First published July 4, 2011
Last time, and the time before, I was telling you about a conversation I had with a friend. The “Pro Life” conversation is probably one of the most important ones that we should be able to have. But, most of us do not have the facts or the confidence to do so. So, here’s part three of that conversation: 
Then I asked, “So it’s alive and human, but not a life?”
Silence. She was thinking about it too. I continued, “But it’s not a human person?”
“No”, she answered.
“Why not?”
“Because it’s inside the woman.”
“And so, is it your environment that determines whether you are human person or not?”
“Yes.” She said without thinking.
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First published June 21, 2011
Last time I was telling you about a conversation I had with a friend. The “Pro Life” conversation is probably one of the most important ones that we should be able to have. But, most of us do not have the facts or the confidence to do so. So, here’s part 2 of that conversation. 
“Would you have an abortion?” I asked.
“If I was raped I would.”
“Ok. I got that. If you weren’t raped. If your contraception failed, would you have an abortion?”
“I don’t know. It depends on the circumstances.”
“Like what?”
“I don’t know? if I am married or not, if I’m in school, if I have money?”
“So you would have an abortion if having the baby would be an inconvenience?”
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First Published June 9, 2011
Last week I also spoke to Michael Coren on S+L Radio about his new book Why Catholics Are Right. We spoke about all those things that people who really don’t know anything about Church always challenge us about. And since then I’ve been thinking a lot about how we need to be able to have certain conversations – about our Faith, about our beliefs, and to have the “Pro-Life” conversation is probably one of the most important ones. But, most of us do not have the facts or the confidence to do so. So, let me tell you about a conversation I recently had with a close friend I grew up with.
“I think that a woman can do whatever she wants with her body”, she said to me, quite agitated. (We had been at it for a bit already.)
“But, that’s not what the issue is,” I retorted.
“What’s the issue then?”
“It’s whether the fetus is a human being or not.”
Ignoring this last comment, she pressed on, “If abortions where illegal, think of all the women who would die trying to get abortions in unsanitary conditions.”
“That’s just completely irrational.” Now I was beginning to get agitated myself. “That’s like saying we need to make crimes legal so that the people committing them don’t get killed or hurt other people.”
She started to interrupt. But I continued, “It’s like saying, ‘let’s make suicide-bombings legal and safe so that the suicide bomber doesn’t hurt other people.’”
“Oh, c’mon!” she yelled, “What does that have to do with anything? Suicide-bombings kill people.”
“So do abortions.”
“A fetus is not a human being.”
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Published June 2, 2011
Did you know that killing raccoons is illegal in Toronto?
Raccoons. Killing them. It’s against the law. Raccoons.
I’m not advocating the killing of innocent animals (or guilty ones, for that matter). But really. It’s illegal?
A few weeks ago I heard about a man being charged for shooting his dog. Apparently his dog was sick, he lives in a farm, it’s too expensive to get the vet to do it, so he shot him. One shot. Done. He was charged. Cruelty to animals.
And now, someone was charged for killing raccoons with a shovel in his back yard.
So, let me get this straight: It’s against the law to kill a raccoon with a shovel – that was actually two charges: cruelty to animals and weapons – but it’s perfectly legal to walk into an abortion facility and kill a human fetus – and it’s free. Our tax dollars pay for it.
Surely, even people who don’t think that a fetus is a “human being” would agree that a fetus is at least as valuable a life as that of a raccoon? Surely.
What is this world coming to?
Save the whales, save the dolphins, save the puppies and the baby seals. Save the racoons.
Fund the abortions.
Why is this not an election issue? If my tax dollars are being used to pay for abortions, with no restrictions (while my grandma has to wait six months to have knee surgery), I also want my tax dollars to go to the humane killing of racoons, so that my neighbour doesn’t have to do it with the shovel.
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