Posted on 08/29/2014 5:59:53 AM PDT by wagglebee
If you live in Ontario and enjoy a bottle of wine with dinner or a couple beers after getting the yard work finished, you will be exposed to an aggressive marketing campaign the next time you hit the local LCBO to purchase your booze. The government-owned liquor distribution branch launched an advertising blitz this week with a goal of educating consumers about the dangers of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).
In addition to installing a series of captivating posters at their approximately 640 stores and outlets, LCBO staff will also be required to watch a video designed to educate them as to the complications with FAS and other disorders related to drinking while pregnant.
Suffice it to say, this is an expensive awareness campaign. But the financial implications are not the troubling aspect. Indeed, most people would easily justify the use of tax dollars to ensure babies have as healthy a start to life as possible.
My full-time job is to advocate for the very children this campaign is drawing attention to. So when I heard about this campaign, the realization quickly set in that something doesn’t jive here. On the one hand we (society and government) are concerned about the health of a developing child in the womb, and on the other we allow them to be aborted for reasons as flippant as inopportune timing.
Don’t get me wrong, prenatal health is very important, but why the double standard? When some Canadians call for the legal protection of fetuses they are accused of meddling with a woman’s rights and infringing on her bodily autonomy, but should that same woman choose to drink while pregnant she is condemned as negligent.
The provincial government in Ontario, which operates the LCBO, will no doubt be investing millions of dollars in this FAS campaign to ensure that every preborn baby has a healthy start to life outside the womb. The campaign is designed to make society generally and pregnant women specifically to think carefully before drinking while pregnant. Meanwhile, that same government is spending similar amounts of money every year to pay for the abortion of one in four pre-born babies. For 25% of Ontario babies, their “healthy start” comes to a very quick and violent end.
Public awareness campaigns focused on pregnancy and drinking expose a cognitive dissonance in our society. You want to kill your baby before birth? No problem. We’ll even pay for it. But don’t you dare have a glass of wine while pregnant! And if you do, we’ll shame you with a million dollar advertising blitz.
This alcohol and pregnancy awareness campaign, when compared with Canada’s lack of any legal protection for children in the womb, makes absolutely no sense. Canada’s shame of being the only Western nation without an abortion law is untenable and totally inconsistent with what science teaches about the most vulnerable members of the human family. Thankfully, with advances in medicine and treatment, babies born with FAS can still lead a productive life. Unfortunately this does not hold true for aborted babies.
Prior to seeing the plethora of ads in the coming weeks, a pregnant woman may have been unaware of the serious complications that drinking while pregnant could have on her pre-born child. For this reason alone, the LCBO campaign is a good one. It is high time that society is also made aware of what abortion does to preborn children. Only then will the cognitive dissonance finally resolve. Only then will human rights finally apply to all human beings.
More has been done to advance human rights in the last century than was done in all of history leading up to it, yet during this period over ONE BILLION babies have been murdered in the womb.
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Because it’s OK to drink before an abortion, as it won’t cause any additional harm? /S
The same reason government forces me to wear a seat belt in my car but helmets on a motorcycle are optional.
Don’t smoke, don’t drink alcohol, don’t do drugs but it’s ok to cut them up and vacuum them out.
All the people I know with autistic children were teetotalers. Granted I have a limited data set, but it makes you wonder.
OH! You want to kill it.
Pardon us, we thought you just wanted to harm the baby.
New evidence hidden by the honorable Center for Disease Control indicates a strong link to the MMR vaccine.
The Canadian government run liquor stores are creepy. Hard to find and restricted and sterile.
Aw, heck. Drink all you want then just suck that “clump of cells” out of there. /uber sarc/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1497666/
Autism Spectrum disorder, according to mu observation, has increased a ridiculous amount.
According to this NIH report of 2004, it increased from under 3 in 10,000 to over 20 in 10,000 from 1970 to 2004 in GB and USA.
another report shows the incidence up tremendously from 2004 to now, 1 in 150 to 1 in 88.
That a ten year old article comes up first is what is most alarming. People are not talking about this.
The etiology is not discussed.
People who don’t want to know or face it say it’s better diagnosed now than in 1970.
Wrongo.
Anyone with a cursory involvement with a community that involves children knows that there are a lot of boys running around with a serious condition not seen in 1970s, 1980s or 1990s.
I don’t like the bombardment of pharmaceuticals, antibiotics for ear infections which could be prevented by breast feeding, which has also been usurped by pharmaceutical industry, nor the vaccines, which contain ridiculous preservatives, and are forced on these kids sometimes 5 at a time, and right after birth, when the kid just wants his mom.
But my guess is that, since a study is not forthcoming from NIH on an initial google search, that it is not something they want to get into. Corruption?
Fetal ultrasounds
Because it’s about what the woman WANTS. If you WANT it, it’s a baby and you shouldn’t hurt it. If you DON’T want it, it doesn’t matter what you do with ‘it’. If you change your mind anywhere along the process it immediately stops being a human baby and becomes an IT. It’s magic!
Great point.
I have used this argument for years. I will ask a pro-abort if it is ok for a pregnant woman to drink a quart of vodka every day. Of course not, they say. I ask why not, it’s HER body, right? Silence.
Early dose and primary effect on those of african decent.
Based on this and other information. The problem is not necessarily the MMR vaccine, but how early it is given. There is clear evidence that first year administration of MMR is contraindicated. Any other conclusions at this time are not supported by the science.
This is a great question for abortion advocates that defies logical explanation.
Make ya wonder don’t it?
Nutritionist are the real cause of modern health problems.
Straight out of Seinfeld where Elaine warns the pregnant fortune teller not to drink and in another episode advocates vehemently for abortion rights. What a @!!! hypocrite!@!!!
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