Archive for January, 2008
It beats the barely-there kind
Forgive me for wallowing in the shallow end of the pool, but it is bridal season and besides, I have good news. It appears Elizabethan is back in style, at least when it comes to bridal gowns. I think it’s cool. (Way better than news that Posh Spice posed naked for a skin-cancer campaign [...]
Read More..>>I’d hate to see what a real taboo looks like
The Ottawa Citizen has a news story on Henry Morgentaler that is not particularly remarkable except for this magnificent little pearl: No longer a taboo, abortion services are openly listed on the Internet. While getting an abortion carries less stigma today, none of the women who spoke about undergoing the procedure wanted their names published [...]
Read More..>>Freedom to discuss the “choice”
Andrea and I have an op-ed in today’s Ottawa Citizen. It’s also posted here. [cross-posted to PWPL]
Read More..>>So cool
There are rumous Angelina Jolie is pregnant again, perhaps with twins. I have no idea whether to believe this or not, but one thing I know for sure: I find the couple’s ambition to raise a large family awfully cool. Not that we all should aim for our very own soccer team, but hey, if [...]
Read More..>>Yes!! Thank you!
Lorne Gunter has a fine piece in today’s National Post about pro-life clubs on campus and how difficult life can be for them. The open-minded and tolerant, we are now discovering, are only open-minded and tolerant of opinions they already agree with. The same is happening all over the United States, as Evan Maloney has [...]
Read More..>>I know, I know
I should go see Juno. Look at the Oscar nominations it received. Yay! [cross-posted to PWPL]
Read More..>>I guess we might one day call it progress
Sort of. Saudi Arabia is to lift its ban on women drivers in an attempt to stem a rising suffragette-style movement in the deeply conservative state. Government officials have confirmed the landmark decision and plan to issue a decree by the end of the year. The move is designed to forestall campaigns for greater freedom [...]
Read More..>>Why I don’t like feminists
Well, some of them anyway. America’s favourite television presenter is paying a painful price for her intervention in the US presidential campaign last month. Oprah Winfrey has been dubbed a “traitor” by some of her female fans for supporting Barack Obama instead of Hillary Clinton. Winfrey’s website, Oprah.com, has been flooded with a barrage of [...]
Read More..>>Please tell me this isn’t happening
Don’t get me wrong: As a rule I’d rather pregnant teens kept their babies instead of going for abortions. But really, I’d much rather teens didn’t have to deal with such issues through the good old-fashioned trick of not getting pregnant in the first place. I didn’t use to think that made me a weirdo. Now [...]
Read More..>>Gosh, that’s still a lot…
U.S. Abortion Rate Falls to Lowest Level in Decades: The abortion rate for 2005 was 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44. In comparison, the rate was 29.3 abortions per 1,000 women in 1981, 21.3 abortions per 1,000 women in 2000, and 19.7 abortions per 1,000 women in 2004. The report says there [...]
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