ABORTION PUSHING FEMINIST GROUP REFUSES FUNDING IN PROTEST

OTTAWA, June 9 (LSN) – At the annual convention of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), the nation’s leading feminist group decided temporarily to refuse the government’s offer of 8 million tax-payer dollars for the coming year, protesting an accountability requirement the government introduced this spring. The federal government now requires that NAC submit the plans of their projects for consideration before funding is granted. NAC also demanded that their funding be increased from to $30 million per year. Women’s groups representing the concerns of mainstream Canadian women, such as REAL Women of Canada, are denied government support.  The group met with representatives from the major political parties and heard supportive comments from the Liberals and NDP. Reform MP Val Meredith met with hisses from the crowd, however, when she said Reformers “believe that special interest groups and corporations do not deserve any (government) funding.” NAC president Joan Grant-Cummings, speaking as if NAC actually represents Canadian women, responded, “Women are not a special interest, for the umpteenth time.”  Recent actions of NAC have confirmed their reputation as an extremist, anti-family organization. In March last year, the group protested the downloading of public-health funding from the Ontario provincial government to municipalities, on the grounds it would jeopardize “family planning” and “reproductive health” clinics. NAC and its allies, such as the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics and Planned Parenthood Ontario, are aware that ordinary citizens do not support the agendas pursued in such programmes,  and fear the increased accountability at the level of local politics.  Last October, NAC joined with 13 other groups promoting a re-definition of “spouse” in Ontario’s Income Tax Act, to include gay and lesbian “partners.” NAC is also at the forefront of efforts at the international level to have abortion recognized as a “human right” around the world.