It is better to be dead than to be poor but alive
At least, that would seem to be the logic in this letter to the editor:
To me, pro-lifers are really advocating that Canadian society should add a potential 100,000 more children every year to our poverty statistics and increase demand for foster care for children.
We need to be careful what we wish for. Unless we can provide a magic solution to prevent unwanted pregnancies from occurring, then we must contend with the fallout. Either we choose abortion or childhood poverty.
Dr. Henry Morgentaler not only saved the lives of thousands of women who would seek dangerous, illegal abortions out of desperation but he has played a big part in limiting childhood poverty and suffering. He deserves credit.
Yes, Morgentaler has played his part in “limiting” childhood poverty — let us leave unmentioned that his “method” of “limiting” poverty involves killing off those who would otherwise have to endure living in poverty. Because in this modern, tolerant, post-Christian world of ours, it is indeed better to be dead than to have to go without — better to be killed in a grotesque manner indeed rather than have to suffer the indignity of e.g. a Christmas without many presents, or a simple meal instead of Hot Pockets for lunch.
On such banalities is abortion justified, it seems. God forbid that a few more orphanages be the price for thousands of lives preserved.
The ladies at ProWomanProLife have a suggestion which bears repeating:
STEP 1: Program numbers listed below into your speed dial (the most important being the Secretary to the Governor General (613-993-0259) and the Deputy Secretary Order of Canada (613-998-8731)).
STEP 2: Call these numbers every 2nd day and leave a message saying something like, “I am calling to tell you I do not agree with Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada and to ask you to have it rescinded (taken away).”
STEP 3: Save the following e-mails in a group (smcook@gg.ca, esajous@gg.ca, media@scc-csc.gc.ca , reception@scc-csc.gc.ca,info@pco-bcp.gc.ca, info@rsc.ca, info@aucc.ca, iserrurier@gg.ca, meletourneau@gg.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, scheea@parl.gc.ca, mclachlinb@scc-csc.gc.ca,copelandj@scc-csc.gc.ca).
STEP 4: Write a letter expressing your heart regarding Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada.
STEP 5: Hit send (to this group list you created in Step 3) every 2nd day!
Go thou and do, O Reader!
This decision to award Morgentaler the Order of Canada really helps focus the debate over the issue of abortion, and I think — in looking back at the letter which began this article — it also has helped refine the debate over what it means to be Canadian. If Canada truly values things like social justice and lifting other nations out of poverty, and if Canada values human rights as much as it claims to, then surely it cannot allow something which in part is justified as a method of keeping poverty rates down (and then by the method of killing people!) to persist within its borders.
If it allows such a thing, and rewards those who effect such a thing, then all its other platitudes are mere talk, chatter, and drivel. And if so, we are little better than the eugenecists of old, killing off those who would be of lower stature in our society.
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