OTTAWA, February 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Statistics Canada released the latest statistics on abortion (2002) this morning. Official figures show the lives of 105,154 unborn children were taken by abortion in 2002, down 1% from 106,270 in 2001. The rate of abortion has also marginally fallen from 15.6 abortions per 1,000 women in 2001 to 15.4 abortions per 1,000 women in 2002. These numbers exclude data related to residents of Nunavut. The number of induced abortions per 100 live births was 32.1 in 2002, virtually unchanged from 2001.
A press release from Campaign Life Coalition notes “The number one killer in our country continues to be the deliberate killing by abortion in Canadian hospitals and abortuaries. The most dangerous place to be in Canada is the womb.”
The official release of the Statistics Canada report used language to obscure the fact that over 100,000 children’s lives were terminated.
“Canadian women obtained 105,154 abortions in 2002,” styled the report.
“These are not statistics,” said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC). “These are helpless individuals who were callously killed by those who are trained to heal.” Hughes added, “Abortions are committed in alarming numbers in teachings hospitals and in front-alley abortuaries staffed by paid killers. Each one of these babies deserved a right to be born and to be protected by us.”
Considering Canada’s abysmally low birthrate, the abortion statistics make for further concerns. “Canada is a dying nation. Other stats show that we are not replacing ourselves and our birthrate is dangerously low, yet we continue to kill our own future,” said Mary Ellen Douglas, National Organizer of Campaign Life Coalition. “One dead baby is too many,” she said.
“Distressed women need to be offered true and caring solutions to their problems, not the death of their baby. Human problems have human solutions but in this area we only provide a very ‘final’ solution,” said Gillian Long, spokesperson for CLC.