Abortions are Bad

It seems in a society where "freedom of speech" is law, we are rather negligent in using it. Most Canadian media portrays my topic as a closed issue, a defeated enemy. Allegedly, we are unanimous in our opinions; no longer do we debate it or discuss it, and the case is closed. It is abortion, a topic thought of as done and dead but which is still screaming for an answer. In a survey published in the National Post, one third of all Canadians are for abortion on demand, one-third demand absolute prohibition of it and one third are suggesting that the laws more thoroughly regulate it. Right there we see that there is a problem shown in results, because that means that only one third of Canadians support the current law.[1]
For the record, I stand against abortion in any form. In my opinion, every abortion kills one person who could have been the next Einstein, Bach, or Michelangelo. Nevertheless, according to Canada's census figures, doctors have been aborting approximately 100,000 babies annually for twenty years and according to the census, that rate is increasing![2] That is two million people from one generation just casually destroyed, and millions more destined to follow. That is in Canada alone, according to an article in Creation, worldwide doctors abort 25% of all unborn children, and that tallies to a whopping 50 million abortions every year![3] To put that into perspective, in Incredible comparisons, WWI killed an estimated 8.5 million in battle, WWII killed 16 million in battle, famine in China killed 30 million, black plague killed an estimated 75 million people![4] In 2.5 years, we kill more unborn people than people who died in wars, famine, and disease!
This is all fine and dandy unless you do not think of an abortion as a death, then this argument is rather pathetic. However, there are large physical and mental problems caused by abortions. The physical health risks range from higher risks of premature births to complete infertility. Those are minor, though, compared to things like chronic pelvic infection and breast cancer. An abortion does not cause breast cancer, however studies have shown that from a single abortion the risk of getting breast cancer increases by approximately thirty percent! This number increases exponentially with each subsequent abortion. In addition, later when finally that woman decides to have children, studies have shown that with one abortion the risk of premature delivery increases to thirty percent, and up to ninety percent with two![5]
Let us not down play the mental risks either. Studies performed on three continents showed a link between abortions and increased risks of depression, self-harm, and suicide.[6] One study proved that a woman who had an abortion was 63% more likely to receive mental care within two months of her abortion compared to a woman who did not have one.[7] Moreover, a woman who had an abortion was likely to have long-term depression problems. In conclusion, abortions have proven to have long reaching consequences ranging from cancer to mental instability. Abortions should stop either altogether or at least have the health risks publicized because people have a right to know.
[1] Western Standard June 4, 2007. p14
[2]Western Standard April 9, 2007. p14
[3]Creation 28(1) December 2005-February 2006. p21 last paragraph
[4]Russell Ash, Incredible Comparisons. 1996. p30.
[5]Diseases, and numbers from www.physiciansforlife.ca/html/life/abortion/articals/inducedabortioncancer.htm
[6]www.physiciansforlife.ca/html/life/abortion/articals/CBCGreatCanadianwish.htm
[7]www.physiciansforlife.ca/html/life/abortion/articals/abortionandhealth.htm

Projects again

No matter how hard we seem to work there's still something there in that fort that needs to be done.
Oh incidentally we did manage to take down the tree.Oddly enough we decided to have a small contest and tried to predict where it would land by driving stakes into the ground, the closest stake would win. Ted did win, with me in second but where I had placed my stake was my second guess.If my first guess that it would fall on Ted was allowed(nulled only because I couldn't drive my stake into him.) I would have been the closest. Before you take a hart attack, Ted didn't have the tree fall on him (it was pretty close though).

Any hoo, I manged to get a flag pole mounted. It only stands about 10 or 11 feet though so it can't really catch the wind. That will change when I get around to putting up the 50 foot one.

For no apparent purpose(well now that I think about it, it did have the purpose of saving space)
I stuck a tree into the ground in my fort. That may not sound amazing until you see that it has 9'6" foot hight and 1 foot diameter at the base. I mounted this piller using a crude A-frame and Ted. If there is ever any doubt that I did it,It is perfectly sawed off at the top and no one around here has the necessary equipment to do that to a standing tree.I did it mostly to demonstrate Sardion authority in technology, and fine arts(and that thing was so heavy that there was nothing else useful I could do with it).

Moving giants

Last Sunday we began working on the major sections of the fort.
I'm rather unsure where it came from but somewhere along the way grandiose plans began to emerge. Jonathan suggested that we move this large(25-30 foot) tree against a large section of exposed wall. This monster took Ted, Jonathan, and me well over two hours to move onto the wall. Today the plan is to topple an unsafe dead tree (well over 30 feet tall) in the fort. May we not hurt ourselves.


Pictures in order

1. Dormant beast
2. Indecision
3. Plans to actions
4. The end result

Annual Work

Some people have the traditional spring-cleaning around now; our family is busy with the spring lobster fishing. I have my traditional repairs on the Clan stronghold.



I made this "slip shod" piece of construction about 4 years ago, the outer wall 3 ½ years ago. Annually I have to make repairs on the outer wall due to winter weather (and composting) not to mention the fact that it is over 100 feet long. The inner keep however has managed to survive fairly well; I've only had to patch one hole over course of its life span, not bad for being made out of dead wood. Over the next month me, my brothers, and various other members of the Order of the Zaquren will be under taking the project of refortifying the outer wall (maybe we'll finally put a door on the west wall like I've meant to for the last 3 ½ years) . I intend to take pictures of the progress for the blog. This is the south Gate>

Kill the unborn world!

Ted was reading me something from one of his schoolbooks today; it both amazed and horrified me. He told me that about 65 million unborn children are aborted per year worldwide. I did some math and assuming that this rate continues for the next 100 years and each person conceives four children I have found that per 100 babies conceived about 52 will be aborted. If this rate continues for about 2000-3000 years, the population will decrease to less than 200 million people! I know not all of the numbers I'm using are 100% accurate, but if the rate I'm predicting is marginally right there will be less than 10 million people to worry about the supposed asteroid that is to hit earth 100 000 years from now.

You know, 10 million people could live in Tokyo, Japan with lots of room to spare (The current population of Tokyo is about 26,440,000 people).

Spain is Insignificant?

I was sitting at my desk taking a short break from my university course thinking about a particular video game I'm currently interested in. The game is called Civilization III a very interesting game. The game includes 16 different civilizations and a number of events from recorded history. Obviously, it is far from historically accurate being a video game but it includes a civilopedia, which not only tells how certain thing function in the game, it also gives an abbreviated account of its roll in history.

I was a little upset because I had decided which people to lead; I had decided to lead the Spanish empire, only to discover that the game did not include Spain! A little miffed I mentioned it to Ted sitting on the couch. He said, something along the lines of not having a significant leader in their history. (each nation is portrayed by a "portrait" of a significant historical figure i.e. Cleopatra.)
We spent the entire day arguing about it. It only recently ended with me calling him ignorant to world history, and him calling me a nitpicky video game nerd.

My basic point was that the game was lacking one of the most important nations in the history of the world! Had Spain not funded Christopher Columbus we might not exist in life as we know it today.
Oh, in response to Ted's challenge to finding a historically significant figure for Spain, Philip II.

Thanks Uncle Bill

This week I finished reading Call of the Wild by Jack London. It's a rather interesting book about how a dog is wrenched from life as he knows it and is turned into a sled dog. The time frame for this is during the Yukon gold rush. Oddly enough I got the book from Uncle Bill for Christmas and in the little note inside it said "direct from the Yukon". Cool. You know Uncle Bill to my memory has never managed to disappoint me at Christmas. I rarely get to see him yet he seems to get me the right gift. This meaning when I went to Grammy's I left the book I was reading home so when I opened this I had something to read. I could have finished it a lot sooner but when I got home I had lot's of other books to read (the down side to home school).