Pro-lifer?

Also in The Sunday Times was this story about Avril Lavigne allegedly being a pro-lifer:

Amnesty International risks alienating some of its high-profile rock star backers in the row over its decision to support women’s access to abortion.

The group has been accused of “duping” the singers Christina Aguilera and Avril Lavigne, who have both made statements against abortion and are among contributors to an Amnesty CD released to raise money for survivors of the atrocities in Darfur.

And I was going to write something about it but then, having googled it, I came across this post on The Guardian site which pretty much dealt with the complete stupidity of the article meaning there was little point in continuing.

My googling did throw up a couple of things though. Firstly there's the change from "both made statements against abortion" in The Sunday Times article to "both of whom have made emphatic statements against abortion" in this story (need to scroll down a bit). The only citation in The Sunday Times article was of an Avril Lavigne song being used on a pro-life Youtube video, how this constitutes a statement, nevermind an emphatic one by Avril Lavigne is pretty much beyond me. I went through pages of google results looking for these statements and came across absolutely nothing.

(I'll take time out to say that I don't buy The Sunday Times. I go round my parents' house for Sunday dinner, I need a decent meal at least once a week, and read it there, along with the Mail on Sunday...)

The other thing was this site, a site for Catholic teenagers which had a helpful review of The Best Damn Thing:

Like me, you may find yourself listening to this album with a skeptical ear. And you, like me, may find yourself liking The Best Damn Thing. There may be some sketchy content, but it’s undeniable that Avril Lavigne has an energy in her music that not many artists can match. Listen to the edited, RCA version, while keeping in mind that some of Lavigne’s ideas about relationship aren’t necessarily Catholic ideas about relationships

The strangest thing being that under "objectionable content" there is this sentence "And in “I Don’t Have to Try,” you’ll hear a song about a taking full control of a relationship." It's a sin to take full control of a relationship? And on reflection the sentence is badly written as well. Now that's a sin.