TORONTO, Nov 26 (LSN) – Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion “health” clinics complained vented concerns today regarding the loss of funding. Ontario’s downloading of services will require municipalities to fund the clinics beginning next year. The province currently pays $19 million a year for such “services”.
Pro-abortion groups are concerned that municipal governments are less likely to support “sexual health services,” because they are closer to ordinary Ontarioans, and less easily manipulated by the pro-abortion elite. Health Minister Liz Witmer told reporters on Monday, however, that the government is drafting regulations that will make some public-health programs mandatory, and that birth-control and sexually- transmitted disease prevention services could be among them.
There is evidence that the pro-aborts’ fears are justified. In 1993, Waterloo Region refused to pass on $32,000 in provincial grants to Planned Parenthood, in response to local opposition. Also, Hamilton- Wentworth Region has not guaranteed it will fund Planned Parenthood after the province pulls out.