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March for Life: where are the Anglican clergy?

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If you care to follow this twitter feed, you will glean some insight into what groups will be represented in today’s March for Life in Ottawa. A quick perusal reveals: CampgnLifeCoalition, MomsAgainstAbortion, Catholic Canada, Women of Grace, Right to Life, Archdiocese of TO, and even Liberal4life, not to mention Pro-Life Humanists.

Notable by its absence is a contingent of clergy from the Anglican Church of Canada; it can’t be an aversion to marches brought on, perhaps, by an outbreak of debilitating corns, since so many ACoC clergy are only too keen to march in the Toronto Pride Parade. The fact is, the Anglican Church of Canada is mysteriously silent on the issue of abortion. The church that tirelessly trumpets its commitment to prophetic social justice making is too fearful to take a stand on the sanctity of an unborn baby’s life; after all, it could be viewed as controversial.

Before you ask, no I’m not there, either; my excuse is I have a lawsuit to pay for.

Pro-life professor wants mercy for Kermit Gosnell

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From here:

Abortionist Kermit Gosnell is facing the death penalty if he is convicted of the murders for which he is being tried in Philadelphia. Surely, the heinous acts of which he stands accused are depraved. They probably meet the criteria for capital punishment under Pennsylvania law. However, in the event that Gosnell is convicted, which seems likely, I am asking my fellow pro-lifers around the country to join me in requesting that his life be spared.

No.

Richard Dawkins reckons a pig is more human than an unborn baby

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A recent tweet:

Dawkins tweet

By his own lights Dawkins has a point. In a naturalistic interpretation of the universe, pigs and people are simply different arrangements of atoms, molecules and DNA: there is nothing to say one is worth more than another unless the yardstick for measuring worth is complexity, in which case a human would win – but not a foetus.

Again, by Dawkins’ own Darwinian lights, a civilisation that aborts its young is liable to select itself out in the competition to survive. Liberals are industriously aborting themselves into oblivion, leaving Roman Catholics, Muslims and the Third World as a fitting epitaph to the anti-civilisation that Dawkins is helping create.

It’s just as well that Dawkins is wrong: a human from the time of conception is made in the image of God and is of infinitely more value than a pig. Even Richard Dawkins was made in God’s image – hard to believe, I know.

ACNA bishops to participate in March for Life

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It’s heartening to see that in the midst of a wilderness of Anglican indifference to abortion, there are fifteen bishops from the Anglican Church in North America willing to stand against it.

From here:

Fifteen Anglican bishops, including the Archbishop Robert Duncan, are slated to join Anglicans for Life and thousands of others from across the nation on Friday, January 25, 2013, in Washington, D.C. for the 40th Annual March for Life. The Anglican bishops will start the day in prayer by attending the ecumenical service at Constitution Hall (1776 D Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.) called the National Memorial for the Preborn and their Mothers and Fathers.

“I am honored to stand, along with my fellow bishops of the Anglican Church in North America, in recognition of the millions lost through abortion and to demonstrate our commitment to uphold the sanctity of life for all of God’s children,” said Archbishop Robert Duncan.

“The Anglican Church in North America has a deep commitment to the sanctity of life,” said Bishop John Guernsey of the Anglican Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic.  “Our hope is that the presence of so many of our bishops for the March for Life this year will help spur the Church to even greater support for the sanctity of human life.”

Happy 40th anniversary, 55 million dead babies

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Mehcad Brooks who, apparently, acts in  “Necessary Roughness” and “True Blood”, toasts the 40th anniversary Roe v. Wade – with all the sincerity of an over-dressed pimp.

He does quite a bit of grunting at the end of the video, seemingly overcome by the heady aphrodisiac of contemplating 55 million murdered babies.

Abortion in Canada

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Here are Canada’s 2009 abortion statistics published by the National Post in graph form – click on it for a full sized image.

As Peter Hitches noted:

Those who wonder what they would have done if they had lived at the time of some terrible injustice now know the answer. We do live in such a time. And we do nothing.

Nowhere does this apply more than Canada. Canada has no law limiting abortion no matter how well developed the baby or how flimsy the excuse. Abortion is used as birth control, girls are aborted because they are not boys, a twin is aborted because two babies are too many; babies are aborted because they cost money to bring up, because they interfere with careers and because they just get in the way.

All political parties are afraid to discuss abortion; other than the Roman Catholic church, mainline denominations are too dominated by feminists and their wimpish male sympathisers to protest and, apart from a few stalwart exceptions, Canada’s citizens follow the zeitgeist like mindless, bleating sheep.

 

Kate Middleton is with foetus

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The New York Daily News used an expression that isn’t seen much these days: “with child”. The reason it isn’t is because we have become a society of casual aborters; we abort for convenience, birth control, greed – we don’t want to pay to raise a child -, selfishness, hedonism and solipsistic self-absorption.

Ideas are formed through language: we are reluctant to use language that might make us question our hell-bent determination to kill our unborn children and abort ourselves into extinction.

Good for the New York Daily News for swimming against the tide:

In recent days, Kate gave no sign of being with child as she kept up a busy schedule of royal appearances.

There is an abortion law in Canada after all

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Unfortunately it is not a law that protects unborn babies: in Canada, an unborn baby can be aborted at any stage in a woman’s pregnancy.

There are laws, though, that protect the fragile sensibilities of abortion clinics and their clientele by enforcing a buffer zone around the clinic preventing pro-life demonstrators holding up signs or engaging in the ultimate act of civil disobedience: praying.

Hence, Linda Gibbons – who seems determined to illustrate Thoreau’s idea that under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison  – was once again arrested for carrying a sign with a picture of a baby.

To make sure the 63-year-old grandmother doesn’t make a break for it and go sprinting off down Hillsdale Avenue, leaping over cars and knocking down innocent pedestrians, four brave police officers seize, subdue and handcuff her before bundling her into a waiting car.

The NDP is afraid to discuss abortion

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Canada has no law limiting abortion – none at all. It is legal to murder a full-term baby while it is still in the womb and illegal to murder it five minutes later when it is outside of the womb. Jason Kenney, conservative immigration minister, is supporting a motion that would require parliament to study scientific evidence that could help us decide when human life begins.

The NDP, the party that would have us believe it defends the weakest in society, instead, champions a woman’s right to choose – to kill the weakest of the weak: her baby. Moreover, the NDP wants to suppress any discussion on the issue.

Evidently the NDP is not so sure of its position that it is willing to subject it to scrutiny. The reason is that, in their heart of hearts, everyone – even NDP politicians – knows that abortion is murder and the only reason for it being legal is that we are a society so given over to self-absorption, so immersed in narcissism, so solipsistic, we are willing to sacrifice our own children on the altar of hedonistic self-interest: much as ancient pagans burned their offspring as a propitiation to Moloch.

In fairness to the NDP – not that they would reciprocate – Harper and the entire liberal party are just as bad.

From here:

OTTAWA — The NDP hammered Immigration Minister Jason Kenney Tuesday after the cabinet minister said he will support a motion calling for a discussion about “when life begins.”

NDP status of women critic MP Niki Ashton says Kenney’s motives for supporting Tory MP Stephen Woodworth’s motion are dubious.

“The question here is why he is choosing to stand up in opposition to his government’s wishes on a motion that is so fundamental to women’s rights,” Ashton said

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However, Ashton and her caucus colleague Francoise Boivin say the motion should have been smacked down before it reached the Commons because it challenges a woman’s right to choose.

 

Ontario government is keeping abortion statistics secret

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From here:

Judging by the explanation for its decision to restrict public access to abortion figures, Ontario’s government should now be preparing a lengthy list of other statistics that are too dangerous to be shared with the public.

Questioned as to why it had begun making it harder to obtain figures related to the number of abortions performed in the province, a practice that has been increasingly evident to researchers for some time, the provincial Ministry of Health responded in a statement to the National Post: “Records relating to abortion services are highly sensitive and that is why a decision was made to exempt these records.”

The exemption referred to is an amendment last year to Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). The act is intended to “increase the financial accountability of organizations in the broader public sector,” in part by making statistics publicly available. Abortion figures are excluded from the act.

Why? Well, because they’re “sensitive.”

If abortion is merely the expulsion of a group of cells from a woman’s womb, there is really no reason to conceal the number of expulsions.

If abortion is the terminating of a person’s life, then there should be a law against it.

The Ontario government can’t have it both ways: either publish the figures or have an honest parliamentary debate on limiting abortion – I would like it gone, but let’s start with “limiting”.