby is not an “actual person” and, therefore, can be used, abused, killed and discarded is “largely not new”. It was used before in the Final Solution.
From here:
A researcher at the University of Melbourne has been the target of numerous death threats after she published a theoretical paper which argued killing newborn babies is no different from abortion.
The paper, written by Francesca Minerva and Monash University teaching assistant Alberto Giubilini, was published in the Journal of Medical Ethics last week and is titled “After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?”
It suggests newborn babies are not “actual persons” and do not have a “moral right to life” because they “both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life of an individual”.
Dr Minerva, who said the last four days have been the worst in her life, has asked for people to understand the perspective of her work.
“This is not a political paper, this is not a proposal for a law,” she told ninemsn.
“This is pure academic, theoretical discussion.”
Dr Minerva said the paper was based on thirty years of medical ethics discussions.
“Both a foetus and a newborn certainly are human beings and potential persons but neither is a ‘person’ in the sense of a ‘subject of a moral right to life’,” the paper states.
“We take ‘person’ to mean an individual who is capable of attributing to her own existence some (at least) basic value such that being deprived of this existence represents a loss to her.”
They conclude their argument by stating: “What we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.”
Dr Minerva said she was not expecting the overwhelmingly negative reaction and believes her argument has been taken out of its academic and theoretical context.
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Archbishop Robert Duncan stands with Catholics against abortion
The Obama administration has mandated that Catholic institutions, as employers, fund the prescribing of abortifacient contraceptive drugs to their employees. Unsurprisingly, Catholics are somewhat upset about this.
Archbishop Robert Duncan has made this statement in support of the Catholic Church:
Archbishop Robert Duncan released the following statement in support of the Catholic Church’s fight to maintain freedom of conscience in the midst of the U.S. federal government issuing a preventive care mandate in violation of its teaching.
“The Anglican Church in North America stands by our Catholic brothers and sisters as followers of Christ in a nation whose Constitution guarantees ‘the free exercise’ of religion. As Christians, our faith and doctrine are at the very heart of our service to others in our community. Therefore, it is extremely troubling to see our government mandate services contrary to Catholic Church teaching. I call on all members of the Anglican Church to stand by our Catholic brothers and sisters, and pray for our elected officials to have the courage to stand up for religious freedom and overturn this mandate,” said Archbishop Duncan.
As Archbishop Duncan has called “on all members of the Anglican Church” to add their support, I’m expecting a flood of agreement from Anglican bishops all over North America, starting with Katharine Jefferts-Schori and Fred Hiltz.
Or not.
The pathetic truth is that, for all their trumpeting about social justice, both TEC and the ACoC are completely indifferent to the injustice that will define the callous barbarity of Western civilisation for ages to come: murdering their unborn.
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Police seize pro-life posters in Calgary
The excuse seems to have been that the posters were “obscene”, a contention I find easy to believe; the problem is, the posters are considerably less obscene than the act they depict.
While on the subject of obscene images, in Canada it is illegal to sell a package of cigarettes that is not covered in images of equal aesthetic obscenity (even the Huffington Post thinks they’re horrifying) to those of gory aborted babies. This is done, apparently because the government of Canada wants to “horrify smokers into not smoking” and using gory photographs is a good way to do it; if children see them, so much the better.
When it comes to applying the same tactics to horrifying mothers and doctors into not aborting, the opposite rules seem to apply.
This must be because, on the scale of Canuck-confused societal evils, killing unborn babies is a mere peccadillo while smoking is the foremost scourge of our age.
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Harebrained pro-abortionists
Rather than condemning something that is done routinely, and for no particularly good reason, to unborn babies – killing them – abortion enthusiasts are fretting about something that is less likely to occur than being struck by lightning seven times in a row: being shot at any time.
That must be why they are recommending defending themselves with deadly force only if really necessary:
h/t: Jill Stanek
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Occupiers throw condoms at Catholic school girls
From here:
A group of Occupy Wall Street protesters disrupted a Right to Life rally and threw condoms on Catholic school girls inside the Rhode Island state capitol building.
Barth Bracy, executive director of Rhode Island Right to Life, said their rally had to be cut short after the Occupiers began screaming and refused to allow a Catholic priest to deliver a prayer.
“This is their idea of civil speech but we believe it’s an outrage,” Bracy told Fox News & Commentary “They started heckling, chanting and blowing whistles. They shouted down a priest.”
The modern condom was an invention of Julius Fromm, a Jew who lived in Germany. His invention was seized by the Nazis: you can read about it in the illuminating book, The Great Rubber Robbery: How Julius Fromm’s Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis.
There is nothing new under the sun: Nazis have once more seized condoms, this time to use as missiles aimed at Catholics trying to prevent the murdering of unborn babies.
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Linda Gibbons spends 3 months in jail on outdated injunction
Linda Gibbons, a 63 year old great grandmother has just spent three months in jail for silently protesting outside the Morgentaler abortion clinic.
The arrest was for violating a court injunction designed to prevent her protest – except the injunction was invalid because it was out of date.
So while a harmless little old lady is illegally incarcerated for three months because she protested the killing of unborn babies, an assortment of degenerate yahoos are allowed to break numerous bye-laws by camping in a Toronto park to protest capitalism, all the while being enthusiastically cheered on by Church, union and batty journalists. That’s called social justice in this funny old world.
From here:
After three months in prison, Linda Gibbons was found not guilty on a charge of disobeying a court order and released from custody to the hugs of supporters in a downtown Toronto courtroom Friday afternoon. Justice Alphonse T. Lacavera determined Sheriff Peter Krause improperly read the text of an outdated injunction when he directed that she be arrested outside the Morgentaler Clinic (known corporately as “Lexogest Inc.”) abortion site this past August 4.
