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An Obscure Relic of Canada’s Past: Pro-Life Communists

I happened upon this pro-life pamphlet from the Canadian Party of Labour, published circa. 1973. It is entitled: Abortion, Population Control, Genocide: The ’Scientific’ Killers and Who Sent for Them.

The Canadian Party of Labour was part of the anti-revisionist strain of socialism. Anti-Revisionists opposed “fake communists” like the ones who headed the Soviet Union at the time. They thought they represented “authentic” Marxist-Leninism. One of their best-known mottos was “30 for 40”, meaning receiving 40 hours’ pay for 30 hours’ work.

The pamphlet does not argue strictly from a perspective of fetal personhood but it is assumed throughout. The main thrust of their argument is that abortion amounts to the genocide of blacks and the working class, and that “under capitalism, free abortions are forced abortions.”

I strongly recommend you read it, as it has loads of interesting tidbits. Many of their arguments presented are the ones we bourgeois pro-lifers use today. Sometimes it’s a little painful to read, because their hearts were in the right place, but they genuinely believed that once socialism was in place, women won’t have to abort! They’ll have everything they need to raise children. Very sad.

One of the passages that struck me the most was the communist indictment of Catholic bishops for their lukewarm opposition (or even support) or abortion. Now the author was completely wrong about the history of the Church’s past prohibition of abortion. However, the Church’s limp-wrested opposition gave him reason for his cynicism:

As for the Catholic Church, the hierarchy in Rome continues to keep one foot in the feudal era, but big-city Cardinals in a number of capitalist countries have broken in practice with Rome on this question. The once-powerful Catholic anti-abortion propaganda machine in the U.S. has in the last few years let out barely a whimper as the bosses move to institute a policy of legal and free abortions nationwide. In Holland the Catholic hierarchy has come out openly for abortions. Probably the next Pope will get a “revelation” on this subject bringing Church policy officially in line with the needs and desires of the capitalist ruling classes.

It is interesting to read that, in light of the history, knowing that a Pope from a communist country would accede to the throne of Peter and reinforce opposition to abortion, not soften it.

And what about a woman’s right to own her own body?

A woman’s control of her own body is the essence of the abortion movement, it is often claimed. The question of control of one’s body is not a sex question, but a class question. Capitalist men and women control their own bodies; working men and women sell their bodies to the capitalists for a specified period of time. The ability to obtain an abortion has nothing to do with this. This is elementary Marxism.

They published a letter of resignation said to be from a woman who worked at the Family Planning Federation of Canada. The thrust of the letter is very pro-life:

Through various themes such as “Can you afford to have another child” the Federation insinuates that children are an undesirable burden for poor people thereby creating an arbitrary priority group for family planning motivational propaganda. Generally called “the less well informed” they are lumped together under the multipurpose blanket phrase “lower socio-economic groups”. Often they are cited in scapegoat fashion as being those in most need. Isn’t this a long way from the stated goal of the campaign – namely to inform Canadians of their newly given right to family planning information. Do you mean that they are most in need because we think they need to practice family planning or because they are ignorant of even one reliable method of contraception and where to get it. The issue now becomes motivation vs. coercion and the question is this: Is a couple earning $6,000 per year equally entitled to have the number of children they want (whether it be 2 or 6) as a couple earning $15,000 per year? If the answer is yes then why all the emphasis on their being in the greatest need when statistics support the fact that unplanned pregnancies are common to all classes and ignorance of family planning methods equally prevalent throughout society.

Through the skill of marketing experts motivational techniques are being used to “sell” family planning to the public. If you think sell is too strong a term or perhaps inaccurate consider the following. The campaign was developed by marketing experts.

About Henry Morgentaler, they write:

Their hero Dr. Morgentaler of Montreal, the abortionist, is proof of the way the current movement plays into the hands of the ruling class. While they’re misleading people into his defense committees, he’s got half a million $ in a Swiss and is evading income taxes. He’s not in the business because of his “concern for women”. He also supports population control in “poor countries” and pushes euthanasia.

This may or may not be true. Ideological pamphlets like this sometimes make unsubstantiated statements, but it’s just interesting that they would make this claim.

I wonder if the party remained equally pro-life until its dissolution in 1984.

I Googled the author, Paul Saba, to see what I could see. A doctor of the same name signed a pro-life letter addressed to Health Minister Allan Rock in 2001. It could be the same man, or perhaps someone related to him. I suspect they are the same person.

St. Alphonsus Liguori’s 50 Maxims for Attaining Perfection in the Love of Jesus Christ

I stumbled upon this and thought it was a propos given that this is the season of Lent:


1. To desire ardently to increase in the love of Jesus Christ

2. To make acts of love toward Jesus Christ. Immediately on waking, and before going to sleep, make an act of love, seeking always to unite your own will to the will of Jesus Christ.

3. Often to meditate on His Passion.

4. Always to ask Jesus Christ for His love.

5. To communicate often and many times in the day to make spiritual communions.

6. Often to visit the Most Holy Sacrament.

7. Every morning to receive from the hands of Jesus Christ himself your own cross.

8. To desire Paradise and Death in order to be able to love Jesus Christ perfectly and for all eternity.

9. Often to speak of the love of Jesus Christ.

10. To accept contradictions for the love of Jesus Christ.

11. To rejoice in the happiness of God.

12. To do that which is most pleasing to Jesus Christ, and not to refuse Him anything that is agreeable to Him.

13. To desire and to endeavor that all should love Jesus Christ.

14. To pray always for sinners and for the souls in Purgatory.

15. To drive from your heart every affection that does not belong to Jesus Christ.

16. Always to have recourse to the Most Holy Mary, that she may obtain for us the love of Jesus Christ.

17. To honor Mary in order to please Jesus Christ.

18. To seek to please Jesus Christ in all of your actions.

19. To offer yourself to Jesus Christ to suffer any pain for His love.

20. To be always determined to die rather than commit a willful venial sin.

21. To suffer crosses patiently, saying, “Thus it pleases Jesus Christ.”

22. To renounce your own pleasures for the love of Jesus Christ.

23. To pray as much as possible.

24. To practice all the mortifications that obedience permits.

25. To do all your spiritual exercises as if it were for the last time.

26. To persevere in good works in the time of aridity.

27. Not to do nor yet to leave undone anything through human respect.

28. Not to complain in sickness.

29. To love solitude, to be able to converse alone with Jesus Christ.

30. To drive away melancholy.

31. Often to recommend yourself to those persons who love Jesus Christ.

32. In temptation, to have recourse to Jesus crucified, and to Mary in her sorrows.

33. To trust entirely in the Passion of Jesus Christ.

34. After committing a fault, not to be discouraged, but to repent and resolve to amend.

35. To do good to those who do evil.

36. To speak well of all, and to excuse the intention when you cannot defend the action.

37. To help your neighbor as much as you can.

38. Neither to say nor to do anything that might vex him. And if you have been wanting in charity, to ask his pardon and to speak kindly to him.

39. Always to speak with mildness and in a low tone.

40. To offer to Jesus Christ all the contempts and persecution that you meet with.

41. To look upon Superiors as the representatives of Jesus Christ.

42. To obey without answering and without repugnance, and not to seek your own satisfaction in anything.

43. To like the lowest employments.

44. To like the poorest things.

45. Not to speak either good or evil of yourself.

46. To humble yourself even towards inferiors.

47. Not to excuse yourself when you are reproved.

48. Not to defend yourself when found fault with.

49. To be silent when you are disquieted.

50. Always to renew your determination of becoming a saint, saying, “My Jesus, I desire to be all Thine, and Thou must be all mine.”

New Auxillary Bishop in Quebec City

This morning, I learned of great news when I read on the Archbishop's website that Abbé Denis Grondin became an auxillary bishop of Quebec City.

He used to be a priest in my parish when I lived in Quebec City. This was before he went to Charlevoix.

He is the only priest in my youth who ever spoke out against contraception. I remember after he spoke against it, I went up to him to thank him and I think he really appreciated it because I sensed he was nervous about making that kind of stand.

I hope he gets promoted. I think he has guts.

Bioethicists: Infanticide for social reasons is A-OK

Call it after-birth abortion.

I guess we really can't write satire anymore.

They argue that both the fetus and the new-born infant are only potential persons without any interests. Therefore the interests of the persons involved with them are paramount until some indefinite time after birth. To emphasise the continuity between the two acts, they term it “after-birth abortion” rather than infanticide.

Yeah, infanticide that sounds so....judgemental.

Congratulations, feminists!

Your discrimination of the fetus has led to this. Fetuses are "not that important" so infants aren't either.

Killing an infant after birth is not euthanasia either. In euthanasia, a doctor would be seeking the best interests of the person who dies. But in “after-birth abortion” it is the interests of people involved, not the baby.

How long after birth is it “ethically permissible” to kill infants? Guibilini and Minerva leave that question up to neurologists and psychologists, but it takes at least a few weeks for the infant to become self-conscious. At that stage it moves from being a potential person to being a person, and infanticide would no longer be allowed.

I can just see the next stage: but if women aren't allowed to kill their infants after the 21-day limit, they'll be criminalized for simply doing what women before that had the right to do.


I'd like to suggest that this kind of talk is actually hate speech and that the laws that prohibit provoking violence on a group of people be applied here. But of course, it's only infants, so who really cares, right?

What it takes to open a lemonade stand in America

Congratulations for stifling free enterprise, statists.

I live on a fairly busy street (for a suburb) and a lemonade stand could be a viable business for my kids. It would be especially important for my oldest as she is autistic and needs as much work experience as possible.

Alas, it would not be worth my while. I think the cost of the permits would probably eat into the meagre profits.

Brave New World of Reproductive Justice!

Prominent lawyer sentenced in baby-selling scheme

(Reuters) - A prominent California adoption lawyer was sentenced to federal prison on Friday for her role in running a baby-selling ring that placed unborn children of surrogate mothers with unrelated parents for up to $100,000 each.

Theresa Erickson pleaded guilty in August to a wire fraud conspiracy charge stemming from what authorities said was essentially an adoption mill that skirted state laws requiring surrogate mothers in California to sign contracts with their prospective clients before becoming pregnant.

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Authorities said Erickson and two co-defendants collected fees from couples who thought they were paying in advance for parental custody of babies born to surrogate mothers and available for adoption because a surrogate's original clients had backed out of their contract.

In fact, the surrogate mothers had become pregnant through embryo implantations performed on them in the Ukraine as part of a scheme to create "an inventory of unborn babies" for unsuspecting U.S. couples desperate for an infant of their own, according to federal prosecutors.

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The surrogate mothers themselves were also unwitting participants, with some of them ultimately blowing the whistle on the scheme.

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"The surrogacy laws were enacted to protect both unborn babies and parents seeking children," U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said in a written statement. "Out of sheer greed, Erickson preyed upon people's most basic need: to raise a child."

There are people in this world who think nothing of this.

Surrogate motherhood? Cool.

Human trafficking in unborn children? No problem.

Treating child-rearing as a need? Of course!

I doubt feminists will speak out against this practice because it touches upon the humanity of the unborn child.



There will come a time when abortion will be criminalized.

Pro-lifers will have to oppose the human trafficking of unborn children.

Man arrested and strip-searched after daughter draws picture of gun

And he doesn't even own a gun.

Officials told the newspaper the move was necessary to ensure there were no guns accessible by children in the family’s home. They also said comments by Sansone’s daughter, Neaveh, that the man holding the gun in the picture was her dad and “he uses it to shoot bad guys and monsters,” was concerning.

I don't know the technicalities of the law, but I can't believe there isn't grounds for false arrest. I suspect that he might not sue the police because he'd just want it all to go away.

VIDEO: Does Bill 13 REALLY address bullying?

Bill 13 doesn't go to the heart of bullying. Featuring Phil Lees, leader of the Family Coalition Party:



And oh yeah, PC's support Bill 13.

And this is the link mentioned in the video.

To anyone who would sing the US National Anthem

Stole this from some guy's facebook status:

“So, with all the kindness I can muster, I give this one piece of advice to the next pop star who is asked to sing the national anthem at a sporting event: save the vocal gymnastics and the physical gyrations for your concerts. Just sing this song the way you were taught to sing it in kindergarten — straight up, no styling. Sing it with the constant awareness that there are soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines watching you from bases and outposts all over the world. Don’t make them cringe with your self-centered ego gratification. Sing it as if you are standing before a row of 86-year-old WWII vets wearing their Purple Hearts, Silver Stars and flag pins on their cardigans and you want them to be proud of you for honoring them and the country they love — not because you want them to think you are a superstar musician. They could see that from the costumes, the makeup and the entourages. Sing “The Star Spangled Banner” with the courtesy and humility that tells the audience that it is about America , not you.”

I hope this goes viral.

VIDEO: Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen -- The Devil

This is rather long. But I'm posting this because ...clergy don't talk about this, nor do they talk like this.

Undercover Investigation of Sex-Selection Abortion in the UK

"I don't ask questions," doctor tells pregnant woman.

No, you wouldn't, would you?

That might cut into business. The shady business.

Stephanie Byrom, the chief executive of Pall Mall Medical, denied that the clinic offered terminations on the grounds of gender determination and said that if one of its consultants had breached its rules it would take “immediate action”.

LOL. It sounds like Planned Parenthood and when they vigorously deny covering up statutory rape when they get caught.

At both clinics offering the sex-selection abortions, the pregnant women were not offered in-depth counselling on their decision to request a termination — despite the questionable grounds.

Well no, they're good pro-choicers, that's what good pro-choicers do. They don't ask questions. Otherwise, women looking for abortions might stick coathangers up their crotches and kill themselves.

The Daily Telegraph intends to publish more disclosures from the investigation tomorrow, in particular a recording of a doctor offering to falsify paperwork.

Note to pro-life bloggers reading this. More to come!

H/T: Blazing Cat Fur

TheTruthIs.ca -- new prolife website

Is dedicated to erecting abortion memorials.

But statism doesn't reinforce laziness...

The Catholic Thing:

Today, about 12 percent of white working-class Americans just don’t want to work. Some live at home with their folks and grab odd jobs from time to time to make pocket money. Others turn to crime or run up bills and declare bankruptcy.

And many won’t marry their sweethearts, even if they are pregnant, because they do not want to be responsible adults.

There's no stigma to being an overgrown adolescent. Men complain that feminists emasculate them, but sometimes the truth is some men emasculate themselves.