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To: Greg or e who wrote (34539)3/23/2013 11:33:04 AM
From: Solon1 Recommendation  Respond to of 69300
 
“private clinics don't report their data”

Your statement is False. Private reporting is voluntary. The information from private clinics is therefore not as detailed (overall) as hospital data. And let us not get side-tracked into any of your straw-man arguments or your innumerable red herrings. (“Look ma! Another Red Herring!)

The point is that Canada serves as a respected role model for removing discrimination against women and preserving human rights and freedoms and protecting the health of citizens. I am proud to live here. Pack up and leave, if you resent human rights and freedoms so much. We don't need your kind of untreated, mal-functioning ne'er-do-wells here.

Of course, there are abortions performed after 20 weeks (late term). These are a very small percentage and it must be obvious even to you, that in a country where abortion is legal, there are no frivolous reasons for seeking an abortion later rather than earlier. If you truly have a concern for Canadian Health Policy, you ought to be giving your attention to assisting the education of the public in the prevention of pregnancy and in the early termination of unwanted pregnancies.

There will always be some abortions after 20 weeks. In most cases, this change of mind occurs because health issues surface such as severely damaged foetuses or at-risk mothers.

In any event, you are welcome to lobby for better education of sexual practices, availability of protection, and so forth. But do not forget that you do not have any business in the lives of other people. Their reproductive health is between them and their doctors--just as yours is between you and yours. Nobody knows how many abortions you (or any other man) has caused by philandering throughout life--right?? But nobody is forcibly entering your home to cut off your dick--are they, Sport??

“Canada is one of only three countries in the world with no laws restricting abortion. Because of that, Canada serves as a respected role model for abortion care internationally. Abortion is a health procedure and as such, can be left up to the discretion of the doctor and patient. It requires no extra regulation, in the same way that childbirth or heart surgery requires no extra regulation.

It would be reactionary and counter-productive to pass any restriction against abortion, because that would endanger women’s health and lives, and infringe on women's equality rights: only women get pregnant, so abortion restrictions amount to discrimination against women. It would also give the anti-abortion movement something to build on, and agitate from.

Abortion opponents target rare cases of late term abortion, describing it in horrific detail, to evoke an emotional response in listeners. Their ultimate goal is to restrict all abortion rights. What these lobbyists strategically fail to mention, however, is that banning late term abortions would force women pregnant with dying fetuses to give birth at great risk to their own health, undermining both the rights of women and the medical authority of doctors.”