A fan of an activity is concerned mainly with observing other men engaged in that activity. I have been a fan of politics and for the same reason I have been a fan of fistfighting. That is, I would expect to dislike the consequence of joining in.
This weekend has been a time for fans of politics in Canada. But I have not been following the match. The match in question, you see, has been to decide who will lead the federal Liberal Party of Canada. In this I am hardly a fan since I expect to dislike the result even of simple observation.
Because truly, Good Reader, absent a natural cataclysm on the very spot, or a mighty gas leak and fortuitous strike-anywhere match, or a great bunch of tainted quiches, what good can come when a lot of liberals get together?
By all accounts leading into the thing the race was between a barely-reformed marxist and a most distasteful academic. Both lost. Alas I do not know how because I was not paying attention. I regret that a little bit now. By no means do I greet this with the unbridled joy and giddy celebration which the aforesaid quiche mishap or well-aimed typhoon would have elicited, but it is not without pleasure for me.
I am, in any case, completely at a loss to comment on the victory of one Stephane Dion. I don’t even know what the man stands for. But liberals stand for very little of anything outside the latrine and never anything virtuous, so I expect not to like him.
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Friday, December 01, 2006
Medicalized Birth is of the Devil
Some months back now, I wrote that I meant to post on why organic food, medicalized birth, and women’s suffrage are each and all of the Devil. Organic food having been duly denounced a month ago, I move on.
I thought it best to do medicalized birth first, and then to post on women’s suffrage. This to better annoy people who need annoying. I mean to lure in the hippies and feminists and weirdos with a nice talk about natural childbirth and then wallop them with the suffrage thing.
Or so I hope. But to the topic.
In discussing medicalized birth it is not my purpose to contest the usefulness of scientific advancement. Emergencies can occur that demand health-preserving and lifesaving measures. This I do not dispute.
But that no urgent necessity drives the great majority of medical interventions preformed on normal birthing mothers is also well documented. I mean not to discuss this either.
I do not here advocate recourse to witchdoctors or quacks, neither the chanting of hindoo or like mantras nor the beating of bongos on mountainsides, or off.
Women seem to bear guilt for all class of reason and unreason, especially as concern those topics as birth, breastfeeding, and whatnot near to their tender hearts. As such, I hasten to add that I, being a gentle and kind chap, do not mean here to accuse or to burden additionally.
What aims are not mine being thus clarified, I move to the purpose of the work. I mean to expose medicalized birth as a tool of darkness that binds mothers and fathers to dangerous patterns of thought and behaviour that undermine the Family from its earliest and most defenseless time.
Natural childbirth improves rates of success in breastfeeding. Birthing demonstrates to a woman the perhaps hitherto unimagined depth of her abilities and to her husband the completeness of her reliance, and the child's, upon him. These, among other things indicate that birth is designed by nature to solidify a marriage and set parents on the path of successful parenting. God's plan tends to work rather well when you keep from messing with it.
Conversely (brilliant lights and stainless steel aside) induction of labour, medication for pain, constant electronic fetal monitoring, and such, cannot help but indicate to a mother that she is not especially well equipped to birth her baby. " 'best leave it to the experts, Luv". So it goes.
Worse still, parents who undergo all this are often left full of gratitude for the intrusion. If stories are to be believed, nearly every birth involves a crisis that necessitates a medical intervention, so faulty is the plan of the Almighty.
When a mother has been convinced she is not the slightest bit able to handle this most primary function of motherhood, will she not consider herself inadequate for the rest? Correspondingly the father is unimpressed by his wife’s apparent ineptitude and cowed by his own uselessness.
Can we be surprised then, when parents are thence so willing to hand over their children to the supposed experts? Indeed one Canadian Minister of the Crown went so far as to say that parents who do not dump their children in state-run day care are akin to parents who will not take a sick child to the doctor.
In this unfortunate era when ostensible experts propose to expropriate our children through day-care, ruin their purity through immoral sexual propaganda, and cripple their intellects through shoddy state-run education, we ought not to begin in a way apt to persuade us that these are good things.
I thought it best to do medicalized birth first, and then to post on women’s suffrage. This to better annoy people who need annoying. I mean to lure in the hippies and feminists and weirdos with a nice talk about natural childbirth and then wallop them with the suffrage thing.
Or so I hope. But to the topic.
In discussing medicalized birth it is not my purpose to contest the usefulness of scientific advancement. Emergencies can occur that demand health-preserving and lifesaving measures. This I do not dispute.
But that no urgent necessity drives the great majority of medical interventions preformed on normal birthing mothers is also well documented. I mean not to discuss this either.
I do not here advocate recourse to witchdoctors or quacks, neither the chanting of hindoo or like mantras nor the beating of bongos on mountainsides, or off.
Women seem to bear guilt for all class of reason and unreason, especially as concern those topics as birth, breastfeeding, and whatnot near to their tender hearts. As such, I hasten to add that I, being a gentle and kind chap, do not mean here to accuse or to burden additionally.
What aims are not mine being thus clarified, I move to the purpose of the work. I mean to expose medicalized birth as a tool of darkness that binds mothers and fathers to dangerous patterns of thought and behaviour that undermine the Family from its earliest and most defenseless time.
Natural childbirth improves rates of success in breastfeeding. Birthing demonstrates to a woman the perhaps hitherto unimagined depth of her abilities and to her husband the completeness of her reliance, and the child's, upon him. These, among other things indicate that birth is designed by nature to solidify a marriage and set parents on the path of successful parenting. God's plan tends to work rather well when you keep from messing with it.
Conversely (brilliant lights and stainless steel aside) induction of labour, medication for pain, constant electronic fetal monitoring, and such, cannot help but indicate to a mother that she is not especially well equipped to birth her baby. " 'best leave it to the experts, Luv". So it goes.
Worse still, parents who undergo all this are often left full of gratitude for the intrusion. If stories are to be believed, nearly every birth involves a crisis that necessitates a medical intervention, so faulty is the plan of the Almighty.
When a mother has been convinced she is not the slightest bit able to handle this most primary function of motherhood, will she not consider herself inadequate for the rest? Correspondingly the father is unimpressed by his wife’s apparent ineptitude and cowed by his own uselessness.
Can we be surprised then, when parents are thence so willing to hand over their children to the supposed experts? Indeed one Canadian Minister of the Crown went so far as to say that parents who do not dump their children in state-run day care are akin to parents who will not take a sick child to the doctor.
In this unfortunate era when ostensible experts propose to expropriate our children through day-care, ruin their purity through immoral sexual propaganda, and cripple their intellects through shoddy state-run education, we ought not to begin in a way apt to persuade us that these are good things.
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crushing error,
marriage,
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