Kelowna's place for pro life news and updates. Joyce Arthur Gets it From Chilean Researcher. A mere days after Canada's foremost abortion advocate and Vancouver resident Joyce "Choice Joyce" Arthur was schooled by The American Association of Pro Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a Chilean researchers has rubbed salt in her wounds by refuting her claim that the legalization of abortion is the answer to high maternal death rates in developing countries around the globe. Elard Koch, M.Sc, Ph.D of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Chile points to the factors responsible for a huge decline in maternal deaths in Chile in recent decades including skilled birth attendants and education. In Chile, where abortion is strictly forbidden, maternal mortality have decreased from 293.7 deaths per 100,000 live births to 18.2 in the last 50 years, and the abortion mortality ratio decreased from 92.5 to 1.7 in that same time period. 3rd Annual BC March for Life, May 13th. The 3rd annual BC March for Life is set to go for Thursday, May 13th beginning at 2:00 pm from Centennial Square in downtown Victoria. The march, expected to be attended by as many as 2,000 people, will make its way down Douglas Street and arrive at the Legislative Buildings at 2:30 pm. From there, attendees will be treated to musical guests and speakers Bishop Monroe of Kamloops, BC, Jose Ruba of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform, Minerva Macapagal of the Capilano College Pro Life club, Dr. Robert Fitterer, and Rachel Daniels. The rally is scheduled to wind up at 3:30 pm. This year's rally is sponsored by a number of BC pro life groups, including BC Campaign Life Coalition and the Knights of Columbus. Maddow Interviews Pelosi, Textbook Liberal Journalism. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi represents the quintessential pro-abortion politician. MSNBC newscaster Rachel Maddow is among the most liberal of all liberal newscasters currently on the air. Together, they make for a delightful (cough, cough) trip down the rabbit hole of left-wing journalism that few dare to take. Watch how Maddow, in her typical condescending and sarcastic manner toward everything republican, attempts to make a jittery Pelosi look good. Lesbians Complain about Law Prohibiting Gamete Sales in Canada. Kathryn Blaze Carlson at the National Post is reporting that much of the focus at the recent International Women's Day Conference in Toronto was on the need to address Canada's laws surrounding reproductive technologies. Apparently, the restriction on the buying and selling of gametes is forcing those looking to have children the new-fashioned way into "dangerous alternatives" including a gamete black market and having to lie to their physicians. Her report definitely slants toward the acceptance of "alternative" family structures in Canada, but does at least hint at the complexities and the legal and moral quagmires such arrangements have for children, gamete donors, future generations, and society in general. Georgia Moves to Outlaw Race/Sex Selection Abortion. A bill to prohibit abortion motivated by the sex or race of the unborn baby has cleared its first hurdle in the Georgia legislature. A committee of 13 voted 7-6 to move the bill to the next stage: clearance by a Rules committee. Pro lifers in the state are emboldened by the victory and are confident the measure can become law, while pro-abortionists are making the "reducing access to health care for minorities and the poor" claim in response. In the state of Georgia, Blacks make up 30% of the population but account for 57% of all abortion, and abortion throughout the U.S. are heavily weighted toward minorities. Click here for more. Joyce Arthur Gets Schooled by American Pro Life OBGYNs. Canada's "go-to abortion gal" Joyce Arthur recently threw in her $.02 worth concerning Michael Ignatieff's demands that Canadians fund and promote abortion overseas in an effort to improve maternal health. Now, if you've ever read a Joyce Arthur offering, you will quickly come across deception, slick rhetoric, and even outright untruths. The American Association of Pro Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists seems to agree, as they took the time to carefully dissect Arthur's latest in this thorough and well-researched rebuttal sent to office of pro life MP Maurice Vellacott. RCMP Officer Allows Counter Protesters to Block Pro Life Display. Pro Life groups on university campuses have for years battled student unions and even university administrations who consistently work to suppress and censor their activities. Despite this opposition, students at the University of British Columbia have managed to hold Genocide Awareness Projects quite regularly over the years. This last time out, however, the demonstrators were met with a group of loud, feministas determined to block them from displaying the truth of abortion to fellow students, and the counter-protesters seemed to have a valuable ally in the form of an RCMP Office. The officer seemed to have no problem with what the counter-protesters were up to, as he chums up with the pro-abortionists and allows them to continue blocking the display without even insisting they provide their names. Justice Roberts Chides Obama's State of The Union. Arguably, the most important contribution President George W. Bush made for the pro life cause while he was in office was to appoint two conservative justices, Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, to the Supreme Court. Both justices have proven to be reliable constitutionalists (and many believe that both would vote to overturn Roe v Wade if given the opportunity) which puts them at odds with Obama's staunch liberal, pro-abortion views. That ideological divide showed itself during the State of the Union Address when BHO decided it would be appropriate to scold the high court for a recent decision. Now, Chief Justice Roberts is criticizing that decision and the State of the Union Address in general. Click here for more. March 10 is "Abortionist Appreciation Day." Apparently, abortion groups across the U.S. celebrate something called "abortionist appreciation day" on March 10 of each year. Given that recent years have seen a decline in abortionists, the occasion seems to be an attempt to offer incentive to physicians who may be open to the idea of killing unborn children for a living. The folks at Operation Rescue, however, have a different opinion on the idea. The group has done a good job of assembling information on many women and families who have every reason to be very unappreciative of abortionists. 40 Days for Life Reaches 1/2 Way Point. The international 40 Days for Life 2010 Spring campaign is now 1/2 over and, according to organizers, at least 209 babies have been saved thus far. Here in Kelowna, several interesting stories have surfaced during the local effort. In one incident, a woman in her 40's approached the site and confided in volunteers that she had had an abortion 20 years prior and was still hurting emotionally from it. In another, a construction worker emerged from the hospital upgrade project and expressed his/her struggle with the idea that he/she was helping to build an abortion mill. Again, volunteers empathized with the young person and attempted to help him/her deal with the experience. In addition, many people expressed approval or disapproval of the effort as they passed by on foot or in their vehicles (go here to see a pro-abortionist kick over one of the vigil signs in disgust, and set an example of tolerance for 2 young children in the process). Woman Who Tweeted Live Abortion Interviewed by CNN. A woman going by the name "Angie the Anti-Theist" who used internet sites twitter and youtube to broadcast live her own chemical abortion has been interviewed by CNN. In the exclusive interview Angie claims that if she gets pregnant again, she would obviously have another abortion. Meanwhile, her interviewer, Kyla Phillips, refrained from asking her any difficult questions or presenting the pro life view (although she did refer to the dead child as a "child" at one point), instead choosing to ask easy questions and highlight harsh posts on her blogs apparently left by angry pro lifers. Phillips concludes the interview by describing Angie's experience as "very interesting" and "fascinating." Pro Abort Bloggers Claim Pro Lifers Are "Racially Paternalistic." As Georgia Right to Life and Life Dynamics continue to garner national attention for exposing Planned Parenthood's agenda to reduce or even eliminate the Black population through birth control and abortion, abortion advocates are responding with the mantra that their behaviour is really "racial paternalism" at its worst. As this Newsbusters.org reports, several bloggers and pundits are criticizing the effort on behalf of pro lifers to draw attention to this tragedy. CNN contributor Tanya Acker states that "It seems as if anti-choice strategists are suggesting that African-American women need to be saved from themselves and their own freely made choices – or worse yet, that the African-American community needs to be saved from its women."