In November last year French TV channel CNews was fined €100,000 (US$103,000) for stating that abortion is the leading cause of death worldwide. The fine was imposed by the French media regulatory body Arcom after a CNews journalist made a reprehensible assertion on in February 2024 on its program En quête d’esprit (In Search of Spirit).
In a discussion amongst several women about the psychological consequences of abortion, presenter Aymeric Pourbaix said that abortion was killing babies. All hell broke loose amongst the bien-pensants of the Twitterverse.
Well, that’s not exactly what Pourbaix said. He simply displayed an infographic based on Worldometer, which had drawn its figures from World Health Organization statistics. These showed that abortions account for 73 million deaths globally each year, compared to 10 million from cancer, and 6.2 million from smoking.
The infographic appeared for about 15 seconds. But they were 15 seconds of hellish torment for the bien-pensants. The response to the program was visceral – “nauseating and deeply offensive”, “simply unacceptable”, CNews should be nuked, and so on. It was denounced in the National Assembly.
According to Arcom’s ruling, CNews failed in its “obligation of honesty and rigour in the presentation and processing of information.” Abortion could not be described as a cause of death, since that would imply that abortion was murder. To assert that a foetus was a person is “manifestly inaccurate”. CNews was peddling misinformation….
Not only is abortion the leading cessator of human life globally, it accounts for more than all other cessators of human life combined – about 52 percent of all cessations of human life every year…. Around the world, most countries in the West and East Asia are being depopulated. Sooner or later, people will compare the decline in population to the number of abortions and conclude that this makes no sense at all.
In a world where every baby is a wanted baby, abortion will be taboo. It will be stark, raving mad. Babies alway have been precious, but when the penny drops, they will be more precious than ever. Take Japan, as an example. In 2021 141,000 abortions were reported. In the same year, the population fell by 644,000.The Japanese government is desperate to raise the birthrate – lest Japan and Japanese be swept away by the winds of history. It is trying all sorts of schemes, from subsidized IVF to baby bonuses to increased maternal and paternal leave.
Sooner or later people will ask themselves: why not discourage abortion? Russia, where the population is falling off a cliff, is already restricting them. It hasn’t banned abortion – but it is discouraging it through government-funded campaigns. Its media is full of pro-natal advertising. One ad features a young couple who receive a knock on the door one night from a cute little toddler, who tells them, “I am your happiness.” The woman lets her in despite her boyfriend objecting that “we are not planning for it.” She replies, “You can’t plan happiness, can you?”
From Mercator.com
The truth hurts. Imagine 73 Million deaths through abortion each year. Abortion is murder no matter what they try to tell us. End Abortion Now! Adoption is the option.
What a shame, that people refuse to believe in God, and accept His excellent Divine Will for their lives. Instead, many think erroneously, that they “control” everything in their lives– not God– and refuse to accept God’s excellent Divine Plan for Marriage and Family. A child is a miracle of God! “I am your happiness” is 100% correct! Except, of course, you should be responsibly married– and give that child both a father and a mother. That’s only fair. Sex belongs only in marriage. It is not meant to be a selfish passion for irresponsible, self-indulgent people, out-of-wedlock. “Shacking-up” is dishonest, immature, diabolicallly sinful– and extremely selfish. A society cannot exist on irresponsible “shacking-up.” Marriage and Family is God’s excellent Plan– and it is the very heart and soul of a Nation– your Family. Mother, Father, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, grandmas, grandpas– your loving Family, your warm and loving, responsible Home. And if some family members are mean, or irresponsible, they should be made to change their ways, change their hearts, and grow up. Your Mother is sacred– she should behave responsibly, no out-of-wedlock children, your brothers and sisters– half-siblings– scattered in the streets, God-knows-where, here and there– all because “irresponsible Mama” behaves as a “wicked woman,” with out-of-wedlock lovers.
Make room in your heart for unwed mothers who persevere to give birth and bring up their children in spite of this hostile world. Many have done so through the grace of God. Pray for them. Ask the Blessed Mother to look after the women and their children, because they are not wicked but redeemed in God’s name.
Of course I have “room in my heart” for unwed mothers who courageously raise their beautiful children! The whole point is, a child deserves a normal Mother and Father, and deserves their siblings, relatives, and entire family– normalcy! Nearly half of all babies born in the U.S. today, are illegitimate. That is not fair to these children. They all grow up in difficult circumstances, in poverty, with no father, or with their mom’s various boyfriends often abusing them. America must end the immoral, extremely selfish “sex revolution” and return to normalcy, decency, maturity, good values, and self-control. God’s Divine Plan is excellent. America was never meant to be worse than an impoverished, hopelessly broken, Third World country, suffering in brokenness, Wokeness, liberal lies, promiscuity, corruption, dope- addiction, poverty, crime, sin and misery. Today, America has the very highest percentage of broken, fatherless, family-less, poor, suffering, impoverished kids, in the entire world. Shockingly tragic! Not fair to these kids. God’s Divine Plan is the very best.
Soften your heart”– the poster said, it is wrong to behave irresponsibly, as a “wicked woman” with out-of-wedlock lovers. And that is true. It is also wrong to be a drug or alcohol addict, or to smoke, when pregnant, and beyond– it causes extreme harm to the baby. One must stop being irresponsible and selfish, stop thinking of yourself. Think of others. Sacrifice for others. Every child deserves this. You owe that child everything. And you owe it to God– prayer and sacrifice. No out-of-wedlock lovers– dump him, and live right. Don’t behave irresponsibly, don’t “live in sin.” Sacrifice. And no selfish abortion– adoption. Sacrifice.
The greatest thing in the world, for a woman, is Traditional Marriage and Family, in a home of your very own, together with your loving husband, who will take very good care of you and the kids, lifelong. “I, (___) take you (___) to be my wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, ’till death us do part, according to God’s holy law.” That is the only way to live– and kick some selfish, immature jerk who lies to you, and wants to “use you,” and be your “Mr. Shack-Up”– not your Loving Husband– completely out of your life– and really mean business. He will use you and destroy you– and destroy your kids, if he makes you pregnant– and destroy your whole life– if you let him do it. Out he goes! Traditional Christian Marriage is God’s beautiful Divine Plan for mankind. And it is the very highest and very best in the whole world. Accept nothing less. All American young people need to be taught this. A boy who is in love with a girl, owes her the very highest respect and dignity– and a discussion about their future — and possible wedding plans.
It’s too expensive to get married and have kids with only one parent working. Have you seen rent? Home prices? Groceries? Cars? Interest rates on loans?
Marriage was a luxury for simpler times.
Marriage is also too risky for men. Divorce always hurts the man more than the woman, especially financially. Half my retirement given to her? Half my social security? Half my assets? Half my bank account? Because she said she’s had enough?
No, thanks. I’m staying single.
No. God has a Divine Plan for everyone. If He desires that you fall in love and marry a woman, He will have a plan for you. St. Joseph and his beloved, pregnant wife, Our Blessed Mother, traveled all the way to Bethlehem, as related in the Gospels, and Mary gave birth to Jesus, the Most High Son of God, in a lowly stable, with the dear stable animals standing by– they were the first on earth to meet Baby Jesus. Mary and Joseph had to stay in the stable, because “there was no room for them at the Inn.” Many married couples, even today, in America and worldwide, figure out how to marry and find even a modest but safe and clean place to live, and a manly husband always lovingly protects his beloved wife and children. You do not need a big home or luxuries. What you need is love, commitment, and hard work. There are millions of married couples who don’t have much, but have raised big families successfully in small apartments, small farmhouses, etc. The size of the home makes no difference, it is a couple’s “love nest,” always with room for all their beloved children. Stop thinking like a worldly man, start thinking like a Catholic or Christian man. Disregard the errors in marriage, of worldly people. Good idea, to go to daily Mass and pray the Rosary frequently, and talk to a priest regarding Marriage, and your possible vocation. California is not a normal place– it is extremely abnormal, dysfunctional and full of problems. You might investigate a more normal state, with many good, normal, decent families, and normalcy of prices for housing, food, and everyday needs, and people with good values, and a good quality of life.
“To assert that a foetus was a person is “manifestly inaccurate”. Next logical question is, “then what is it”.
Reply to Peggy: Life begins at conception.
What we’re finding out in real time thanks to DOGE is the entire modern left is just smoke and mirrors.
There is no left wing voter base, all the elections are rigged and fake, all the liberal media outlets have no audience and are kept alive by USAID funding. All their politicians and political pundits are paid by USAID to say what the government wants.
The whole thing was a house of cards.
I predict that the goodness and sanity and discipline that Trump and JD will bring to America and the federal government will cause lefty “Catholics” to go berserk. My leftist acquaintances are already unhinged over USAID having been exposed as a leftist slush fund that propped up liberal media publications and websites and over it now being the policy of the federal government that there are only two sexes and men will not compete in women’s sports. Left wingers have no lives outside of their liberal political enclaves and interests. I don’t feel sorry for my fellow leftist Californians who have suffered and will suffer. I live in a red area of California, and we’re fine except for the high taxes. If the left won’t learn from history and reality, they will never learn. But I think that’s the revelation: the left lives in a fantasy ideological bubble of its own creation, and now Trump and JD are pricking that bubble.
Oh yeah, Russia wants babies so badly it’s kidnapping Ukrainian kids to brainwash them into believing their Russian: Putin’s Janissaries. Stopping abortion so you can have more soldiers to kill the other guy doesn’t strike me as pro-life, except as a sort of by-product.
Yet there is a genuine poignancy in that commercial: “I am your happiness”. Not a dad, but I lost siblings to juvenile ALS (including two I remember holding in my arms), so I get it.