Those who are strongly opposed to abortion on moral grounds in Canada may not be aware that the ground is slowly shifting on this issue. It is easy to miss these subtle changes taking place since we are barraged daily by the mainstream media which presents abortion as an absolute entitlement and permits no debate on the issue. According to the woke left-wing aristocracy of the Liberal government, and feminists, there is only one position recognized in Canada – that abortion be readily available for any reason.
The following is a clear-eyed analysis of the current pro-life landscape.
The Media Cone of Silence on Abortion is Broken
Due to the enormous funding given only to feminist groups by the federal and provincial governments over the past fifty years, feminism has prospered with the result that its perspective on abortion has become the dominant public view in Canada.
This has occurred even though the feminist movement is controlled by a handful of professional feminists, and despite the fact that feminism is not generally acceptable in Canada. Feminists have also established the concept that its ideology represents the only legitimate voice of women on abortion and on all other issues affecting women. This is absurd because women, just like men, have differing opinions based on life experience, education, culture, and faith, etc. There is no single voice for women on any issue.
Feminists ignore the biological and psychological differences between men and women, and insist that the sexes are identical and interchangeable. Consequently, they argue that women must be empowered by being employed in the marketplace just like men, in order to be recognized and respected. They believe that paid employment must be a woman’s priority in life and unpaid work in the home must cease. Further, feminists believe there must be no impediment to women’s work in the paid labour force. The worst impediment to a feminist is a pregnancy, which must be obliterated as quickly and as efficiently as possible by unrestricted access to abortion, without hesitation or debate.
In addition, they demanded silence on the abortion issue after 1988 when the Canadian Supreme Court struck down the abortion law on technical grounds. This silence has recently been broken by the National Post newspaper when it published a lengthy article on October 1, 2024, on abortion written by Peter Baklinski, Director of Communications, Campaign Life Coalition. On November 22, 2025, the National Post published a front-page story on the experience of Alissa Golob, co-founder of the pro-life group Right Now, who, while in the latter part of pregnancy with her third child, consulted clinics located in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver requesting an abortion and was informed that it would be an acceptable procedure even though there was no medical necessity for one. This certainly put the lie to the argument of pro-abortionists that late-term abortions are rarely performed in Canada. They are readily obtained. In the same issue of the National Post, in an editorial entitled, “National Debate Needed on Abortions”, it was stated as follows:
The lack of knowledge about what is taking place across Canada [on abortion] makes it hard for Canadians to have a rational conversation about what, if any limits, should be placed on abortion … Yet the fact remains that Canada is an outlier in the western world. Not only do our peer countries … have abortion laws, they by and large, outlaw the termination of pregnancy far earlier than 24 weeks … A serious country should be able to have a national debate and come up with a solution …
Further, popular National Post columnist, Chris Selley, usually noted for his trendy opinions, wrote a column on November 26, 2025, in which he stated, “As it [abortion] ends a life, every abortion is regrettable”. He also stated, at the same time, in the same column, undoubtedly to protect himself from abuse by pro-abortion activists, that he supports the status quo on abortion. His honest assessment that abortion ends a human life was a surprise. There has been little public backlash to his column. The National Post article of November 22 did receive 1,700 comments, mostly positive with, of course, a few dissenters. Only a few years ago there was a campaign by left-wing activists to have conservative columnist, Rex Murphy, removed from the pages of the National Post for daring to express conservative views. Times have changed.
Feminism is Fading
The feminist movement has been the single most powerful force promoting abortions in Canada. Its fundamental principle is that access to abortion must be unrestricted. This position has been endorsed by government paid journalists in the media and also the Liberal government so that any restrictions on abortion have become a politically toxic issue. However, feminism is fading from the public’s consciousness because feminists must now compete with other left-wing special interest groups defined by identity, such as race, ethnicity, LGBTQ, gender, etc. All these groups are constantly clamoring about their grievances, demanding recognition and, of course, government funding For the past 50 years, feminists have received billions of dollars from the government agency, the Status of Women (now renamed, since 2018, Women and Gender Equality (WAGE)). The latter is now distributing funds to other diverse groups besides feminists.
Volunteer Pregnancy Care Centres are Increasing
Volunteer Pregnancy Care Centres are becoming more prevalent, offering women an alternative to abortion. There are no new abortion clinics being opened, and those that are still in operation are experiencing a decreasing number of clients, i.e. pregnant women seeking abortions. These falling numbers, however, are not due to a lack of demand, but rather, are due to the development of the abortion pill which has reduced the number of surgical abortions.
The Battle Over Charitable Status
The battle for pro-life groups and Pregnancy Care Centres began under Justin Trudeau, whose 2021 election platform policy called for their charitable status cancellation. Since that time, the Liberal government has striven mightily, using various strategies, to achieve this goal, but it has been unsuccessful in its efforts for legal and Charter (constitutional) reasons. The Liberal government has now retreated from this battle, presumably to regroup in other attempts to defeat the pro-life movement and its influence in Canada. For example, the Liberal government is still handing out grants for the Summer Jobs Program only to supporters of abortion, and deliberately denying grants to pro-life organizations. This discriminatory practice, however, has not gone unnoticed, forgotten or forgiven. It faces the same legal and Charter problems that stopped the removal of the Charitable Status from pro-life groups. The Summer Jobs Program is highly vulnerable to legal challenge.
Party and Public Platforms
The Liberal party has refused to accept nominations from candidates who are pro-life. This is in contrast to the Conservative party which in the last election (April 2025) elected 24 pro-life MPs, more than have been elected to previous Parliaments for several generations. The Liberal party today (the party of abortion), despite the media’s adulation of Prime Minister Mark Carney, is not doing particularly well at the polls. It is neck and neck with the Conservative party. Working-class Canadians as well as newcomers to Canada are swarming to the Conservative party, because they are more comfortable with the pro-life/family values of the Conservatives rather than those of the elitist woke Liberal party.
This is not to suggest that the Conservative party is pro-life. Its leader, Pierre Poilievre, insists he is ‘pro-choice’, even though he previously supported a pro-life position. Significantly he is an adopted child himself, born of a 16-year-old single mother who chose not to abort him during her pregnancy in 1979. The Conservative party does have a policy supporting adoption as an alternative to abortion. It seems that a Canadian political leader is still not permitted to express his or her pro-life views. To do so, is to be censored by way of ridicule and hostility and being characterized as a right-wing extremist on the fringes of society, who must be ignored by the respectable, intelligent members of society.
For many years, there has been no public platform available to respond to these puerile and vindictive claims made by the legacy media and feminists against those who want an explanation about the abortion law or lack thereof. Fortunately, technology and the rise of social/alternative media are providing competition to the compromised legacy media. As a result, the legacy media is retreating, unable to regain its monopoly on information on abortion or other issues. The left-wing elites who have controlled freedom of speech in Canada on abortion have made a mockery of “guaranteed” rights and freedoms which they are deliberately suppressing. However, today the legacy media has little credibility as its narratives are not regarded as a genuine account of events.
Storm Clouds Looming Over the Pro-abortion Position
There are dark clouds looming over the pro-abortion movement in Canada. These clouds are moving slowly but will soon open up into a deluge that will complicate and threaten the pro-abortionist’s position. The two looming clouds are (1) the abortion pill and (2) the staggering low birth rate in Canada.
(1) The Abortion Pill
Abortion pills have been available in Canada since 2017. These pills require a medical prescription to be filled at a pharmacy in Canada. Unfortunately, they can also be obtained illegally over the internet, endangering women’s health and lives because there is no standard or quality control for its contents.
Feminists and their supporters initially gleefully believed women would be empowered by the development of the abortion pill. In the U.S. the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows the distribution of the abortion pill by mail without women having any prior medical consultation. Activists believed that the simple act of swallowing a pill would swiftly and quietly solve the problem of an unintended pregnancy. There was a major flaw in this scenario, however, in that the abortion pill employs a two-drug regimen using the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. These drugs can be, quite literally, deadly – not only for the unborn child – but also for women. Women swallowing this pill in private, without medical supervision, are experiencing hemorrhaging, grievous abdominal pain and sepsis. These women are currently flooding hospital emergency rooms in the aftermath of its use. This occurs notwithstanding advocates of the abortion pill adamantly claiming that the abortion pill “is safe”.
Two studies released in 2025 indicate that the abortion pill is far from safe, but rather that it is 22 times more dangerous than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and abortion advocates claim. The peer-reviewed studies have found that abortion pill complications have been concealed in up to 84% of emergency hospital visits.
This is due to the fact that women seeking treatment after using the abortion pill, present themselves at the hospital as having had a miscarriage rather than a chemical abortion. This results in the miscoding of the abortion pill in the hospital records. This miscoding can also result in the delay of delivery of necessary care or can otherwise influence or misdirect important decisions in the management of the patient’s condition. The concealment of the complications of the abortion pill has been requested by the abortion lobby. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has advised clinicians not to document complications from the use of the abortion pill. This guidance disregards standard medical practice followed in other areas of health care. Patients are told to lie or omit critical medical history, especially in emergency scenarios. The concealment of the effects of the complications of the abortion pill by medical authorities is unethical and dangerous. Another study that was conducted in May 2025 by the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center released a study based on data from insurance claims which indicated that 11% of women who took the abortion pill experienced serious adverse complications.
It is going to be difficult to continue to conceal, however, the complications of the abortion pill much longer since the current U.S. administration under President Donald Trump has asked the Health Services Secretary to review the use of the abortion pill. Also, the FDA is conducting a thorough review of the pill in regard to its safety. Consequently, the great savior of pregnant women, i.e. the abortion pill, may eventually be removed from circulation.
(2) Canada’s Low Birthrate
The birthrate in Canada in 2024 was 1.25 children for a woman of childbearing age. This is one of the lowest birthrates in the world. The Liberal government has tried to compensate for the low birthrate by bringing into Canada over 3 million largely unscreened and unskilled immigrants over the past five years. Killing future desperately needed taxpayers through abortion, paid by our national health system (the taxpayers), is obviously an exercise in futility and stupidity. Briefly stated, why is the taxpayer paying to kill future workers whose taxes are needed to sustain Canada’s future? Abortions for medical reasons are rare, and are more often performed for social purposes, mostly the convenience or lifestyle of the mother and father. Abortions are a threat to Canada’s future and are indefensible.
Summary
The above shifts on abortion now taking place in Canada, have not occurred in a vacuum. Rather, they are occurring due to the endless perseverance of the pro-life movement no matter what the circumstances. The pro-life movement has kept the issue alive, notwithstanding the gigantic efforts to make abortion a non-issue. The issue will only magnify and intensify over the next few years. The fruits of pro-life work have begun to ripen.