July
6, 2008
The
Record
Kitchener,
Ontario
RE:
Letter to the Editor (Dr. Morgentaler – Order of Canada – Abortion)
The Order of Canada award to Dr.
Morgentaler is our national shame. Our country and our standards have sunk to a
new low. Legalized or not, or by any other name, abortion constitutes the
killing of human life.
Dr. Morgentaler’s advocacy for abortion
is rooted in the notion that women require “freedom of choice.” He has no
regard that the tiny aborted girls will never attain womanhood and will never have
the opportunity to exercise “freedom of choice” about anything.
Abortion-on-demand allows one person (the mother) to kill another person (the
child) in order to solve the first person’s social or economic problem. These
are not rightful choices in a moral, righteous, and just society. Abortion is
the violation of the divine ethic in pursuit of physical, social, or economic
comfort and convenience. Abortion is not the solution to a problem; it is the
elimination of a human being perceived to be the problem. The child becomes no
more than an object to be discarded at the option of the mother.
Pro-abortionists and Morgentaler contend
that a woman should have “reproductive choice” and the “right to control her
own body.” Countless rights and choices are available prior to pregnancy. With pregnancy,
those choices and rights are relinquished.
Dr. Morgentaler contends that no
unwanted child should be brought into the world. No child in Canada is
unwanted. There is a never ending stream of childless couples who would cherish
the privilege to love, nurture, and raise to maturity an adopted son or
daughter. Adoption is the honourable option for all, not abortion.
Apart from the physical risks to the
abortive mother, few pro-abortionist counselors, if any, advise the mother
seeking abortion of the long term devastating emotional scars that she will bear,
often for the remainder of her life. Abortion is not a single act that ends
upon the baby’s death.
Pro-choicers contend that abortion must
be legalized in order to minimize the risk to life and health associated with
illegal back alley abortions. Legal or not, there is at least one death in
every abortion.
Abortionists deceitfully argue that to
be anti-abortion is to be anti-feminist. On the contrary, abortion is not only
anti-child but it is anti-woman, dehumanizing both womanhood and motherhood.
With respect to abortion when pregnancy
threatens the mother’s life, even pro-abortionist doctors concede that
pregnancy very rarely threatens the life of the mother. Pregnancy is a normal
bodily process, not a disease or tumor.
Abortion measured by any logical,
biological, or theological standard whatsoever is premeditated murder; the
planned and deliberate killing of a human life. We now desperately need a legal
standard consistent with these other standards of truth. The embodiment of
God’s laws in our laws provides the only assurance for establishing protection
for the innocent. Hopefully, the unjustified and unmerited Order of Canada will
now provide the impetus for our nation to enact laws which protect the life of
the unborn.
Our national Constitution and Charter
of Rights and Freedoms is a farce when the life of the unborn child is
precluded from the protection to life that every other human being in our
country is afforded. When the most vulnerable in our nation are denied
protection to life, all other liberties become a sham. Paradoxically,
Morgentaler, a Holocaust survivor, should be the first to want to protect the
defenseless and marginalized.
We have an obligation to uphold that
which is morally right, not that which is personally convenient. Our democratic
system should recognize that majority morality must be checked by the rights of
the minority and the minority in this instance is the unborn child. The
pro-life struggle is not intended to impose one’s conscience on another but to
preserve the precious right to life that is violated in every abortion.
