A first roundup of news and commentary for 2022. Buckle up.
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For those interested, our intrepid pro-life researcher Pat Maloney has the 2020/2021 abortion numbers for Ontario—although they are, because this is Canada, incomplete. It is nearly impossible to get good data in this country.
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Because our culture has lost all semblance of sanity and is spiralling wildly out of control, it appears that COVID-19 patients may soon be eligible for assisted suicide in New Zealand. (In Germany, by the way, those who wish to die by suicide must be fully vaccinated. You can’t make this stuff up. You wouldn’t want to.)
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The “metaverse” (if you don’t know what that is, lucky you) is already experiencing its #MeToo moment. According to the Technology Review: “The metaverse has a groping problem already.” Essentially, Meta—formerly Facebook—is social media fused with virtual reality, and people trying it out have already been groped in virtual reality. Which, for people who choose to live in virtual reality, is a big deal.
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This is a very thought-provoking piece on narratives, story-telling, and the January 6 riot by Jonah Goldberg (the author of Liberal Fascism.) Check your biases and give it a read.
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Anthony Esolen has penned a new essay titled “Hope for America” that is the best thing I have ever read on the subject: “The time of naive optimism about America’s future is over. A return to the mature hope held by the Pilgrims and pioneers begins.”
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Canadian Physicians for Life asks a heartbreaking question as Ontario enters the next round of COVID lockdowns: “How likely is it that some Canadians are opting for assisted suicide in order to be exceptionally allowed visitors?”
The New York Times reports that five prenatal tests for rare genetic disorders are wrong most of the time, with some tests achieving 93 percent inaccuracy. These pre-natal test results have led expectant mothers to abort their healthy pregnancies.
I know dozens of stories of parents who were told there would be something wrong with their baby and everything turned out fine. You probably know some, too. Those stories have happy endings—untold thousands of babies have been aborted due to false diagnoses. An unfolding tragedy.
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The Economistcontinues to expose the poisonous effects of gender ideology, this time in a January 8 column titled: “Trans ideology is distorting the training of America’s doctors.”
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This powerful column by Dr. John Maher on how Canada’s assisted suicide regime is exploiting the vulnerable is an absolute must-read.
