PARENTING FREEDOM

carol | June 3, 2010

Chinese hiding three million babies a year
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7787661/Chinese-hiding-three-million-babies-a-year.html

More abortion links from this week:

Women in Italy to be offered €4,500 to not have abortions
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7142150.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093

Statistics Canada Predicts Seniors Will Soon Outnumber Children
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/may/10052704.html

Frozen human embryos ‘not life forms’: S.Korean court
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.0648a56e07bd726aca5687bec87a9ba3.a81&show_article=1

Ethicist Shatters Myth of ‘Virtually No’ Canadian Late-Term Abortions
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10060202.html

“It’s known that at least 400 post-viability abortions take place in Canada each year and the actual number is most probably more than twice that.”

“Somerville recounts that she had been professionally consulted on two late-term abortions, one at 34 weeks and another at 32 weeks, both of which were carried out. In the latter case, she said, the child’s married parents ‘did not want to have a ‘defective child’ – the baby had a cleft palate (a relatively minor physical deformity that can be largely corrected with surgery).’”

Protest the Pill Day ’10 – The Pill Kills the Environment (Saturday, June 5, 2010)
http://www.thepillkills.com/

Pray for Nancy Pelosi
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2010/06/01/pray-for-nancy-pelosi/

Nancy Pelosi on Abortion, Democratic Representative (CA-8)
http://www.ontheissues.org/ca/Nancy_Pelosi_Abortion.htm

3 Namibian women with HIV say they were sterilized
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hCqC0PlFgpn8zyCcpuCfLaQpXpYwD9G33GI00

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carol | May 16, 2010

Why Is Breast Milk Best? It’s All in the Genes
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100512172342.htm

For Comfort, Mom’s Voice Works as Well as a Hug
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100511201730.htm

Babies know the difference between good and evil at six months, study reveals
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1275574/Babies-know-difference-good-evil-months-study-reveals.html

Toddlers and TV: Early Exposure Has Negative and Long-Term Impact
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100503161229.htm

Study: 1 in 7 U.S. Babies Born to Moms 35+
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/06/health/main6465326.shtml

The Pill at 50: Unhappy Un-Birthday
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/05/09/the-pill-at-50-unhappy-un-birthday/

Flu vaccination ban goes national after fever, convulsions in children
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/flu-vaccination-ban-goes-national-after-fever-convulsions-in-children-20100423-tglp.html

U.S. has 71 million unused flu vaccine doses
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN0318959620100503

Proposed Law in Mexico Would Send Doctors Who Don’t Suggest Abortion to Jail
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/29/proposed-law-mexico-send-doctors-dont-suggest-abortion-jail/?test=latestnews

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carol | May 14, 2010

Video: Sarah Palin’s Keynote at Susan B. Anthony Celebration of Life Breakfast
http://www.therightscoop.com/video-sarah-palins-keynote-at-susan-b-anthony-celebration-of-life-breakfast/

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carol | May 11, 2010

Britain’s hidden gendercide: How Britain’s Asians are copying Indian cousins and aborting girls
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1276902/Britains-hidden-gendercide-How-Britains-Asians-copying-Indian-cousins-aborting-girls.html#ixzz0ncSwhsPD

“For the hospital sonographer, it’s just another routine 20-week ultrasound scan. The baby is developing perfectly and, helpfully, is lying in the right position to make identification of its gender straightforward. ‘Would you like to know the sex?’ she asks. The anxious-looking Indian woman who has been staring so intently at the monitor, smiles nervously. ‘Oh yes, please,’ she says, her slight Midlands accent betraying the fact that she was born in Britain.”

“‘Well, you’re having a little girl. Isn’t that lovely?’ If the sonographer had been a little less tired, she might have noticed the slight hesitation before her patient’s reply, the fleeting look of desperate disappointment that crossed her face. But both are gone in a split second. ‘Oh yes, wonderful news, my husband will be pleased.’”

“But the woman is lying – just as hundreds of other British women of Indian origin do every year. Their husbands certainly won’t be pleased by news of another daughter and nor, more often than not, are they…”

“What was it daadi (grandmother) used to say? Bringing up a baby girl is like watering a neighbour’s garden. What her grandmother meant, of course, is that it’s an absolute waste of time and money.”

“As she straightens her clothing and walks out of the hospital, the woman shudders, knowing full well what lies ahead. The long flight to India, the noisy taxi ride through the crowded Delhi streets to the clinic, and the pain and horror of a late abortion. But her husband was adamant; they simply could not afford another daughter…”

“And so, ten days later and despite the fact that abortion on the grounds of gender is technically illegal in India, the life of yet another British Indian baby girl ends on the bloodied operating table of a Delhi abortion clinic before it has even begun. She is killed simply for being a girl…”

“Traditionally, unwanted girl babies are fed opium and left to die; others, I’m afraid, meet far nastier ends as India’s poor do what they have been doing since before the Raj – murdering their unwanted daughters…”

“Estimates vary as to how many Indian women are now ‘missing’ from the population, but it’s thought to be somewhere between ten and 35million over the past 20 years. Female foeticide, gendercide – call it what you will – it’s a terrible and chilling statistic…”

“A British-Indian friend of mine recently gave birth to a daughter and while there was a younger generation of Indian women like me, keen to celebrate the arrival, we were outnumbered by an older generation of female cousins and aunts, some of whom were in tears at the wretched fate that had befallen my friend. It was as though someone had died, not just been born…”

“They pass on to the next generation what they have learned from bitter experience: that they are subservient to men; their usually loveless marriages will be arranged for them; and the size of their dowry matters more than their education…”

“Recently, I was in Mumbai, the heart of India’s booming stock market, and yet in this bustling, metropolitan city the bodies of newborn baby girls were still being washed up on the beach…”

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carol | April 21, 2010

Contraceptive Pill Linked to AIDS
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/2256513688.html

“‘Hormonal contraceptives — the oral pill and Depo-Provera — increase almost all known risk factors for HIV, from upping a woman’s risk of infection, to increasing the replication of the HIV virus, to speeding the debilitating and deadly progression of the disease…’”

“‘How many African women have died because their ‘free’ birth control pills cost them their lives?’”

The Pill’s Deadly Affair with HIV/AIDS
http://pop.org/201004201199/the-pills-deadly-affair-with-hivaids

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carol | April 16, 2010

Economist: Contraceptive Culture Shifts Economic Power away from Women
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10041510.html

NOTE: I removed the link about Sarah at her request.

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carol | April 16, 2010

I was very surprised and annoyed to see swim suits with bra padding for my eight-year-old when we shopped for a swim suit last weekend. Then these articles came out this week:

Department Store Pulls Padded Bikini Bras for Kids
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,590954,00.html?test=latestnews

Primark shamed into axing padded bikinis for girls of 7 after being accused of ‘disgraceful’ sexualisation of children
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1265873/Primark-withdraws-padded-bikinis-7-year-olds.html#ixzz0lGe1h05Q

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carol | April 16, 2010

Unshaven Women: Free Spirits or Unkempt?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/fashion/15skin.html?hpw

“‘Women have a measure of freedom that they aren’t exercising.’”

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carol | April 9, 2010

Killed by the Pill? Bride-to-be dies from blood clot after taking contraceptive for 10 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1264775/Fiancee-dies-DVT-clot-taking-contraceptive-pill-10-years.html#ixzz0kbVxWbvS

The Pill Hurts and Kills Women
http://parentingfreedom.com/2009/06/05/the-pill-hurts-and-kills-women/

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carol | April 2, 2010

Smoking Is Dumb: Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs, Study Finds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100401151746.htm

No Sex Please, I’m Neal McDonough…
http://www.deadline.com/2010/03/no-sex-please-im-neal-mcdonough/

Egypt sex selection clinics engender controversy
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.e48dcd2d7eded7c7afce6bcae05990d1.311&show_article=1

Christian faith: Calvinism is back
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0327/Christian-faith-Calvinism-is-back

Mayim Bialik Blossoms Into a Real-Life Scientist
http://www.parentdish.com/2010/03/31/mayim-bialik-blossoms-into-a-real-life-scientist/

The Expendables Trailer [Updated August 2010: Movie rated 18+ with brutal violence - not for me.]

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carol | March 31, 2010

Glenn Beck Tells Pro-Lifers: ‘There is a Profound Evil Coming our Way’
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/mar/10033004.html

“‘There is a profound evil coming our way,’ Beck told the pro-life crowd, ‘if we don’t draw a line in the sand…’”

“‘Pay attention to what’s happening!’ Beck stated, referencing the fact that abortion is now considered ‘health care’ by many in Washington. ‘There are people out there who want to wipe other people out…’”

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carol | March 25, 2010

Almost a quarter of Republicans think Obama ‘may be the Antichrist’ as 14 states sue over healthcare reforms
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1260195/U-S-healthcare-reform-14-rebel-states-sue.html#ixzz0jDK1i7mJ

Health Care Law Signals US Empire Decline?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/36013573

Been saying that myself…

France to ban veil says Nicolas Sarkozy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7516643/France-to-ban-veil-says-Nicolas-Sarkozy.html

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carol | March 25, 2010

There is another human being involved. It’s a baby. And there are only two ways it can come out. Dead or alive.

Do what you like with your own body, but don’t kill or harm the extra body inside. Since when does a woman’s body have double the amount of organs, or even male parts?

Abortion is an exploitation of women. Women are often coerced into having abortions. Women are being used by men and then violated with the abortion cover-up. Women have been deceived at the most basic level. The blood of their own children has been shed – by their own hands. Abortion does not help women.

EXPLOITATION – Abortion gives men the right to “use” women without consequences. Abortion exists so men can pursue a lifestyle of sexual irresponsibility without accountability.

COERCION – Men coerce women into believing that abortion is the only solution. Abortion provides an easy out for the man, certainly not for the woman.

DECEPTION – The woman is deliberately deceived about the abortion itself, its effects on her and on her living, growing child.

VIOLENCE – Abortion is a violent act against both the mother and the child.

CONTENT WARNING: Shows an actual abortion procedure.

http://herestheblood.com/

Hat Tip for video: http://www.jillstanek.com/-kingsborough-community-colleg.html

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carol | February 19, 2010

‘Right to abortion’ enslaves women, expert warns
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/right_to_abortion_enslaves_women_expert_warns/

“The “right to abortion” championed by feminists and abortion supporters ends up enslaving women because they are turned into instruments of sexual gratification…”

“The right to abortion is one of those legal notions thought to be “liberating” that actually jeopardizes women, putting them in a situation of profound inequality…”

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carol | February 13, 2010

Funny stuff.

French feminist warns green movement forcing women to stay at home
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7206627/French-feminist-warns-green-movement-forcing-women-to-stay-at-home.html

Green Wackos Forcing Women To Be Stay At Home Moms?
http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2010/02/11/green-wackos-forcing-women-to-be-stay-at-home-moms/

Who has more freedom? Stay-at-home mothers or working women? As a stay-at-home mother, I feel like I know what it means to be free.

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carol | February 9, 2010

Disclaimer: I am not into sports and don’t remember ever watching a second of any Super Bowl, but I was looking forward to seeing the Tim Tebow ad.

Focus on the Family’s Super Bowl commercial with Pam and Tim Tebow

I found the ad to be sweet, but anticlimactic since the network wouldn’t allow them to use any controversial terms. I believe it was worth every penny due to the tremendous amount of publicity before and after the Super Bowl. Hear the rest of the story here: http://www.focusonthefamily.com/nsc/box/video_tebow.aspx

THE JOURNEY TO LIFE

Accurate on when life begins… Family bed… Pro-Family

Parisian Love

K-I-S-S-I-N-G
First comes love.
Then comes marriage.
Then they come with a baby carriage.

Another pro-life/pro-family moment was captured with the pictures of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and his son Baylen:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/gallery/Super-Bowl-XLIV-Postgame-Gallery-020710#sport=NFL&photo=10874661

http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20100207/ARTICLES/100209295/1211?Title=Brees-Culmination-of-belief-and-faith-

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carol | October 12, 2009

View’ Guest Co-Host: Obama’s Abortion Position Should Disqualify Him From Nobel
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-sargent/2009/10/12/view-guest-co-host-obamas-abortion-position-should-disqualify-him-nobe

“The news is, because I’ve never come on ‘The View,’ as Joy knows, without announcing a pregnancy. And I am having a sixth child and I’m three months pregnant.” Rachel Campos-Duffy

Congratulations on your sixth baby, Rachel!

“I think of Mother Teresa and Mother Teresa said that we wouldn’t have world peace until we ended abortion and I think personally, for me, that it’s Obama’s radical abortion position that makes him the least qualified for the prize.” Rachel Campos-Duffy

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carol | October 4, 2009

Raphael Alexander: Why people like Palin

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/10/02/raphael-alexander-why-people-like-palin.aspx

Sarah Palin: “…So alluring to millions of Americans, and a fair share of Canadians…”

“Sarah Palin is a classic populist politician. What makes her so popular is her very nature. She is the definition of ‘grassroots‘, a working mother who successfully entered politics at the municipal level and worked her way up to the governorship. She didn’t manage this by impressing people with her five different institutions of education, or how many books she had written on Russian foreign policy. No, she managed it because she inspired Americans who felt that Sarah was ‘one of them’…”

“For every housewife who dreamed of being more, but had to contend with the responsibilities of raising a family, Palin inspires a strange kind of anti-feminism. There is a perceptible sense of pride that one can be “just average”, with all of the same human failings and shortcomings as everybody else. Of course Palin isn’t just your average woman, since her attraction is based on the conglomeration of attitude, personality, and prerogative…”

“Her supporters continues among the same people who aren’t going anywhere soon: the average American with 2 cars, and 3 or more kids, football practice during the week, hunting and fishing on the weekends, and the ‘down home’ family values that seem to say ‘we’re not perfect, but we’re trying’. You can’t buy that kind of ‘in’ with the people. It has to come naturally, and that’s why Sarah Palin fits the bill.”

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