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W-5 SMEAR CAMPAIGN SEEN AS FOILED ATTACK ON STOCKWELL DAY

Biased Program Blasted By Pro-Life Leaders

TORONTO, Nov 7 (LSN.ca) - The CTV W-5 program which on Sunday night undertook a smear campaign against crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs) in Canada, is being condemned for its pro-abortion bias and the program's attempt to attack Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day. The head of Campaign Life Coalition New Brunswick said the program should be sued. In a press release Peter Ryan said the program "libelled and defamed pro-life centers that provide pregnant mothers an alternative to abortion."

The program claimed that such centers deceive women and give inaccurate information about abortion. Rather, Ryan says the program was a "propaganda piece that went well beyond the pale of fair comment." For example, the program accused a Calgary center of telling a woman she "would have trouble ever conceiving again" if she had an abortion. But the woman herself stated only that a pro-life counsellor told her she "could" have such a complication - which is entirely true. There is no evidence the woman was falsely told that she would be unable to have children. Ryan says pro-life pregnancy centers are one of the few places that a woman can get the truth about abortion. "If W-5 is interested in finding deception, they just need to visit any abortion clinic. Abortion clinics systematically lie to every pregnant woman by denying that she is a mother with child."

CTV noted in promos to the program that "During the course of W5's investigation, it was discovered that Valerie Day, the wife of Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day, was a founding member of the Red Deer centre. Valerie Day helped establish the counselling centre in 1988 when it was known as the Red Deer Crisis Pregnancy Centre Society and went on to become its president." - as if to say Mrs. Day should be faulted for helping to found a centre which has saved the lives of numerous Canadian children. Thanks to the numerous complaints that portion of the program was not aired.

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