OTTAWA, March 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The militantly pro-abortion and anti-family National Action Committee on the Status of Women, (NAC), is claiming that it is insolvent and cannot afford to maintain office hours. The group is in talks with the federal government seeking relief of tax debts. Bev Meslo, the group’s representative in B.C. says, “NAC is in crisis. It needs financial support.”
Since its founding in 1972, the NAC has been a lobbying juggernaut for the full range of pro-abortion, feminist and anti-family measures at the federal level and internationally. For nearly thirty years the NAC and its affiliated organizations directed national policy on every conceivable issue affecting families. Its influence was felt in Revenue Canada, Canadian foreign policy at the United Nations, Child and Family services, legal challenges on “gay rights,” and the suppression of religious freedom through the courts.
The NAC is perhaps best known as the lobby group that has vigorously fought to maintain the current lawlessness on abortion and which supported Dr. Henry Morgentaler in his abortion campaign. Judy Rebick, one of Morgentaler’s most energetic and loyal defenders is a past president. More recently the NAC was a promoter and organizer in Canada for the World March for Women which co-opted Catholic support for its pro-abortion, pro-gay policies causing unprecedented turmoil in the Roman Catholic Church in Canada.
Seven years ago, however, the Liberal government cut funding to the group, which represents over 700 feminist groups as an umbrella organization. Since then the NAC has been working on fundraising. The group, despite its power in Ottawa, has been losing the support of many women in Canada with whom its radical policies and militant agenda fail to resonate. Despite their hopes, the funding shortfall has not been made up with donations and the head office in Ottawa is effectively closed.
Said Rebick “I’ve been sad about the demise of NAC and the demise of feminist activism on the national level over last five or six years.”
Mary Ellen Douglas National Organiser for Campaign Life Coalition said, “The NAC is a throwback to the radical feminist days of the 60’s and 70’s and today’s women are smarter than that.”
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