Wednesday May 5, 2010
Former Patient Challenges Pro-Abort MP to Debate Abortion
CALGARY, Alberta, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to Liberal Member of Parliament Dr. Hedy Fry’s claim that the abortion debate is unnecessary in Canada, one of her former patients is publicly challenging her to discuss the issue – a patient cared for by Dr. Fry in-utero and beyond.
Yesterday, Fry, Member of Parliament from Vancouver Centre, stated that she was ready to debate abortion with anyone, but that the debate was not necessary in Canada.
“She obviously hasn’t paid attention to what’s going on at universities recently,” said Stephanie Gray, executive director of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR).
Gray, whose own mother was a patient of Dr. Fry when she was pregnant with her, says a new generation of Canadians who weren’t old enough to vote when abortion was debated in the 1980’s, are demanding that their voice be heard now.
“Pro-life students are being censored, banned and even charged for trespassing on their own schools,” said Gray. “That doesn’t sound like a dead debate to me.”
Gray said she herself, and members of her staff, have faced great resistance from abortion advocates attempting to shut their presentations down — and even successfully doing so at some schools. But this doesn’t discourage her.
“The fact that we’re being invited to speak at schools at all means that the debate isn’t over,” she said. “There’s a growing movement of young people who are saying that it is undemocratic for Canadians of one generation to close the debate on such an important topic for all Canadians.”
“If Dr. Fry is truly prepared to debate anyone on abortion then I would be glad to take her up on that challenge,” said Gray. “The fact that there are people of my generation who are willing and able to talk about the great injustice happening to the unborn means that the debate is not only necessary but that it something Canadians want to hear.”
Gray has issued an open letter to Dr. Fry challenging her to a debate at the University of British Columbia at Fry’s convenience.