Victorian doctors regularly receive unsolicited publicity material from Marie Stopes International, an abortion-performing organisation.

The latest included a message saying, “Talk to us about exciting career opportunities in sexual and reproductive health . . . including procedural and sedationist roles.”

In other words, they are having trouble finding doctors willing to do abortions for them.

Many doctors are willing to refer women to be aborted. Most, however, could never bring themselves to commit such an act personally.

Perhaps this “career” attracts mainly doctors who are no good at their job — or who have other issues that their patients/victims wouldn’t enjoy knowing about.

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Last May, Dr James Peters, anaesthetist (“sedationist”) at one of the Marie Stopes clinics in Melbourne, was charged with having negligently infected 54 clients with Hepatitis C.

Last week, this same clinic was in the news again — a 40-year old lady undergoing late-term abortion of a 24-week baby having to be rushed to Box Hill Hospital Intensive Care Unit.

A Marie Stopes spokeswoman stated, “As part of our medical quality process and protocol we have commenced a priority internal investigation.”

Victorian State Health Minister, David Davies, says it also warrants a governmental investigation.

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The State of Victoria decriminalised abortion in November 2008.

Babies can be terminated right up to term, i.e. 9 months.

The Marie Stopes Clinics are the worst. They take on cases nobody else will touch — attracting patients from interstate and even overseas.

One must feel sorry for the lady who was desperate enough, for whatever reasons, to submit herself to this procedure.

Pray God that she may survive.

But it’s hard to feel good about those who choose to work for a living in such a subhuman industry.

A Catholic Order in the USA (Maryknoll Fathers) is dismissing one of its priests for speaking in favour of ordaining women priests.

He was given two weeks to revoke his stand or face formal removal from the priesthood.

Comments:

(1) The Priest himself, Father Bourgeois, refuses to conform, saying last week that Catholic banning of women priests is “rooted in sexism,” which “like racism, is a sin.”

(2) Some would defend Father B by quoting the Catholic Catechism, “Man has the right to act in conscience . . . he must not be forced to act contrary to his conscience . . . especially in religious matters.”

 (3) Others would accuse the Church of “discriminating against women”, demanding that women be “empowered” (including letting them be priests).

Comments on the comments:

(1) “Sexism” and “racism” aren’t sins. They are ill-defined terms of abuse, best avoided. If an action towards a person of a particular sex or race is based on an attitude of malice, that is a sin – a sin against Charity. But restricting the priesthood to men only, as practised by the Catholic Church – and practised by Jesus himself in his lifetime — is not based on malice.

(2) Nobody is “forcing” Father B to do anything. He can promote women priests as much as he likes — but must do so as a layman. If a member of Carlton AFL football team decides in conscience to kick the ball towards the opposing team’s goal, nobody denies his right to kick footballs anywhere he wants — but not while a member of a team.

 (3) Women already have almost absolute power. They have the dominating influence on all (nearly all) young humans, from birth until puberty or whatever. Rightly so. Men’s skills lie elsewhere — in another direction — fatherhood.

* fatherhood, physically, in begetting the child

* fatherhood socially, in going out to work as the family’s provider, and

* fatherhood spiritually, in being, if so called by God, a priest.

I read the other day that explicit “hardcore” pornography is now the seventh biggest industry in the USA.

New internet sites appear daily — making porn easier to access now than ever before.

The most enthusiastic consumers are young men with still immature brains.

The human brain isn’t fully developed until about age 25.

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Insurance companies deal in reality. They treat under-25 drivers as bad risks.

They don’t pretend that under-25’s are grown up. If they did they would lose money.

Treating 18 year olds as adults is not clever, it is just weakness.

If the porn industry can attract under-25s, they have every chance of creating an addict.

Then they have him for life — barring a miracle of grace.

The addiction is real and literal.

The brain exposed to regular pornography becomes modified by the repeated output of “pleasure hormones”.

The habit becomes wired into the patterns of the brain circuitry itself.

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Although porn sometimes mentions “making love” . . . .

The relationships depicted are those of mutual contempt . . . .

Closer to hate than to  love . . . .

The other person is an object . . . .

Something to exploit . . . .

Not somebody to cherish and relate to selflessly.

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The way to avoid porn addiction is to have nothing to do with porn at all.

Avoid it like the plague.

Remember the traditional Prayer of Contrition:

O my God, I am sorry and beg pardon for all my sins, and detest them above all things,

Because they deserve Thy dreadful punishments,

Because they have crucified my loving Saviour Jesus Christ and, most of all,

Because they offend Thine infinite goodness.

I firmly resolve, by the help of Thy grace,

Never to offend Thee again,

And carefully to AVOID THE OCCASIONS OF SIN.

Amen

As from last week, Facebook fans can now add their unborn babies to the family connections on their page.

And they can also add a photo, name, and expected date of birth.

Facebook announced the new feature, saying that they decided to offer the new ‘Expected: Child’ option as: “a way for users to more accurately express their identity.” 

In doing so, they have — perhaps unintentionally — moved to recognise the identity of the child him/herself.

Unborn babies are already human beings.

It is great that parents should want to make that point.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard was and is a socialist.

She was big in the Australian Union of Students and the Socialist Forum as a 1980s university student.

Socialists believe in redistribution of wealth by government intervention.

Redistribution from people who work to those who govern.

That is what the Carbon Tax is about.

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While JG and Mr Swan want the credit for Australia surviving the 2008 global financial troubles, everybody knows that what saved us was our coal and iron mining companies.

It would not be smart for the Gillard to try to destroy their profitability.

But she has to – Greens Party leader, Dr Bob Brown, insists on it.

She is in a dilemma.

She doesn’t need the miners to like her.

But she does need their taxes.

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The present government’s desire for taxes knows no bounds.

People whose health is such that they would have received pensions in the past are now to be turned into taxpayers.

Likewise mothers staying at home to care for children are intolerable to the PM.

She refers to children — in particular a third child in the family — as “career-killers”.

Bringing up your own child with one-to-one 24/7 personal availability is apparently to be despised as a non-career.

The lady has a twisted world view.

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Actually socialism could work, at least in theory . . . .

But human beings would have to be very different . . . .

Motivated exclusively by love for God and for his creatures . . . .

I read recently that in the USA, 70 percent of older people say they want to die at home, surrounded by loved ones etc.

But only 30 percent do so – most die in hospitals or nursing homes.

Why?

Sometimes a medical reason, unmanageable at home, arises — then there is no choice.

Often, however, there simply isn’t anybody with time available to spend on the old person as he/she becomes increasingly dependent.

Unfortunately.

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A fortnight ago, Prime Minister Gillard said a speech, “I believe in the benefits and dignity of work. I believe in creating jobs and increasing workforce participation . . . .”

The punch-line soon arrived.

Yes, thanks to the nice Carbon Tax, she’ll be raising the tax-free threshold from $6,000 to $18,000.

Hooking married women into away-from-home jobs — using a tax-free $18000 bait.

What with the Carbon-Tax-induced sky-rocketing prices of electricity etc., most women are going to feel they have no choice.

We know how bad this is for their little children — dumped into institutional childcare from infancy, spending their waking hours wondering where Mum is.

We know about that . . . .

Less often discussed is the where-will-granny-pass-away connection.

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If husbands received a wage on which a family could live and Mums stayed home, not only could children be parented by their parents . . . .

Granny could also die at peace.

(P.S. Such Mums could also live simpler, enviro-friendly, carbon-footprint-minimal lifestyles – growing their own vegetables, breast-feeding their own babies, walking more, driving less, doing  volunteer activities when time permits . . . .)