Canada’s opposition parties, Liberals, New Democratic Party, and Bloc Quebecois, are at it again. First they wanted Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, host to the G-8 meeting held in Canada this summer, to promote abortion among the world leaders. Needless to say, American President Barack Obama woud be totally on side.

            Having one-track minds, Canada’s feminists actually believe that helping women and the poor in the underdeveloped world is best done by killing their babies. The Prime Minister declared he would not be drawn into a debate on abortion. That ended the cabal for now.

Contraception

            Next came the demand that the host delegation vigorously promote contraception. If the Conservatives do not want to kill black and brown African, Asian, and Latin American babies, at least they should do the poor a favour by preventing their mothers from conceiving them, or abort them by Pill at conception.

            The anti-life media, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the CBC and CTV television channels, with their media allies, hammered away. “Playing politics with motherhood” was the Star’s March 19 editorial. It is the Tories, it argued, who are playing politics with motherhood by following their social conservative views of helping the overseas poor with water, food, housing, medical help, and by not following the political correct ideology of killing or preventing babies. What “ideological blinkers” is driving this government “off the rails?”, the Star asked.

            The day before, a Star article by Susan Delacourt was entitled: “Critics ‘shocked’ that Tory aid plan bans birth control.” The subtitle read: “Family planning barred from G-8 proposal because saving lives’ more important.” Imagine these dastardly Conservatives doing this kind of thing: saving lives instead of killing them! What has come over them?

            The Globe & Mail in its editorial of March 18 (“Contraception and mothers’ lives”) knew very well what had happened to the Conservatives. “Health advocates,” it told its readers, “are worried.” They “fear that the Conservative government is making some decisions that pander to the most religious elements among the party’s supporters.” So what do you know! It is these Christians, these Catholics, perhaps even Evangelicals, and for all we know, Pope Benedict XVI himself who are behind this plot of saving mothers and their babies. The Globe, which has supported abortion for 50 years dating even from before Trudeau’s time, wanted to make it absolutely clear who the culprits are:

“It stems from a fear of alienating a small base of extremely conservative voters who oppose birth control—or confuse the issue with a separate debate about abortion—this is an entirely unacceptable rationale for shaping an otherwise life-saving public policy.”

MaterCare

            For those of you who are trembling with fear at the wrath of the Globe’s editorial board, please take note that one of the few Canadians whose group of doctors and nurses has been deeply involved in giving Africans basic care since 1981, Doctor Robert Walley, founder of MaterCare International in St. John’s, NL, in 1995, is looking for financial support. In his opinion, Canada should offer hope to mothers in the developing world, rather than fear and death.

            The obstetricians of MaterCare bring post-natal, especially fistula care and training in Ghana, Kenya, and the Cape Coast in Africa.

            Send cheques payable to: MaterCare (Canada), 8 Riverview Ave., St. John’s, NL, A1C 2S5. Charitable receipts are available. email: info@matercare.org. phone: (709) 579-6472.