Should private abortion clinics be publicly funded?
In light of the announcement that the Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton would stop doing abortions for the foreseeable future, this issue has once again come to the forefront.
I’ll get my biases out of the way up front. Short of the mother’s life being in mortal danger, I can’t think of any valid reason for taking the life of another human being particularly that of a baby. There’s good reason the mainstream media won’t show video and pictures of the abortion medical procedures. The babies are either mummified or dismembered as they are sucked out. Horrific, and I suspect most supporters of abortion know that there would be a far greater public outcry if the exact aspects of the procedure were known. Since we generally have a pretty liberal media, don’t expect that to change soon.
That aside, Henry Morgentaler, ironically a Holocaust survivor himself, wants the New Brunswick Government to pay his private clinic to do abortions. The argument is being made that this is because it is so tough to get an abortion in N.B. However he was trying to get this when Fredericton AND Moncton were doing abortions so it is not a new fight on his part. The previous Federal Liberals were threatening to hold back health fund transfers to N.B. unless the Province capitulated. So far they have not and it is hard to say what the new Federal Government will do.
Why should taxpayers be funding an elective procedure at a private clinic? Long waiting times? What about the countless cancer patients who travel at their own expense to other provinces and countries to get the treatments needed to SAVE their lives because of the backlog in New Brunswick? If the province does not fund private cancer treatment, or other services like private physiotherapy, and private family counseling, why should taxpayers fund a private abortion clinic? This is one issue Bernard Lord and Camille Theriault and Frank McKenna before him are and were right about. Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding a private abortion clinic…period.
I’ll get my biases out of the way up front. Short of the mother’s life being in mortal danger, I can’t think of any valid reason for taking the life of another human being particularly that of a baby. There’s good reason the mainstream media won’t show video and pictures of the abortion medical procedures. The babies are either mummified or dismembered as they are sucked out. Horrific, and I suspect most supporters of abortion know that there would be a far greater public outcry if the exact aspects of the procedure were known. Since we generally have a pretty liberal media, don’t expect that to change soon.
That aside, Henry Morgentaler, ironically a Holocaust survivor himself, wants the New Brunswick Government to pay his private clinic to do abortions. The argument is being made that this is because it is so tough to get an abortion in N.B. However he was trying to get this when Fredericton AND Moncton were doing abortions so it is not a new fight on his part. The previous Federal Liberals were threatening to hold back health fund transfers to N.B. unless the Province capitulated. So far they have not and it is hard to say what the new Federal Government will do.
Why should taxpayers be funding an elective procedure at a private clinic? Long waiting times? What about the countless cancer patients who travel at their own expense to other provinces and countries to get the treatments needed to SAVE their lives because of the backlog in New Brunswick? If the province does not fund private cancer treatment, or other services like private physiotherapy, and private family counseling, why should taxpayers fund a private abortion clinic? This is one issue Bernard Lord and Camille Theriault and Frank McKenna before him are and were right about. Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding a private abortion clinic…period.
