The best things about Canada are Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn.
Hey! Start your own list! : )
The best things about Canada are Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn.
Oh, c'mon...you can stink up the comments section better than that, can't you?
I agree about Mark Steyn being great for Canada...particularly since he doesn't live here and given the fact that most people who don't know him would mistake him for British.
If you go to Opinions Canada, you will see that the headline for your post is in BIG BOLD RED LETTERS. I think SUZYQUE has issues with you.
I don’t know if anybody reads it, I’ve had maybe three hits off the stupid thing, but you stand out like a freshly boiled Lobster Liberal.
She tries so hard in all the places.
Post editing, no html here, and she tries so hard in all the WRONG places.
Seriously, Dawg, do you think 2 million abortions is a good thing?
Do you think it's a good thing that abortion has become a method of birth control?
Do you think it's a good thing that some are aborting healthy girls because they would prefer a boy?
Do you think it's a good thing that many women have abortions because they think they have no other choice? Do you think it's a good thing because their husbands and boyfriends tell them they have no other choice--that they don't want the child and will not help raise it?
Do you really think abortion is a pro-woman? Or is it really pro the unfettered sexual appetites of men who can sow their wild oats with impunity, knowing that Morgentaler and his ilk will just vacuum those "seedlings" out of their latest sex partner's womb, relieving them of the responsibility to look after their offspring.
No consequences for men, but grievous ones for women. The breast cancer link to abortion/coupled with the use of birth control pills is real.
I bet if men were the ones who had to undergo abortions for unwanted pregancies, we'd see a whole different attitude towards the procedure. It would kinda go the way of men's birth control pills. Men decided they didn't like the hormone cocktail limiting their fertility so the idea got ditched.
It bothers me a great deal to see the glee expressed by so many of the male left-wing bloggers, the same bloggers who are quick to adopt vicious, misogynist slurs against women who disagree with them. Not saying you are guilty of this, but some of your fellow bloggers reek with anti-women hatred.
I fear for the future of human rights and especially the hard won freedoms that women have gained in the West. But abortion is not a human right, nor is it freeing for women. It is a bill of goods. It has taken away choice from women and forced women to betray their very natures to satisfy the appetites of predatory men.
This award is a sad day for Canada. A sad day for baby girls and their mothers.
Even those who don't want to return to the days of overly restrictive abortion laws and back alley abortions view abortion with a degree of sadness.
Not you?
Welcome, Deborah. I'm rather tickled by the chutzpah of a person who leaves an extended comment here, but deletes all mine at her place, as civil as they have been.
No matter.
I'll try to make a précis of what could be a fairly long response on my part. I'll take your questions in order.
1) I don't think abortion is good in itself, or bad. Denying women a choice is bad. If you folks would join us folks in pushing for lots more quality sex ed and freely available contraception, we just might get those numbers down.
2) See (1)
3) I do not approve of sex-selection as a reason for having an abortion. It's having terrible demographic effects in some other countries, notably India and (IIRC) China, for two.
4) I believe in choice, and I don't think a woman should be pressured into having either a baby or an abortion by boyfriends/husbands/lovers/family/neighbours. We all need to work, furthermore, to eliminate poverty, because, as we both know, economic factors sometimes makes choice moot.
5)I'm sure there are a number of slutty men around. That's why I'm pro-feminist. I believe that women are just as strong, just as moral, just as prudent and just as intelligent as men. I am sure that the attitudes of their lovers (if they are heterosexual) are factored in when it comes time to make love.
6) There is no "breast-cancer link." Please see my most recent post, "Anti-choice 'expertise'."
7) Like it or not, women end up getting pregnant, not men. But your hypothetical reminds me a bit of Flo Kennedy's: "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
I don't think there's a lot of woman-hatred on the Left. Whatever there is is dwarfed by the torrent of woman-hating muck on the Right. Don't even get me started on that one.
9)Abortion in itself isn't a human right: but the right to choose is. Control over one's own body is.
10)My personal views on abortion are really irrelevant. We both know that we are really discussing recriminalization, and I'm immovable on that.
By all means, feel free to respond.
Thanks for a long, civil response.
I don't recall ever getting a comment from you on my blog. My comments are moderated and I don't always check to see which ones are pending as I don't get a lot of comments in the first place.
Deborah
I've got one in your queue, Deborah.
(hint, hint).
Deborah:
I left a couple after the March 25 hearing. Neither appeared. No hard feelings, though.
I might add, this morning, that my feelings may be hardening after all. Two commenters at Deborah's place have accused me of deleting her post, which, as anyone with eyes can see, remains in this thread. I posted a comment to that effect, directing readers here.
Guess what?
Dr. D. - it wasn't an accusation - her comment simply wasn't there when I clicked the link. Must have been a technical glitch...
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