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Canada's pro-abortion movement rarely has anything compelling or intelligent to say, but every once in awhile they out-do themselves. Here's a few of those examples from the past couple weeks:

1. From the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada’s (ARCC) Facebook page, posting an article on sex selection abortion:

Lessons from India: Here's an excellent article that explains in detail how the war against sex selection abortion in India contributes to the further oppression of women in many ways. 

Quotes: “The right of women to do what they feel is best for them in the circumstances they find themselves is sacrificed at the altar of making empty ‘pro-girl’ gestures.” And: “If you are pro-choice, then you cannot start limiting someone else’s choice because it makes you feel uncomfortable.”

Where to start with this babble? The exquisite irony of the abortion extremist’s moral relativism is on display, the snake choking on its own tail. Abortion used as a tool for the systematic elimination of females? No mind. “Empty ‘pro-girl’ gestures” are not those which trumpet the choice of funded female feticide while claiming to be somehow defending the rights of women, but rather those who point out that this practice is killing millions of girls. Not just pro-lifers, either, but traditionally pro-abortion feminists such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Mara Hvistendahl (author of Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men) have highlighted this as a huge and growing problem.

I recently interviewed Barbara Kay of the National Post, herself pro-choice, and she noted that sex selection abortion and the impact it was having in many places gave her and many other ordinarily pro-“choice” feminists’ reason for pause. Fanatics like Joyce Arthur of ARCC, however, have never found anything that gives them pause at all. Head down, hair back. With ideological blinders strapped firmly to her head and a cadre of hilariously incoherent bloggers at her back, she’s never met an aborted corpse whose demise she did not approve of. Even if the corpse happens to be that of a girl. And even if there’s a couple hundred million of them. Gendercide? Sounds sort of like feticide. They must be trying to take away our abortions! Alright, bunker down and defend. Good luck, younger girls. If you make it, we’ll have protected your ability to off your daughters. Die another day.

2. Speaking of sacrificing women in the name of abortion, the lovely and engaging Niki Ashton from Churchill, Manitoba, has again reared her head to speak to the abortion issue with all the warmth of her home riding. (In case anyone missed that joke, it was -22◦C there today. So not warm.) Referring to the “anti-choice record” of many Tory MPs, she demanded to know if, “the (health) minister [can] assure this House that an ideological agenda is not behind the delay in approval of RU-486?”

Lol. Really? That’s adorable. As cited in a recent LifeSite article, the “FDA website and particularly the Mifepristone US Post-marketing Adverse Events Summary through 04/30/2011…noted that of the 2207 adverse events listed, 612 women were hospitalized, 339 experienced blood loss that required transfusions, 256 had infections, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, pelvic infections with sepsis, with 48 being severe, hospitalized for 2-3 days. Fifty-eight women had ectopic pregnancies. Several of the women (7 of 14) who died in the US, ‘died from sepsis (severe illness caused by infection of the bloodstream) after medical abortion with mifepristone and misoprostol…Sepsis is a known risk related to any type of abortion.’”

Umm, Ms. Ashton? Can you assure us that your ignorant push for a dangerous drug with a record of harming women is not…never mind. I think we know. The self-righteous indignation was a nice touch, though. You’re in the right party.

3. And then there’ s this, an image posted along with some pro-RU-486 blog post and gleefully posted to Facebook by the lovely and clueless Ms. Joyce Arthur: 

Huh. A talking embryo. A talking, suicidal embryo that the pro-abortion movement, by way of a cartoon, will apparently grant personhood status just long enough to voice her support for being poisoned like a rat. Isn’t the pro-abortion movement lovely? Here, tiny human, say it’s cool if we poison you. Oh! And this’ll be great! Call them “anti-choice.” Teehee. These jokes are to die for.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what passes for “discourse” among our opponents.