By Thaddeus M. Baklinski

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, October 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – David Alward, leader of the provincial Progressive Conservative party and premier-designate after last week’s landslide victory, said his government will continue to oppose funding of Henry Morgentaler’s private abortion facility in the province.

“That was my position before,” Alward said in an interview with the Globe and Mail a day after the vote. “My position hasn’t changed.”

New Brunswick is the only province in Canada with a private abortion facility owned and operated by arch-abortionist Henry Morgentaler that is not publicly funded.

New Brunswick taxpayers pay for abortions if they are carried out in a hospital by a specialist, and only after a woman has written approval from two doctors.

Morgentaler, whose clinic has been performing abortions in Fredericton since 1994, sued the New Brunswick government in 2003 claiming the province’s restrictions were unconstitutional and violated the Canada Health Act because they denied women full access to abortion.

“The federal courts have ruled on public access to abortion … I can tell you that, as a government, we certainly support the laws of the land,” said Premier-Designate Alward, referring to the fact that publicly funded abortion is available in the province’s hospitals, and that Regulation 84-20 of the New Brunswick Medical Services Payment Act (Schedule 2; a.1) does not allow public funding of abortion in private clinics.

The suit by Morgentaler against New Brunswick has dragged on for seven years, with little public or political support for a judicial decision to force public funding of Morgentaler’s abortuary.

Peter Ryan, the Executive Director of New Brunswick Right to Life, told LifeSiteNews, “It is quite true there is little social or political interest here in funding abortion on demand. I am proud of that.”

“It would take the courts to impose political correctness and force us to pay for dead New Brunswick babies,” Ryan said.

See previous LSN coverage:

Morgentaler Sues New Brunswick over Extra Billing for Abortion
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/jul/03072910.html

Abortion Funding for Privately Run Clinics? New Brunswick Says No Way
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jan/05012702.html

New Brunswick Hospital About to Take Up Abortion: Once Named “House of God”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jun/06062006.html

Morgentaler Granted Legal “Standing” to Pursue Lawsuit against New Brunswick
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08080802.html

New Brunswick Court Today Hears Appeal against Abortionist Morgentaler
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/09011303.html