May 14, 2009 is the sad 40th anniversary of abortion in Canada.
Now is time for the Members of Parliament to have their email
inboxes flooded by us pro-lifers calling for legislation to
protect life and end abortion!
www.contactmps.com
is a new free resource for us pro-life
Canadians where we can send an email to all MPs with just two
clicks. Help make
http://www.contactmps.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi a grassroots success. Use and it share
it with other pro-lifers today!
LifeCanada strongly opposes a dangerous new bill that would
legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada.
Bill C-384 was introduced by Bloc MP Francine Lalonde in
Parliament on May 13, 2009. The legislation would permit
assisted suicide and euthanasia for anyone 18 or older who
is experiencing “severe physical or mental pain” and has
tried or refused appropriate treatment.
“These people need help, not a suicide prescription,” said
Gudrun Schultz, Executive Director of LifeCanada/VieCanada.
“Suicide already takes the lives of 4,000 Canadians every
year. Each one of these is a tragedy. We should be trying to
reduce that number with appropriate support and health care.
This bill will lead to just the opposite---more deaths.”
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young
people in Canada, following accidental death.
Seniors are another high-risk group, more than twice as
likely as the general population to end their lives by
suicide out of loneliness, depression or physical pain.
Quality palliative care is available for less than 40% of
those who need it.
“We can treat pain, both mental and physical. Canadians
need access to quality mental health care and palliative
care, not assisted suicide,” said Schultz.
“Beneath the language of “compassion” and “dignity”,
assisted suicide remains an act of violence. It indicates a
society that abandons desperate people who need love and
appropriate care. We urge Canadians to reject this bill.”
For more information contact Gudrun Schultz at 866-780-5433
or Dr. Delores Doherty at 709-754-2068
Virtue Media is the company
which provided the ads that
we will be running in the upcoming Media Campaign. Please note that
the statistics and dollar amounts mentioned are American figures. Abortion statistics can be divided by
10 and costs (commercials and campaign) multiplied by 10 to get
the Canadian figures.