Opps: too many bills. Let's kill the kid

BMJ:

Second, we do not claim that after-birth abortions are good alternatives to abortion. Abortions at an early stage are the best option, for both psychological and physical reasons. However, if a disease has not been detected during the pregnancy, if something went wrong during the delivery, or if economical, social or psychological circumstances change such that taking care of the offspring becomes an unbearable burden on someone, then people should be given the chance of not being forced to do something they cannot afford.

Economical?

I'm old enough to remember when the NYTimes was leading the cheerleaders for "not treating" baby Jane Doe.

They won, but the kid continued to live, and the parents realized that the meningomyelocoel made caring for her difficult, so they finally allowed it to be fixed.



Last time the NYTimes bothered to check, she was 9 and doing well...

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2. UPDATE; 'Baby Jane Doe' Turns 9 This Year - New York Times

   www.nytimes.com/1992/05/17/nyregion/update-baby-jane-doe-turns-9...

   [May 17, 1992] The Long Island girl who became known as " Baby Jane Doe" during a bitter legal battle over her medical care following her birth in 1983, will observe her ...

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(by the way: We didn't fix these in Africa, 30 years ago, but some of the kids lived anyway too...it was lack of resources: no open heart surgery either)...but this was in a country where children died because the  gov't charged us a dollar for each dose of the brand new measles vaccine (which cost them five dollars a dose). we divided it into three doses (some physicians in Africa divided it into five doses) and asked the moms to pay ten cents for the shot. Some then couldn't afford it, or put off getting the shot, or in the case of one mom the husband refused to let her get shots for her kids so five of them died...

Addendum to this: We lost lots of kids from unsafe water, so arranged a grant to dig wells and supply village health workers.

Ah, but there were "pill ladies" giving out pills in every village. It's called priorities: just like here in the Philippines, where to please the UN and Obama, they will give out free birth control in gov't clinics, but not supply training to hilots who deliver one third of our ladies who can't afford trained midwives or afford to go to the gov't clinic.

men without chests and women without breasts

LINK

thoughtful essay about the deconstruction of gender, marriage etc. via propaganda, intellectual fads, and coercion against those who "sit athwart the rush of time and say no".

And the younger generation now see marriage as nothing big: Partnership fine, singleparents, fine, but why marry?

Sigh.

But the real problem is that the idea behind it is denying the body is important, by pretending women and men are interchangable in all things. When you posit a utopian idea as the basis of society, instead of reality, reality bites back. Women and men are not biologically the same, and until we manage to replace everyone with hermaphrodites, a society that denies this reality just won't stand very long.

Which is why "Gay marriage" and it's ilk is more about destroying tradition than in affirming it.

CSLewis has an essay on the loss of the ability to see deeply by a society of soundbites and easy answers: Men without chests.

In medical ethics, I once noted that we were in danger of losing our moral vocabulary to be even able to think about what we are doing.

So our children conceived by love are merely "embryos", destroying them is "contraception", and people with intellectual damage are "vegetables"...

Sigh.

the poor: As if they were a different species

this article is bookmarked for later reading, but it seems to equate helping the poor with institutional help of those who meet a criteria of poverty.

so much for all those nice Baptist ladies who bring over a cassarole for their sick neighbors.

and left out: The family. Here in the Philippines, the extended family is a major source of help for those with low incomes. In the city, the protestant church groups often replace the family as a grass roots way of hand ups and solidarity (whereas Catholics have nuns and priests etc. running institutions that teach and nurse etc).

But the main problem is that they discuss the "poor" as if they were a monolith.

Duh.

National rememberance day for those with handicaps who were killed

 Oh, not by Nazis, but by "loving" caretakers who saw them as useless burdens.

NDY Reports they will hold ceremonies on March 1.

And the link for their report on Quebec euthanasia is here.

The one I linked below was about a New Hampshire version of the bill.

Killing will be mandatory

LINK

The truly demonic nature of this bill—as a theologian I do not use that adjective lightly—is to be found, however, not only in its sanctification of suicide. It can be seen also in its attempt to force public institutions and healthcare personnel to become complicit in both suicide and murder, through a mandated process of cooperation with ministerial directives and demands for referral.
Let us be clear: Administering lethal dosages of medication, where the intended (rather than merely foreseen) effect is to end a life, is murder, just as shooting a “patient” is murder, even if he or she has requested it. Hence referral of the patient for such a procedure is complicity in murder, and as such a mortal sin.
This bill, however, will leave the conscientious objector subject to punitive sanctions, which shows that it has the character, not merely of seduction, but of coercion. Moreover, it will have the effect, over the long haul, of purging the medical profession and healthcare services of people with informed and functioning consciences, depriving us all of the basic presumption of integrity in healthcare.

GayCaswell links it to Quebec's activists who pushed abortion and helped destroy the Catholic church.

Canada would not have abortion if it was not for two people living in Quebec . Abortion was brought to us by a “Doctor” who was not really a doctor at all, but had 3 yrs. of medical school He never cured anyone of anything, delivered a baby or helped someone die peacefully. His entire fake medical career was spent killing pre- born Canadians especially Quebecois. His name was Henry Morgenthaler. He insisted that Prime Minister Trudeau who legalised abortion, homosexuality, contraception and divorce protect him from legal repercussions of running an illegal abortuary. Canada had legal abortion four years before Roe vs. Wade of the U.S.A. Quebec’s culture was based on The Family. La Grande Famille of 20 people was not uncommon. There was a large labour pool so businesses swarmed into Quebec. Churches were full, convents, semenaries and monasteries were full, Catholic schools were full, even hockey rinks were full of local talent of any age and ability. Today Quebec has the lowest birth rate of any province.French Canadians have less children than immigrants and are less likely to be married or stay married.. It is a greying population with less and less income earners to support an ever expanding governmental bureaucracy. Health care has essentially collapsed with no recourse to private health care and private insurance....

and they know the institution that stands in their way

 Because Catholicism is so entrenched in Quebec people who reject Christianity don’t just ignore the Church, the crosses, and the crucifix in government buildings or even around a person’s neck.. They have a drive to attack, and to destroy. A fellow immersion student and I walked down Fraserville in Riviere- du- Loup saying a rosary. When we passed the parti quebecois office the people inside acted like they were in the throws of an unwelcome exorcism. Premier Marois has a campaign to remove all public displays of religion on buildings, road, and persons. Why doesn’t she just get on with the business of government for today and leave people’s religion alone?

of course Mrs. Gay Caswell has been sued for libel for being a whistleblower on drug using politicians, and her school is being harassed.

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on the home front, Obama has told the president here to cool it and let china take over the South China sea.
Locals are mad, but as FilAm Fernandez at Belmont club writes: You get what you wished for.

he notes the decimation of the US by Obama's policies, and wryly links to the last of the legions.

Strategypage also has an article saying be careful what you ask for.

a lot of this is a cynical way to distract folks from corruption and pollution.

In this case, about the approaching danger of China going to war with Japan.

they say China is only asking for it's territory back, but that claim goes back a couple hundred years. It would be like Norway claiming they own Canada because of the Viking incursions.

and what really infuriates the Philippines is that some generals were allowed to state in the state run press that they also claim the Philippines.

So we are busy wasting money to buy arms to defend ourselves.

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related good news: Iraq must be getting safer, because the gov't is allowing local nurses to be recruited to work there.


and of course, no one here believes Obama would defend us against China.

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sigh

back on line.

But between the slow increase in attacks on the churches, and with Obamacare promoting promiscuity as good for you, excuse me if I get a little depressed. WTF:  "girls" who rejoice that they now can be laid without worrying because Obamacare will provide free birth control (and presumably free medicines for Chlamydia and HIV).

One is reminded of Aristophanes take on this: when the women take over Athens, they pass a law saying if a man wants to sleep with a beautiful girl, he also has to sleep with an ugly old broad.

Heh.



And the latest: isn't it wonderful that folks are getting laid off from their jobs due to Obamacare, so they now have a choice not to need to work?

WTF?

One almost wonders what is happening in the USA.

A similar thing happened when I returned from Africa: and found the country went from G to PG 13. We are now into R rating pushed by the government.

Angels in battle

Usually St. Michael and the angels fighting the demons are pictured as Roman soldiers: which means alas that often they are effeminate men in skirts.

True, as Legolas et al show, you can be a pretty elf (or angel) and still kick butt, but the icon is out of date.

Ironically, Tolkien has an angel kicking butt: In his mythology, Gandalf is a Maia (as are radagast, Saruman and Sauron).

Andrew Greeley once portrayed Michael the archangel as a Navy Seal (who rescued the damsel in distress, of course).

But Father Z has an article about an artist, whose work includes showing the angels as Samurai.

For later reading

Don Surber's essay

Stalin's useful idiots.

Lies behind the culture.

full article link

One should note that these are the lies of the elites


my computer crashed: I got it fixed, but it is again crashing. So I bookmark and read later on my tablet.
The bad news is that the tablet's battery died so I can't move around with it.