World Views

A Canadian Conundrum

The Canadian Institute for Health Information released statistics that reported 17 babies were born alive following botched abortion procedures of second and third trimester babies in 2025. Canadian Criminal law (s223) states that "any infant born alive, under any circumstance, is a legal person," and therefore that infant is required to receive medical care. These babies were born in the  Alberta Provincial Health System and thus were not only entitled to receive care but were required by law to have that care. Unfortunately this is not what happened. According to a opinion piece for the Western Standard written by Richard Dur, the executive director of Prolife Alberta, these infants were left to die. What exactly does it mean to be, "left to die?" I'll tell you, and it's beyond inhumane. These infants are abandoned to a cold room until they expire, no fluids, no nutrition, no incubator, no blanket, no mothers heartbeat or familiar scent to comfort them, NOTHING! This process may last several hours to days. Doctors are encouraged to stop the heart of the baby in utero, prior to the procedure,so that chances of a live birth are not likely. In response to Robert Dur's article Alberta's Health minister, Adriana LaGrange said," As our law stands, any child who survives birth is a human being and deserves respect," and promised to look into allegations that laws were not being followed.

The response of Alberta's Health Minister is puzzleling to me in several ways. First, the acknowledgement that these allegations need to be "looked" into, is a bureaucratic side step if I ever saw it. These "allegations" are public record and are easily uncovered to be factual in nature. The police and the Canadian version of a DA need to be notified and a criminal investigation needs to be opened. Secondly, recognizing the fact that these children are human beings and a citizens of Canada, entitled to medical care and protection under the law, flies into the face of legalized abortion in the first place. What are these children in utero, are they non-humans until they travel down and out of the mother's birth canal? Or even more absurd, do they only become human beings by surviving the deadly gauntlet of an abortion procedure? What are these babies called growing in the wombs of women who want them? So the only difference is if you want your child they are human beings, but if you don't want them they are non-human and can be aborted, but they magically become human again only if they survive an abortion procedure.

I'm not here to throw rocks at the Canadian's lack of a moral compass as we are equally guilty of killing our own unborn. Canada as well as America have weakened or lost the Christian Worldview that has been the bulwark of the rise and triumph of Western Civilization for over a 1000 years. It is what has made America great. If we don't reclaim it we will fall and fall hard.

The Sticky Wicket That Abortion Has Become for the 2024 Election

The aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections has had Republican politicians scrambling to rebrand themselves and the definition of what it means to be Pro-Life. When the "red tsunami" the GOP predicted, turned out to be a red ripple that barely rocked the boat, Republicans found themselves, reeling back on their heels and staggering from the election results. They won the majority in the House by the slimmest of margins and lost the majority in the Senate. What happened? Dobbs is what happened. The Supreme Court overturned Roe and along with it with the erroneous "woman's constitutional right" to have an abortion, and returned the abortion issue back to individual states. The Democrats, however, turned a legal victory for the pro-life cause into a defeat by winning the narrative. It all began with the leak from the Supreme Court and then the left's spin machine went to work branding the right as the ones who are extreme and adroitly incited and stoked fears amongst women voters. Once again Republicans found themselves flat footed and unprepared to meet the challenge. Make no mistake about it Democrats will make this their biggest campaign issue because it's the only winning issue they have and here's why they have the edge.

Public opinion has swung to pro-choice, according to Pew, 61% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Interestingly 60% of Republicans say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases. By contrast 80% of Democrats say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Views on abortion by age among adults under 30 (74%) say abortion should be legal. This is perhaps the most distressing statistic of all because we are losing the future. What is being done to turn the hearts and minds of our young to value life? If you break down by religious affiliation, 74% of white evangelicals do not support abortion but that still leaves 26% who do. Surprisingly, only 56% of Catholics are pro-life. Clearly the Church is not doing its job very well. Once our children enter the public school system from K through 12 and beyond, we are churning out uneducated, indoctrinated, secular progressives. This is what we are up against and it won't be turned around over night. We need to take a long term approach to turning this around, after all, it took 50 years to overturn Roe. Our main focus should not be winning over the hearts and minds of the 61% who are entrenched in their beliefs, but to focus on winning over future generations. (a topic for another time)

So what about the here and now? I am extremely disappointed in the capitulation of our so called pro-life candidates. A non-profit research group aligned with Mitch McConnell, One Nation, found that 71% of suburban women disagree with the Dobbs decision. Translate that to: Republicans collective geese are being roasted in the burbs, and they are reacting to it, too little, too late. Stick a fork in it, it's done and it will be served up in the 2024 election for lunch. The Republican Primary debate was very revealing on the capitulation by candidates. "Stalwart" pro-lifers, Mike Pence and Tim Scott support a 15 week ban on abortion. Did you know that 93% of all abortions occur on or before 13 weeks? This is a not a pro-life stance at all! It is a compromise with death and the left. Here's a statistic for you, Republicans, almost 100% of all abortions lead to the death of an innocent life. Trump, Mikki Haley, and DeSantis are no better. Haley is for compromise, both Trump and DeSantis are evasive, however, DeSantis has signed a six week abortion ban in Florida. Nikki Haley says we must find a consensus. Here's the kicker, 24% of Republican women now consider themselves to be pro-choice! We are playing to consolidate our own base and by capitulating on this issue we have lost the moral high ground. A sticky wicket indeed, for Republicans.

Good and Truth Allows for the Beautiful

Good is, that God made us male and female. Truth is that, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall become one flesh." Beauty only can come about when there is good and truth.

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