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Define choice

05/31/2007 by Debra

Scrolling through Facebook groups I came across one called End Abortion Now!!! Your Mom Made A Choice!

What an interesting thought. My birth mother didn’t in fact make a choice. I am sure at fifteen years of age in a time when “unwed mothers” were sent “away” she may well have made the choice to abort.

Does that make me weep and moan and gnash my teeth? No! I do regret for her sake that there were people who made the choice to deny her the right to choose motherhood or not. [Read more…] about Define choice

Tag.. I’m it

05/31/2007 by Debra

Politics’n’Poetry has tagged me for the 8 things meme. (I’ll have to work on my running 😉 )

The rules are as follows:

• Each player creates a list of eight random personal facts/habits.
• At the end of your post, list eight people who you want to tag to also do this meme.
• People who are tagged will write their own list of eight personal facts/habits and, if they have a blog of their own, post these rules and their list.

2. I survived an attempted murder

3. Of all the variations I prefer CSI Las Vegas

4. I can’t stand flavoured coffees

5. I didn’t have a female best friend until I was 16

6. I still love to play on the swings

7. I didn’t get my drivers licence till I was in my 30’s

8. I love the smell of fresh air and sunshine on line dried clothes and have fond memories of my mom bringing in clothes off the line which were frozen stiff and could stand on their own.

I’m going to go against the meme and not name anyone, but if you’d like to do your eight let me know so I can link to you.

Unchained Melody

05/30/2007 by Debra

Full wording of the 1967 Abortion Act follows

How the church views women “Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.“.. Emma Goldman

Cardinal Keith O’Brien believes the 1967 Abortion Act is full of lies. As it is a document dealing with a woman’s legal right to seek medical treatment. One can only assume that to the Cardinal it is a lie that a woman has a right to seek medical treatment, that anyone has the right to save her life or that any woman catholic or not, has the right to “defy” the father church. [Read more…] about Unchained Melody

Step right up and win a kidney!

05/29/2007 by Debra

Endemol always looking for ways to dig deeper into the cesspool in the name of entertainment may have topped itself this go round.

The Big Donor Show has a 37 year old terminally ill woman decide who gets her kidneys. She will “make her choice based on the contestants’ history, profile and conversation with their family and friends.
Viewers will also be able to send in their advice by text message during the 80-minute show.”

Reality shows for exhibitionists and B list celebrities is bad enough, but this is a whole new level of low.

Dick Cheney’s Got a Gun

05/28/2007 by Debra

A perfect blend of cats, comedy and rock.

Freedom from Religion

05/28/2007 by Debra

True story: man kills wife, stabbing her in the neck 19 times with a steak knife, is convicted of first-degree murder and appeals on basis that she was unfaithful and, as a devout Muslim, he was protecting family honour.
Nice try, and maybe elsewhere in the world Adi Abdul Humaid might have been acquitted. But the United Arab Emirates citizen made the mistake of murdering Aysar Abbas in Ottawa in 1999 and, ultimately, the Ontario Court of Appeal rejected his appeal.
Superior Court Justice J.A. Doherty said that had Humaid killed his wife for religious beliefs, that alone would have been “a motive for murder.” But it was a moot point because Doherty didn’t buy Humaid’s new religious devotion and, in his 2006 ruling, concluded the story lacked credibility.
Nevertheless, the judge was concerned enough about the nature of the defence argument to write: “The alleged beliefs are premised on the notion that women are inferior to men and that violence against women is in some circumstances accepted, if not encouraged. These beliefs are antithetical to fundamental Canadian values, including gender equality.”