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The "honourable"
John Turner ushered
Canada's 1969
abortion law |
People often think of Canada's abortion synonymous with the Supreme Court ruling of 1988. But the Supreme Court struck down the Canadian abortion law enacted in 1969. The 1969 Justice Minister was the “Honourable” John Turner. In May of that year he stood in the House of
Commons and assured a reluctant Parliament that:
“The bill has rejected the eugenic, sociological or
criminal offence reasons. The bill limits the possibility of therapeutic
abortion to these circumstances: It is to be performed by a medical
practitioner who is supported by a therapeutic abortion committee of medical
practitioners in a certified or approved hospital, and the abortion is to be
performed only where the health or life of the mother is in danger.”
It was an evil ruse: Once the bill became law it did not limit
abortion to certain circumstances, it
allowed abortions in any circumstance.
There were people who warned this would happen. One written brief submitted to
Canada’s Parliament back in 1967 warned that abortion acceptance would make
Canada step backward in time:
We would enter a second Dark Age where human life
counted for little…When we find ourselves killing off our unwanted babies, why
not our old people, our crippled, our blind and our sick? Why not all inmates
of prisons and mental institutions? …
All abortion, in fact, is human sacrifice. If not to
appease our anger, it is the sacrifice of an innocent life to our own comfort
and convenience, our social and economic position or perhaps a woman’s peace of
mind or physical well-being… To legalize abortion is to give official sanction
to it and therefore encourage it not only in some circumstances, but whenever
someone thinks it convenient.
They were decried, their voices shouted down. Abortion advocates
discounted them as alarmists and religious kooks, … but the kooks and alarmists
were right. The bill did not limit
abortion. It encouraged abortion. It played into the logic of human darkness.
In the year that Canada’s abortion bill passed into law (1969) there
were 268 abortions in the entire country. The ink was barely dry on the
legislation legalizing abortion and the law was being flouted. Within twelve
months, the number of Canadian abortions spiked over 4,000 percent to 11,152!
In 1972, the official number of abortions in Canada jumped further to 37,299. The tight narrow guidelines were rarely if ever met. The number of abortions in Canada
increased dramatically and unrelentingly. (By 1982, things got so bad in Canada
that abortions outnumbered live births in Canada’s largest city of Toronto!)
I had a discussion with a retired Canadian physician whose medical
practice was its peak during the 1960s and1970s. He could not remember any
request for abortion ever being refused by a hospital abortion committee. He
recalled that in his experience, all requests for abortions were simply
rubber-stamped.
No abortion law
tolerated
Canadian abortion advocates were not happy with any law or even theoretical restrictions. They wanted no law, no appearance of restrictions to
abortion, regardless of how ineffective or phony Canada’s legislation might
have been. They wanted abortion on demand! In 1988, the abortion lobby got its
wish when Canadian Supreme Court struck down Canada’s abortion law. Abortion advocates literally danced in the streets. (Since then, there has been no law restricting
abortion in Canada. It is legal to have an abortion for any reason, or no
reason at all, during all nine months of pregnancy.)
America
follows suit
By the time of America’s infamous 1973 Roe verses Wade abortion
decision by the United States Supreme Court, Canada had had its abortion legislation
for nearly three and a half years. By that time, its rate of abortion increased
over 13,000 percent! All America had to do was look north to Canada, with a
fraction its population, for an indication of what lay in store for the US.
But sadly the human carnage that was
occurring north of the 49th parallel was exactly what American “progressive”
secularists had been conniving to get for years: unrestricted abortion. They
knew that permissiveness toward abortion would result in wild increases in
abortion rates, and that's what happened.
Former abortionist and abortion rights activist, Dr. Bernard
Nathanson, wrote about this in his 1983 book The Abortion Papers: Inside the Abortion Mentality.
He wrote that during the 1960s groups like the National Association for the
Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL) claimed, without documentation, that there were
more than a million illegal abortions in America
annually. Actual demographic studies on that time showed an average of 98,000
illegal abortions annually between 1940-1967. By any standard, misstating the number of
abortions by 902,000 annually is an exaggeration of monumental proportions!
More than 57 million abortions have occurred in America since
Roe v Wade in 1973.
According to Paul Belien of The
Brussels Journal there are 40 million abortions performed in the world each
year. The Canadian kooks who spoke against
abortion, forty years ago, were right.
“We would enter a second Dark Age where
human life counted for little…When we find ourselves killing off our unwanted
babies, why not our old people, our crippled, …”
We have entered that New Dark Age. The next
assault on the sanctity of human life they predicted is about to begin in Canada in 2016. Canada's Supreme Court struck down Canada's assisted suicide law. The religious kooks were right!
Below is a letter I sent to Prime Minister-designate, Justin Trudeau to invoke the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to halt the Supreme Court ruling on assisted suicide. I am aware that chances he will do this unpopular thing are remote. Justin Trudeau is basking in the glow of public approval,and the Liberal Party supports assisted suicide. Still, as a citizen I must make a plea for the Common Good of my nation, and those who are depressed because of their circumstances and will be euthanized with the full sanction of the state. I must speak up. 
