Tonight, Tuesday 13 September, around 6:30pm, in Canberra’s Parliament House Theatre, Prime Minister Julia Gillard is making the “Emily’s List Inaugural Oration”.

Emily’s List being (according to its website) “a financial, political and personal support network for the election of progressive Labor women candidates.”

It stipulates that: “A woman candidate, to be satisfactory, must be a ‘feminist’ in the best sense of the word….”

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The key word in all that is the word “progressive”

“Pro-gressive” is a code word for pro-abortion.

What Emily’s List really stands for can be summed up in two words: “DEAD BABIES”.

So, within the Australian Labor Party is a power-hungry inner circle of females committed to promoting the “right” to abortion.

About three-quarters of ALP women Members of Parliament belong to Emily’s List.

A good reason why a thinking person cannot, unfortunately, even think about supporting the Australian Labor Party in its present form.

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Sometimes I think I detect in Julia G a kind of embarrassment about the anti-life, anti-family postures of her party.

She is an intelligent person. She is capable of abstract thought.

One day she may make a stand on an important issue — and simultaneously both destroy her political future and save her soul.

It’s just a thought.

The media were yesterday quoting recent research suggesting that women in their 50s who drink alcohol are more likely to have a healthy old age than non-drinkers.

Popular news, no doubt.

But does it tell us anything of practical relevance?

The small print reveals that the research is talking about women who drink one standard drink or less per day.

Microscopic amounts – especially by Australian standards.

Less than two thirds of a can of standard strength beer . . . .

Less than 20 teaspoons of table wine . . . .

Professor Jennie Connor of the Dunedin Medical School in New Zealand comments, “I feel very strongly that there is no scientific justification for the promotion of alcohol as health-enhancing for any subgroup of the population. The potential for harm is great and the potential for good is unknown.”

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This Friday, September 9, has been designated Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Day.

Did you know that FASD is the leading cause of mental retardation in Western countries?

The media don’t seem keen on telling us that. **

FASD is totally preventable if mothers-to-be drank no alcohol.

It seems there is no safe minimum amount of alcohol-drinking in pregnancy.

For more facts on this, Google “Isabella’s List”.

** www.come-over.to/FAS/FASDfacts.htm

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.