Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Andrea Mrozek tells it like it is on abortion

Writes Andrea Mrozek:

Deceptive language makes it too easy to ignore what Canada's abortion-on-demand status quo actually involves: The annihilation of some 100,000 concrete individuals every year. Remind Canadians of this, and most will express opposition -- or at least ambivalence -- to the anything-goes legal status quo.

This is why pro-abortion activists themselves obscure the discourse -- and fear the plain facts on display in a simple ultrasound scan. Shelley Gavigan of Osgoode Hall Law School spoke to this fear at a conference at the University of Toronto this past January when she acknowledged the "dominant ideology" of the unborn child. "If you must acknowledge the discourse of the unborn child," she told the largely pro-choice crowd, "if we must reinsert the vernacular of the unborn into the discourse, [then the] pregnant woman and the unborn child speak with one voice and that voice is hers."

Translation: Those with power can do whatever they want to the powerless.