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“But abortion is legal!”

April 29, 2014 by Faye Sonier 1 Comment

Another response to the hysteria surrounding the New Brunswick Morgentaler Clinic closure from Peter Ryan, the Executive Director of the New Brunswick Right to Life Association:

Some will retort, “But abortion is legal.” As if that settles the argument. It does not, for three reasons.

First, the argument is a non sequitur. It is legal for me to build a rocket ship and fly to the moon. It does not follow the government has to pay for it.

Second, there is no Canadian legislation defining abortion’s legality. The 1988 Morgentaler decision by the Supreme Court addressed the criminality of abortion, not public funding. No Canadian court has ruled the Charters of Rights requires a province to fund unrestricted abortion at a private clinic. It is an open issue.

Third, it is dishonorable to hide behind the law. Slavery was once legal. It was legal for Nazis to kill Jews. That did not make those activities just. Those who argue “abortion is legal” must explain why that is just, and cannot skirt the truth that abortion kills a child.

Read the rest here. And if you haven’t signed the petition yet, please go do it now.

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  1. Julie Culshaw says

    April 30, 2014 at 10:52 am

    Faye, thanks for your quote on choice that I used in my letter to the editor of the Chronicle Herald. Surprise, surprise, they actually printed my letter questioning the funding of abortion.

    http://thechronicleherald.ca/letters/1203968-voice-of-the-people-april-30-2014

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