Health Canada and RU-486: fatalities, endometritis, salpingitis and haemorrhages

From Health Canada's website:

"Analysis of the pivotal trials revealed that the average bleeding time was 10.8 days including 2 days of heavy bleeding. The majority of adverse events reported were transient and mild to moderate in severity. The medication causes vaginal bleeding and commonly induced pain and cramping, which required pain medication in some women. The other adverse events more commonly reported were diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever/chills, headache, dizziness and weakness. Treatment failure (which was defined as viable pregnancy, non-viable persistent pregnancy, persistent bleeding and abdominal pain that required a surgical termination of pregnancy) was reported in 2% to 4.8% of women. 

A small number of patients who took Mifegymiso presented more serious complications, such as pelvic infections (endometritis, salpingitis [inflammation of the fallopian tubes]) and vaginal haemorrhages. Rare cases of fatalities were reported, therefore access to emergency care which can provide gynaecological surgical procedures, antibiotic intravenous therapy and blood transfusion in the rare cases where complications occur, is recommended in the labelling to ensure patient’s safety."

Tax dollars go to Planned Parenthood Ottawa

From my friend Anastasia:

So, Planned Parenthood Canada is a little different than the US. To the best of my knowledge, they do not operate abortion clinics, but they do offer abortion information and referrals and a whole lot more of what Planned Parenthood Ottawa proudly calls " inclusive pro-choice sexual health education" that is pretty awful. 
 
Do your tax dollars pay them? You bet! And you might be surprised (or offended) by who else helps them. Page 15 of the 2012-2013 Annual Report for Planned Parenthood Ottawa indicates that they received $103,117 ----close to half their revenues--from the City of Ottawa alone. Another "Core and Project Funder" is the Ontario Trillium Foundation which apparently is funded by Ontario government lotteries. 
 
Additional "event sponsors" included "The Canadian Museum of War", the "National Arts Centre", "the Museum of Civilization" etc. etc. Wait a minute. Aren't they government funded too? Well the NAC just received $110 million from the federal government for renos--presumably so our tax dollars can help them to "sponsor" PPO events. Other "event sponsors" included Al's Steakhouse, Les Suites, the Radisson and Bridgehead, to name a few. I might just send their management a note letting them know just what I think of PP and their kind and why I might not want to frequent any establishment that supports them. 
 
You can check out the Annual Report here: http://www.ppottawa.ca/cms/upload/dir/ppo/Documents/Annual%20Reports/Annual%20Report%202012for%20Web.pdf  The pertinent donor pages are 14 and 15. Worth taking a look 

David Daleiden and PPFA - going out towards the margins of human experience

Meet the Filmmaker Exposing Planned Parenthood

"...They set their price per specimen—which is per aborted baby or baby part. The amount of money they received for those body parts far exceeds any real or imagined costs they have in supplying them. 

Planned Parenthood doesn’t do shipping or packaging—all of that is handled by the middleman biotech companies that they sell to. And those groups sent all of their own people in to handle all the processing of the specimens. 

So Planned Parent does nothing, yet they still are receiving $50, $75, or $100 per specimen. So they are clearly selling fetal tissue for valuable consideration and for a profit—and that is very clearly against the law. 

... 

I am Catholic, and I am a really big fan of Pope Francis. He has been a huge inspiration to me over the past couple of years, especially while doing this project. 

Pope Francis’s emphasis on not being closed in on yourself but always moving forward and always being willing to go out towards the margins of human experience—in order to bring the gospel to those margins—was a huge inspiration to me during this project. I don’t think there’s any place more on the existential margins of society than an abortion clinic. 

I think that when you have a place like an abortion clinic—which is a place where children are killed on an industrial scale—there is almost a sacramental value in bringing a presence to those places. We were there for good, out of love, and to welcome those children for the brief time that they will be in existence before they die. And to be in contact with and pray for all the abortion workers, the abortion doctors who are there. 

As a Christian you are part of the body of Christ. So your presence, even in those darkest of places, can bring the presence of Jesus."

Mauril Belanger: will he win in Ottawa-Vanier again?

I wonder how many residents of Ottawa-Vanier know that our current MP Mauril Belanger is pro-choice? I wonder if they realize that his party's leader, Justin Trudeau, has banned pro-life people from being candidates in this riding? Something to think about.

Justin Trudeau: watch this before you decide

The Canadian election was called yesterday. So who to vote for? Well early days, but in case you're thinking of voting for Justin Trudeau, I suggest you watch this video first.