Monday November 6, 2000
CAMPAIGN LIFE BLASTS PRIME MINISTER FOR ABORTION ADVOCACY
MONTREAL, Nov 6 (LSN.ca) - Rumours that suggested Prime Minister Jean Chretien would make the election about abortion and run a "state vs church" campaign seem to be verified with yet another attack by Chretien on Stockwell Day's pro-life convictions. Speaking to a Quebec Liberal women's group he said, "There was a decision in 1988 of the Supreme Court [striking down Canada's abortion law]. We have had social peace in Canada on the question of abortion," he added. "Mr. Day is proposing to have a referendum on that. I think I don't agree. I [don't] think that the women will be very happy with that."
Campaign Life Coalition, the political wing of Canada's pro-life movement, asked in a press release today "How does the current Prime Minister sleep at night?" The release notes "Chretien was there in 1969 working with his friend and boss, Pierre Trudeau, to open the floodgates to mass killing of those waiting to be born. Chretien was there in 1988 applauding the decision to strike down the law leaving Canada in a state of lawlessness and the babies, in utero, totally defenseless.
"Chretien has carried out his campaign to continue the slaughter throughout his political career. Two million dead babies are a shameful legacy. Jean Chretien's concept of social peace demonstrates how far removed the Liberal leader is from what is really happening in Canada. There will never be peace for Canada or for Jean Chretien because two million victims cry out for justice. Mother Teresa said it best in 1979: 'The greatest destroyer of peace today is the crime against the innocent unborn child'."
CLC concluded: "Does any political leader in this election campaign have the intestinal fortitude to take an uncompromising stand for life?"
It is noteworthy that the Prime Minister, who constantly claims to be a Catholic, has been rebuked twice this year by Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais for his pro-abortion statements.
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