This is a great video I wanted to highlight from Feminists for Life:
Definitely a must for anyone interested in the abortion debate!
Monday, 6 February 2012
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Send a Thank You to Komen for Defunding PP!
"Please stop what you are doing right now and write to news@komen.org and say (in English please): “Thanks for defunding Planned Parenthood!” That is all you have to say! And it will make a huge difference."
Seriously, do this now! They need all the encouragement and support they can get, otherwise they could change their minds. We need to show the world that there are plenty of women (and men) out there who are FOR this and do not believe with will adversely affect women's health.
Thank y'all :) And get everyone you know to send a thank-you e-mail, or post on their Facebook account (or BOTH!) as well!
Seriously, do this now! They need all the encouragement and support they can get, otherwise they could change their minds. We need to show the world that there are plenty of women (and men) out there who are FOR this and do not believe with will adversely affect women's health.
Thank y'all :) And get everyone you know to send a thank-you e-mail, or post on their Facebook account (or BOTH!) as well!
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Question of the MONTH
So this Question of the Week is going to be Question of the Month instead!
This month's poll is about the dismal media coverage of the pro-life movement. I obviously have a bias though, and I want to know what you think! Also, how do you think we can get our views out there in the media? How do we get newspapers and congress to notices hundreds of thousands of protestors instead of ignoring the single biggest protest that happens every single year?
This month's poll is about the dismal media coverage of the pro-life movement. I obviously have a bias though, and I want to know what you think! Also, how do you think we can get our views out there in the media? How do we get newspapers and congress to notices hundreds of thousands of protestors instead of ignoring the single biggest protest that happens every single year?
March for Life 2012 USA
Amazing video by Marc at BadCatholic gives testimony from a variety of young pro-lifers at this year's March for Life in the USA.
Amazing Quote: "Here is the problem, undressed: If human embryonic life is morally worthy of protection, we have permitted sixty million murders under our watch. Faced with this prospect, many of us - maybe even most - flee from the facts. We deny that the living human embryo is "truly" or "fully" human life." From MCCL Blog
Thursday, 19 January 2012
March for Life 2012 (USA)
Great video calling for action :) If you're in the US, take part!
note: the above link, in addition to linking you to a sweet March for Life video, also takes you to a blog I recently discovered, Bad Catholic, and I absolutely love it. Any Catholics out there, have fun reading through his stuff, its awesome!!
note: the above link, in addition to linking you to a sweet March for Life video, also takes you to a blog I recently discovered, Bad Catholic, and I absolutely love it. Any Catholics out there, have fun reading through his stuff, its awesome!!
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Liberals include abortion as part of their platform
Well, looks like I have no party to vote for any more. LifeSiteNews explains how the liberal party has decided to include abortion as a key strategy in their rebuilding process, after the fiasco that was the last federal election. Well, definitely never voting for them again.
Interesting side note: they also decided to support the legalization of marijuana. I have no opinion on pot being legal or illegal because I just don't really care, as long as its kept away from kids, but this is sure to get a lot of my peers to vote liberal.
Interesting side note: they also decided to support the legalization of marijuana. I have no opinion on pot being legal or illegal because I just don't really care, as long as its kept away from kids, but this is sure to get a lot of my peers to vote liberal.
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Comments on Abortion Twitter Conversations
I've been wanting to go through some abortion twitter conversations for awhile now, and I've finally gotten around to it. Now, none of the statements some of these pro-choicers make are particularly strong arguments for abortion, but I just had to deal with some of these oft-repeated ideas. Hopefully someday soon no one will be repeating them anymore, because honestly pro-choicers, you do our job for us when you talk like this. Thanks so much ;)
Now lets start out with one of the most ignorant statements I've ever read:
Ohhh scary. I'm so sad that someone as rude and as frightened of opposing opinions won't be following pro-lifers on Twitter. Actually, I think it's quite pathetic that he or she advertises this fact. To willfully be ignorant of opposing ideas, and to brag about that fact in a day and age where knowledge is so valued, is quite disappointing.
@facepalm333 And while #prolife men should shut up and GTFO of the argument, prolife women should be ashamed for selling out their gender
Yes, I'm SO ashamed of trying to change our society's disgust with pregnancy and fertility (things that are still today, associated mostly with femininity! oh, the shame!), and to stop the horrific, sexist, and discriminatory practice which disproportionately end the lives of pre-born females and handicapped children. Even though I'm not the one trying to justify the killing of pre-born girls and boys, I'm apparently the one who's sold out my gender. To whome, I wonder?
When talking about the beginning of life versus the whole life, this is what some pro-choicers have to say:
@MateoDHoffman I'm not comparing "it to a draft of a car". I'm pointing out the problem with confusing "beginning of X" and "X".
I'm afraid basic mathematics and physics pretty much debunks your entire argument since most mathematical frameworks take "the beginning of x", xo, to be a part of the set of {x} as kind of a given - this is such an obvious given that I have never, in all of my years studying math and physics at the university and post-grad level, have had to provide a proof to demonstrate this. Even semantically, the fact that you are talking about the beginning of something is based on the assumption that you are still talking about that something. Hard to grasp, I know.
This conversation is also hysterical. When a pro-lifer asserts that a human being develops linearly from conception onwards, just claim that they are using circular reasoning and unsupported fact:
@RealtinConnor A developing human develops from conception into more advanced stages of human, but remains human all along. #prolife
@MateoDHoffman I like #prolife circular reasoning & its penchant for calling its unsupported opinion "fact"! Says a lot! #prochoice
I don't really know what to say here, except clearly the pro-choicer is grasping at straws. Its a basic fact that human development starts at conception. Any other point along the development chain, and that human has existed at a previous point in time. For some reason though, this does not equate to human life for pro-choicers. Who's using odd reasoning now?
The best response to "when life begins" that I've seen is this one:
@LettingSmokeOut @365days4choice @DaranskiConnell Life began billions of years ago. Wanna keep swinging at air? #prolife #prochoice
Really. Wow. I think it is quite obvious that the pro-lifer was talking about individual, human lives. For instance, my life began at conception. Pretty sure I haven't been alive for billions of years. Way to be obtuse.
Now, this is my favourite conversation, because it just shows how ridiculous, rude, and close-minded some pro-choicers are:
@PinkyDChic So your chicken farmer lady is a poultry abortionist! #Prolife See how dumb that sounds? #Prochoice is Prolife.
Yes, we definitely see how dumb that sounds. Thank goodness all the pro-choicers I personally know and interact with don't talk like this, otherwise I would never have bothered to take the time to really research my beliefs, because what the heck is the point of learning more about abortion when this is the argument that pro-choicers come up with! And they clearly think that they are so clever and sarcastic. Now, if they were arguing against vegetarianism they might have a bit of a point. However, I'm not a vegetarian. Neither are many pro-lifers. We all, however, are not cannibals, as the majority of humans are not, so their argument pretty much breaks down at the analogy.
Now lets start out with one of the most ignorant statements I've ever read:
facepalm333 facepalm333
I don't care if you're an atheist, rationalist, fucking queen of the fairies, if you're pro-life, I unfollow. B'bye.
Ohhh scary. I'm so sad that someone as rude and as frightened of opposing opinions won't be following pro-lifers on Twitter. Actually, I think it's quite pathetic that he or she advertises this fact. To willfully be ignorant of opposing ideas, and to brag about that fact in a day and age where knowledge is so valued, is quite disappointing.
Yes, I'm SO ashamed of trying to change our society's disgust with pregnancy and fertility (things that are still today, associated mostly with femininity! oh, the shame!), and to stop the horrific, sexist, and discriminatory practice which disproportionately end the lives of pre-born females and handicapped children. Even though I'm not the one trying to justify the killing of pre-born girls and boys, I'm apparently the one who's sold out my gender. To whome, I wonder?
When talking about the beginning of life versus the whole life, this is what some pro-choicers have to say:
I'm afraid basic mathematics and physics pretty much debunks your entire argument since most mathematical frameworks take "the beginning of x", xo, to be a part of the set of {x} as kind of a given - this is such an obvious given that I have never, in all of my years studying math and physics at the university and post-grad level, have had to provide a proof to demonstrate this. Even semantically, the fact that you are talking about the beginning of something is based on the assumption that you are still talking about that something. Hard to grasp, I know.
This conversation is also hysterical. When a pro-lifer asserts that a human being develops linearly from conception onwards, just claim that they are using circular reasoning and unsupported fact:
I don't really know what to say here, except clearly the pro-choicer is grasping at straws. Its a basic fact that human development starts at conception. Any other point along the development chain, and that human has existed at a previous point in time. For some reason though, this does not equate to human life for pro-choicers. Who's using odd reasoning now?
The best response to "when life begins" that I've seen is this one:
Really. Wow. I think it is quite obvious that the pro-lifer was talking about individual, human lives. For instance, my life began at conception. Pretty sure I haven't been alive for billions of years. Way to be obtuse.
Now, this is my favourite conversation, because it just shows how ridiculous, rude, and close-minded some pro-choicers are:
Yes, we definitely see how dumb that sounds. Thank goodness all the pro-choicers I personally know and interact with don't talk like this, otherwise I would never have bothered to take the time to really research my beliefs, because what the heck is the point of learning more about abortion when this is the argument that pro-choicers come up with! And they clearly think that they are so clever and sarcastic. Now, if they were arguing against vegetarianism they might have a bit of a point. However, I'm not a vegetarian. Neither are many pro-lifers. We all, however, are not cannibals, as the majority of humans are not, so their argument pretty much breaks down at the analogy.
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