Abortion

 (Sunday, 07:24) From reader DAD's latest drop at a site called NOWP:

Abortion: leading cause of death.

Statistics compiled by Worldometer indicate that more than 44 million abortions took place worldwide in 2022. The World Health Organization (WHO) puts the figure at 73 million. 

If you compare abortion figures to other causes of death: cancer, HIV/AIDS, traffic accidents and suicide, then abortions far exceed all other causes.

https://www.lesalonbeige.fr/lavortement-premiere-cause-de-mortalite/

It's such a long time ago that I wrote on the topic, as distinct from just quoting, as I did with DAD above.

To my mind, the fundamental issue is that of murder versus saving a mother's life.  Also, who says the mother's life is more important than that of the baby? 

There are situations, always were, always will be as long as females have passages and wombs (real females I mean) ... in which there is terminal, very real danger to the mother and/or child.  

That is the primary consideration before that of the father and I include myself in this, three times over.

To my mind, to begin with, there are four human parties involved only:

The adult mother

The child

The father

The expert, e.g. the doctor

The latter is only in the case of terminate or not on very grave grounds only. It is no way, ever, on the say so of an evil organisation which sells baby parts to enrich evil muvvers.  

The last group at all with any say whatever is govt.

Also, for any one of those four listed parties to deny the right of any of the other three to have a say is NOT ON.  All four have the right, if it's termination at stake.

There does exist a fifth factor ... the bible and what it says on such matters, if it does.  Lastly, in the final analysis, it is the decision of the mother if she has considered the other four first.  She, in the end, says the yea or nay.  But she must know it is a "murder versus saving" question, nothing less, the most fundamental decision in her entire existence.

What it is NOT is a lifestyle choice, with some private seller of baby parts having any say whatever, nor some teacher in a school, nor some magazine or journal.  Nor do I like the sound of these Irish nuns.  But at the same time, people like Amfortas, or that silently praying lady the other day or even myself, have every right to be reminding any girl intending to do it of what the bible says ... a short distance away, say on the the other side of the street, across the road.

That's the abortion issue in my eyes.  The whole question of how it got to that stage anyway in the first place is a wole other question, which comes back to the cabal and Woke ideology, i.e. evil.

But of all the things written above, the five parties involved, again, are:

The adult mother

The child

The father

The expert, e.g. the doctor

Scripture

And once more, the sole person, if of legal age, to make the final decision, is the mature mother. If she's way underage, her parents come into the picture, by definition.

(This post I'll also put up at OoL ... it's a quite OoL-y type issue.)

America. The ‘Really Good News’ in the first week of the New Year

In the first slow day s before the House of Representatives finally allowed The Constitution to come first and foremost; when a hardline group of GOP representatives made a would-be Speaker bow down to THEIR rules and requirements, after FIFTEEN BALLOTS, America finally has a Speaker, and the House of Representatives, ruled by a slim GOP majority, which will no longer go along with the ‘Swamp’, and commence the long walk back from Democratic Party misrule and corruption. I reckon that a special medal should be struck, in honour and gratitude to the 20 House members who ensured that ‘Democracy’ will replace the mess which has certainly ruled for the past years. 

For my second piece of ‘Really Good News, I wish to turn towards Florida, with the news that at least one baby, unwanted by its mother at birth, is safe and well.

Safe Haven Baby Boxes founder and CEO Monica Kelsey, Ocala Mayor Kent Guinn, and Ocala Fire Chief Clint Welborn announced news of the surrendered baby during a news conference on Thursday morning and praised the resource for helping to save lives. 

“I’m so happy to hear of this miracle baby,” Guinn said. “I knew when we did this in 2020, this day would come. We all did. We just didn’t know when. We’re glad it was there as a resource for the mother of this child. I’m sure there will be a bright future ahead for this precious child.”

The Ocala Baby Box is the only one in Florida and is one of 134 boxes across the United States, according to the report. The box costs approximately $10,000 and is leased for $200 a month. Since November of 2017, 23 infants have been placed in a Baby Box, according to Safe Haven. 

Kelsey said she came up with the idea for Safe Haven Baby Boxes “because officials were still finding dead, abandoned babies despite states having a Safe Haven law, allowing mothers to surrender newborns to hospitals and fire stations,” according to the report.

“My biological father is a rapist and I was abandoned at birth and my life still has value. I wish that today, my birth mom would have had those resources all those years ago,” Kelsey said.

Kelsey noted that each box has a heater and a cooling unit and is alarm-activated. A silent alarm alerts firefighters if a baby is in the box 60 seconds after the baby is placed inside. 

“Sixty seconds is enough time for mom to get away,” Kelsey said.

Once the baby is inside the box, the outer door locks and only safety or medical personnel are able to access it, the report states. Safe Haven officials said the newborn is “attended to within five minutes, medically evaluated at a local hospital and adopted within 30-45 days,” the report states. 

PoliceScotland welcomes Kiddy-Fiddlers

As an old man, albeit with a still-enquiring and agile mind, I wish to report to my small audience, of reading and absorbing probably the nastiest, most evil and potentially destructive statement ever emanating from any Government Agency, according to my long, long memory.

Police in Scotland have sparked outrage for describing paedophiles as “Minor-Attracted People” in a report.

Officials said the language in the year-end report was based on terminology used by the European Union.

In a year-end report, Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said police have worked on a project that’s main agenda is “to develop understanding and approach to avoid the victimisation of children by engaging Minor-Attracted People (MAPs) and providing them with the necessary support, treatment and guidance to help prevent criminal activities.”

A controversial move to label paedophiles as “Minor-Attracted People” in a top-level report has been defended by Police Scotland, with the force suggesting the EU was to blame.

Chief Constable Iain Livingstone’s annual year end report refers to child abusers as Minor-Attracted People (MAPs). The move comes amid wider concerns by campaigners over what they see as attempts to rebrand paedophilia as a harmless sexual preference.

A spokesman for the force stressed that MAPs is not a term they routinely use to describe child abusers and said that its use in the report had to be understood in context.

He explained that the reference to MAPs was in relation to the force’s engagement with the European Union‘s Horizon Europe Project – Prevention of Child Sexual Exploitation.

The report states: “The project’s main agenda is to develop understanding and approach to avoid the victimisation of children by engaging Minor-Attracted People (MAPs) and providing them with the necessary support, treatment and guidance to help prevent criminal activities.”

I would, however, gently remind my readers that this is just an extension of the thinking which the pervert-admiring Harriet Harman, MP disclosed when she, Harriet Harman, belatedly expressed ‘regret’ that a vile paedophile group was allowed to forge links with the National Council for Civil Liberties.

But she still refused to apologise over the NCCL’s extraordinary relationship with the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange, who openly demanded that the age of consent be reduced to Four years old.

I would also remind readers that the Chief Constable’s Annual Report must have been, before publication, scanned, criticised and re-written many times. And still that vile term (MAP) was allowed to remain. To this writer, it proves just one thing: the thinking behind certain senior PoliceScotland officers, very senior Police officers, was that that vile acronym should remain, because that is indeed in the future for Scotland, and that the ‘plebs’ should get used to it, because its going to happen anyway!

PoliceScotland. Bunch of Privileged, Uniformed, Pervert Enablers

Let's Spin The Wheel Of Racism Once More...

...where will it land?

Wha..?

In a last intervention before the end of her tenure...

Well, there's a relief, I guess...

...Achiume said meaningful solutions to the ecological crisis were not possible without tackling racism. But in a bleak assessment of the prospects for the future of humanity, she admitted it was “difficult to imagine” how that message could be made to resonate with people holding power.

 Pretty difficult to get it to resonate with me, and I don't hold any...

“You can’t think that you solve the climate crisis and then attend to racial justice or racial discrimination,” Achiume said.

 Can you break for lunch first?

“What you have to realise is that every action that is taken in relation to ecological crisis – environmental, climate and otherwise – has racial justice implications, and so every action becomes a site of undoing racial subordination.”

Sure, sure...say, can I borrow that hammer? I've a nail right here I need to fix. 

Which hill do we die on?

 DAD, at NOWP, brings us news of Jordan Peterson. My first reaction was to check his chief detractor online Vox Day, there was nothing on it yet, but there was this:

That one in itself we can discuss in another post but certainly, this should not be tolerated:

Playing devil’s advocate for a moment … if the devil sets the rules through his cowardly yet vicious minion Soy Boy and in turn by even more cowardly head of a department, then JP can’t be surprised if the same person who approved the killing of the elderly in hospitals is behind this one too … although such monsters have always been with us.

We’ve been critical of JP for his strange positions on the very God he is now in desperate need of.  Vox has articulated these at his place … use the search engine over there.

But there is also the question of JP’s flawed view of the world, with no ostensible warrior spirit on display, a Harry Hewitt without the belligerence and I’m not going to gloss over it and say it’s neither here nor there. After all, that’s precisely why we attack the OneThink professors and teachers in universities and schools.

Also, when the Trucker Convoy was killed off, was any hell raised anywhere in the world by us?  For weeks, months, years?

For a few days, yes, then other issues swamped it.  And yet that same divided attention was all the encouragement Soy Boy needed to bring in his draconian measures, knowing no one could now stop him.  The USSR was worse, … but give Soy Boy time.

Now, the Canadians themselves … soft left liberal bunch in towns and cities, less so in the countryside … they just roll over and moan, as we do in Britain.

However, in the US, the 20 in Congress are taking a different stance, just as the Canadian truckers did.  Some Americans are ornery, to use their term.  Not enough though to kill off the iniquity though … too many cowards now surround the brave.

Our advice to JP?  How would that help when the enemy is right behind snuffing him out and their line is going to be … “Well here is the official line … you, Dr. JP, do not toe it, therefore you are dismissed.”  

The issue is that official line in the first place, innit, and what a society can do against iniquitous laws?

But against that, there is the question of flawed teaching … and he is a teacher with wide reach.  Put simply … if he teaches a flawed notion of God, then why would God come to his rescue? Not for us to say, as we’re not God.

Alternatively, just who would come to JP’s rescue?  I’m thinking it’s a combination of God through mass protest, starting with these online outlets such as blogs and vlogs.  Take it from there.  Consider where the 20 rebels in Congress are playing out the battle … it’s on the Congressional floor, then on Twitter.

Make no mistake … all major players are on Twitter … all of them.  That’s why Musk wanted it.

Dr. JP?  Poor sod.  Look, whatever we think of him, pro and con, it really is our job, on the crocodile eat me last principle, the Pastor Niemoeller principle, the Voltaire principle, to shout it out loudly. 

Were it a pagan on the subject of Stonehenge, I’d still have to support him in his freedom to do it his way … otherwise there’s no freedom at all … for any of us.

Circumvent the rules before they apply

In the light of The Slog’s post yesterday:

https://therealslog.com/2023/01/04/explosive-hunt-in-bid-to-raid-state-pensions/

… stating:

There is clearly a degree of self-fulfilling prophecy in all of this, but I can reveal with some certainty that the outline Pension plans are as follows:

*Some 25% of OAP pensions receivers will have their payments cancelled in total on the grounds that ‘They have enough already, and don’t need it’

*A staggering cut of 50% for further citizens who have personal private pensions beyond the State system

*A rise in the pension receipt age for all to 70, this being a necessity given “£31.8 billion higher than expected government expenditure on measures to control Covid19”

*An end to the Triple Lock, with an initial five years of frozen pensions at current levels.

… comes reader Andy’s comment:

RIP cash. We all saw it coming way back. We know that every taxman drools over the end of cash. Back in 2020 when pubs reluctantly accepted my cash (they wanted the business) I said use it or lose it. Wossat sposed to mean? They asked, I told them and they called me a nut job. This site is not quite mainstream but does have reach and they are talking about it.

https://unherd.com/thepost/brett-scott-beware-a-cashless-society/

Going further and envisioning the State no longer backing cash, in fact declaring it now illegal, nevertheless it’s made of polymer, it’s not going to disintegrate, physically, any time soon … so why not make it into the shadow currency people actually use between each other for goods and services?

You have a local dairy farmer?  A seller of chickens? As long as two people value that piece of plastic, let the govt do what it wants at a distance.  Needs to be physical, not electronic.

In fact the entire game is going to be circumventing govt, even barter … in short, lateral solutions.  There’s going to be far more samizdat as well, far more of a white van economy.

And things like bequeathing and inheriting … why wait till you die?  Why not divest gradually now, sending it to its intended final destination … early.

Just thoughts, ok?  I’m no investment adviser, nothing here is investment advice, just thoughts.

NHS Hospital Surgery: Herewith a Warning

 I write today with a warning, not just because I blame the Hospital for my wife’s untimely death, but because people should know what lies ahead of them in a Hospital, when surgery is planned for them.

Your Rights: Your Life

Do Not Attempt Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation

To any patient, or indeed patient’s family, whose entry into an NHS Trust-controlled Hospital is proposed for the purposes of surgery: of any sort of surgery under a general anaesthetic.

Demand to speak to the people who will be in charge, not of the surgery, but of the decision which will mean the difference between life, or death. Demand to speak to the people, the consultants, the specialists, the medical professionals who will study the medical files relating to the patient under scrutiny, and DEMAND  that you be informed if there is to be a decision on whether a Do Not Attempt Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation form be completed and set upon that Patient’s file. Because you have a legal right to be consulted, and a Legal right to argue if a decision should indeed be made, The Law demands that you be given that right. 

So, if you are old, or infirm, or if you are ‘Vulnerable’, or Frail, or if the Statistics may show that CPR would not or might not help, just remember that your voice counts, or rather should count, louder than a clutch of medical professionals who depend upon statistics in judging whether any patient lives or dies, and demand, a second or even third opinion, because if you find yourself, or a near and dear relative, approaching a proposal for surgery from an NHS Hospital, remember that your voice counts when it comes to decisions about DNACPR.

What's The French For 'Keeping Your Appointment In Samarra'..?

Mallet's victims on Friday included Emine Kara, the leader of the Kurdish women’s movement in France, who was refused asylum in the country earlier this year.

This infuriated Kurdish nationalists, who accused the French authorities of not doing enough to protect her.

Hey, if she'd gone back when her claim was refused, she wouldn't have been around to catch a bullet in Paris, would she? 

Beccuau referred to a burglary at his Paris home in 2016 which he believed was carried out by immigrants – a crime that helped radicalise him.

Something the police here might want to bear in mind... 

It was a year ago – on December 8 2021 – that the Frenchman went on the rampage in a refugee camp in Paris.

‘He used a sabre to slice two men, and damage six tents at a camp in the Bercy park in the 12th arrondissement of Paris,’ said the investigating source. ‘He was wounded when one of the refugees was disarming him. Two Sudanese refugees were badly wounded in the attack.’

The former train driver was put on remand in prison, while awaiting trial for attempted murder linked to racism, but he was bailed on December 12. Restrictions included having his French passport removed, and he was also banned from keeping any kind of weapon, while under ‘judicial supervision’.

Sounds like the judicial system over there is no better than ours... 

Happy Jack

People like their news delivered in their preferred form. On Twitter just now, a woman was recounting that she visited her friend across the road and hubby was sitting, watching CNN. That was his reality on world events. Over here, some prefer the Guardian for their reality, or C4 or ITV or the BBC.

So their reality, e.g. on deathjabs, will differ markedly from ours.  Now consider this from this morning:

Yesterday, I was looking out and upwards from my sunroom windows because there were two planes at a few thousand feet, from their wings were coming two cloud trails each. The prevailing wind was going to put those over a major city in the distance.

I watched one of them, the other was crisscrossing diagonally, it was out by now over the countryside, it turned and came back the other way, parallel, spewing more trail in the direction of the city.  That’s all I’m saying.

All right, consider this:

I’d argue that in both cases, let alone the myriad other things we report on which defy logic, there is utter madness at work in decisionmaking, but that CNN watcher or Guardian reader is never going to know until it all mysteriously falls apart.

And these people vote in governments.  Who are more of a problem for society?  The mad crims in govt or the couch potatoes voting them in or else not even noticing the outcry when good candidates are shut out of the process?

I'm Really Glad To Hear It, Ehwi...

Ehwi, who lives with his wife and young daughter in Cambridge, sends money to Ghana, and is facing the squeeze. His monthly electricity bill has more than doubled, and he has had to limit the amount he spends on “luxuries” such as taking his wife out to eat.

“The frequency I’m sending money home is increasing because the economic situation in Ghana is worse than the UK … [but] I’ve received practically nothing to help deal with the cost of living here.”

Because why should they, if you have enough excess cash to send it to people abroad, rather than spending it in this country? 

“Sending money home is something I have to do, it’s not an ‘I would like to do this,’” says Toyin Oshinowo. A project manager who moved to the UK from Nigeria when she was one, Oshinowo, 42, remits money between her “two homes” to support friends and family and pay bills in Nigeria.

One year old. And as soon as she starts earning, she's expected to support moochers abroad. Christ, what a 'culture'... 

Those flows of money are hugely important for developing economies, vastly outweighing foreign aid sent by governments.

Let's stop all foreign aid then! It clearly isn't needed.