Pro-Life Group Reminds Politicians “Women Have Never Had a ‘Right’ to Abortion

OTTAWA, June 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Throughout the current election campaign, some political leaders have been referring to a woman’s “right” to abortion. Campaign Life Coalition is reminding politicians and the media that women do not have a “right” to abortion in Canada, merely the freedom to kill their baby.  “The first casualty of war is truth, and this seems to be the same for an election campaign,” said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. “Every day we are hearing about a so-called ‘woman’s right to choose’. The Charter gives no one the right to kill another human being. In their 1988 Morgentaler decision, the Supreme Court threw out the previous abortion law because it was not being applied equally. They did not give women a ‘right’ to abortion. Further, they declared that Parliament had a right to legislate on this issue.”“Today many women who have had abortions lament the so-called ‘choice’ they made to kill their unborn child,” said Gillian Long of Campaign Life Coalition in Toronto. “To listen to the politicians and the media, one would think the freedom to have your child butchered in the womb is somehow a virtue, when it is actually a vice. If legislators really cared about women, they would make Canada a country where women felt they had the support to raise their children.”“A majority of Canadians want at least some restriction on abortion,” added Mr. Hughes.  Campaign Life Coalition awaits the day when politicians and political parties stop running from the topic and begin engaging in discussion on the issue.