The time has come for Canadians to discuss the abortion issue. This discussion must include a sense of compassion for both victims of abortion – the women who have suffered abortion, and their lost children. Discussion must be based on science, and the unpleasant truths regarding the actual practice of abortion and the abortion industry.
We have tiptoed around this subject and turned a blind eye to it. However, contrary to what the Left wants us to believe, the abortion issue is far from “settled” in this country.
In January 1988 five justices of the Supreme Court of Canada—for various reasons, struck down the abortion law in the Criminal Code in R. v. Morgentaler. In doing so, the only thing the five justices could agree on was that a woman’s right to “security of the person” in the Charter meant that her equality rights according to this provision were violated by the cumbersome therapeutic abortion committee scheme in effect at that time.
The court did not say that the Charter provided a “fundamental” and open-ended “constitutional” right to abortion. On the contrary, the court encouraged Parliament to draft a new law on abortion conforming to the Charter, on the basis that the state had an interest in protecting fetal life. Even feminist Justice Bertha Wilson, the only woman on the court, following the now discredited U.S. Roe v. Wade logic, concluded that the state had an interest in protecting fetal life and that “greater weight should be given to the state’s interest in the later stages of pregnancy than in the earlier.”
In 1990, the government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney introduced Bill C-43 on abortion. Although it passed the House of Commons on a free-vote of 140 to 131, it failed in the Senate. No government since then has introduced a bill to regulate abortion. As a result, there are no government restrictions on any type of abortion in Canada to this day.
Since the regulation of abortion was struck down in Morgentaler, hundreds of thousands of women have been manipulated and exploited by the abortion industry for both profit, and convenience. That is, in our narcissistic culture, pregnant women are being persuaded to obtain an abortion rather than to seek alternatives. They are misled to believe that an abortion is merely a simple medical procedure like many others, with no medical, emotional, or moral consequences.
Canadian Abortion Statistics
Shockingly, we do not have adequate/up-to-date statistics about taxpayer funded abortion in Canada. Statistics Canada was responsible for disseminating statistics on abortion until 2007, when the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) was given the responsibility. In 2019, CIHI statistics disclosed data from only 47% of Canadian hospitals, but no data from abortion clinics because the latter are not required to provide this information. The limited 2019 data did reveal however, that 16% of hospital abortions were repeat abortions and that 9% were two or more repeat abortions. The total number of abortions in Canada remains unknown because not only abortions performed in abortion clinics, but also chemical abortions (do-it-yourself-abortions) are not included in the statistics. Clearly, there is no transparency on the funding and prevalence of abortion, perhaps deliberately so.
Abortion has Changed Canada
Abortion has dramatically changed this country. For example, it has led to few babies being available for adoption. This has caused couples to resort to expensive foreign adoptions or surrogacy both here and abroad. Why are we killing healthy babies in Canada when there is such a demand to adopt them?
Many women feel trapped, abused, terrified, and alone in a crisis pregnancy and in need of support. Women faced with a seemingly unwanted pregnancy are deserving of compassion, information regarding alternatives to abortion and support. So, why is such support cut off from them since, in six of Canada’s ten provinces, the Abortion Bubble Zone laws protect the abortion industry’s profits, not the needs of women? Moreover, such information and support is now being further threatened by the Trudeau government’s recent move to strip charitable (tax-exempt) status from pro-life agencies who provide crisis pregnancy services.
Abortion Clinics
Abortion clinics claim they exist to “help” women but their primary interest is in making a profit. Clinics do not counsel women on alternatives to abortion, they refuse to return the money if the woman does change her mind, and continually pressure her to proceed with the abortion by providing misleading information as to its risks and consequences. To maintain its profits, the abortion industry requires a steady stream of pregnant women seek abortions rather than its alternatives. This gives rise to the deceptions and lies about abortion which are necessary to deceive a woman.
Multi-billion Dollar Business
Abortion clinics are a multi-billion dollar business, making money not only from the abortion procedure, but also from the gruesome practice of selling baby body parts for research to both universities and drug companies. The ”harvest of body parts” is used to research new drugs, including COVID vaccines, as well to literally make “humanized mice” with genetic material derived from aborted babies which are in turn used in drug research. In addition, these body parts are being used for organ transplants.
Abortion is also useful for depopulation purposes. Canada’s birthrate is 1.4 births per woman of child-bearing age, which is the lowest in Canadian history. The replacement fertility rate is 2.1 births per woman for most developed countries. This is a warning sign about the ugly truth about Canada’s future.
Abortion Benefits Men
Some men do not want their child destroyed by abortion. Sadly, however, these male voices are regarded as irrelevant. In 1989, the Supreme Court of Canada, in the Tremblay v. Daigle, held that abortion was a woman’s decision only. There are some men however, who are unwilling to accept the consequences of the sexual act. These include fathers, boyfriends and husbands who want the abortion for their own advantage – their reputation and pocket books, as well as relief from responsibility. In effect, they want no part of or responsibility for the pregnancy, and pressure and coerce women to have an abortion – all paid for by provincial health insurance. It is the woman and her aborted child however, who endure the blood and the pain. The complicit man experiences no discomfort. How is this the “equality” claimed by feminist leaders?
The easy availability of abortion encourages sexual recklessness and irresponsibility. It encourages and facilitates women to be non-fertile, defining their relationships solely in terms of being a non-child bearing one, often with an uncommitted male partner.
Chemical (Abortion Pill), Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Abortions by Drugs
Despite arguments that abortions must be made “legal”, i.e., unrestricted, in order to prevent backstreet abortions, women are now expected to have private, “backstreet” abortions in their own homes, without medical care. The pregnant woman swallows the drugs, endures the pain, the bleeding and the disposal of the child alone. Admissions of women to hospital emergency rooms have skyrocketed since DIY abortions became available. This is not surprising since the deliberate killing and expelling of the child from her body is a most unpleasant experience and a fundamentally unnatural act. Sepsis, haemorrhaging, and incomplete abortions are the result, as well as a dead child. According to a British report in 2020, more than 10,000 women required hospital care after a DIY abortion.
A study released in November 2021, by the U.S. based Charlotte-Loisier Institute found that abortion-related emergency room visits following the abortion pill regime increased more than 500% between 2002 – 2015. It is known that there were at least 26 deaths of women in the U.S. from chemical abortions.
Complications of abortion, whether from surgical or DIY abortions, are not reported by women in hospital emergency rooms, who claim instead that they have had a “miscarriage”. Without proper information on the real source of the emergency there is an increase in risk for women, leading to an increase in the number of hospitalizations.
How Canada’s Abortion Culture was Achieved
One does not need a Ph.D. in biology to know that within a pregnant woman, there is a growing, separate, distinct, human being. The feminist slogan, “her body, her choice” is mindless, and totally unscientific since a new, unique and unrepeatable human is created at conception. That human being has:
- a DNA different from the mother’s
- often a blood type different from the mother’s
- a unique set of fingerprints
- in around 50% of cases, the sex is different from the mother’s.
Our abortion culture advises a pregnant woman that her career, her pleasures, and her future life take precedence over the child’s life. It convinces her that she must obtain an abortion in order to protect herself. The narrative that abortion is a reasonable decision is designed to prevent the woman from realizing the truth of what she is doing. Simply put, our narcissistic culture insists that abortion is a rational and acceptable decision and that to suggest otherwise is contemptible. This is why the mainstream media and the woke culture hate the pro-life voice, as it refuses to play their game of dishonesty. In other words, for the abortion culture to succeed, the truth about abortion must be cancelled, and the pretense that abortion is a positive, reasonable response to an unexpected pregnancy must be upheld. It is a one-way street – no balance, no fairness, no respect for the value and dignity of the woman or her child, with no rights at all for the child. It’s time for the lies to stop. It’s time for an open, compassionate and humane debate on the issue of abortion.