01/11/08

World Youth Alliance - Emerging Leaders Canadian Policy Seminar

Thursday January 31st to Sunday February 3rd.  The World Youth Alliance (WYA)will be hosting a seminar for young Canadian leaders at the University of Ottawa. The seminar is entitled "Human Dignity as the Basis for Canadian Policy" and will include a major training component on the international AIDS issue.

For more information see: http://www.wya.net/regions/na_current_events.html?catid=31

The goals of the conference are to prepare young Canadians to be voices for human dignity centered policy and culture, and to give them hands on experience in WYA advocacy training.

For the Preborn

Marking 20 Years
With No Abortion Law
In Canada
Sponsored by Lambton Right To Life
Monday,
January 28, 2008
A Family Event

Meet in the parking lot of the
Medical Building at
316 George Street
(Corner of Mitton and George)

6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Please dress for the weather!

We will be silently walking around Blue Water Health
Mitton Site with lit candles.
Prayer cards will be available.
Warm up afterwards with some hot chocolate!

Statistics released July 2007 for the year 2004 shows reported
abortions nationally at 100, 763.1
Locally, in 2003, teen pregnancies (Ages 15-19) were 124. Of
these pregnancies, 44% ended in a therapeutic abortion.2
Rate of Therapeutic Abortions per 100 Pregnancies
Lambton County (1999-2003)
Age 15-19 – 47.9%               Age 35-39 – 13.0%
Age 20-24 – 28.5%              Age 40-44 – 27.1%
Age 25-29 – 12.4%               Age 45-49 – 37.5% 3
Age 30-34 - 3.2%                                             
In 2003, 19% of all pregnancies in Lambton ended in an
Abortion.4
“Therapeutic abortions performed in hospitals and registered clinics
are reported to the province, however, the total number of
abortions is underestimated, as medically induced abortions, those
induced by methotrexate or RU486 and those abortions
occurring out of province are not captured.4
As far as we know, no local doctors are performing abortions at
our hospital. An out-of-town doctor comes in.

1 Statistics Canada – Induced Abortions Statistics –2004 Cat. 82-223
2 Lambton County 2007 Health Status Report –Sept. 19, 2007 Pg. 5
3 Lambton County 2007 Health Status Report – Sept. 19, 2007 Pg. 8
4 Lambton County 2007 Health Status Report – Sept. 19, 2007 Pg. 7

Canada – Devoid of any Abortion Law
Prior to 1969, abortion was lawful in Canada if done in good faith to preserve the life of the mother.
1969 – The criminal code is amended to decriminalize abortions done by a doctor in a hospital after approval for the procedure has been given. In the first year of the change there were 11, 152 abortions performed in Canada.
1988 – January 28 The Supreme Court of Canada strikes down Section 251 of the Criminal Code, the section governing abortion, declaring it unconstitutional, leaving Canada without an abortion law.
1989 – The Mulroney Progressive Conservative government introduced Bill C-43 in an effort to legislate abortion after the Supreme Court ruling of 1988 effectively left Canada without any laws regulating abortion.
1990 – Bill C-43 offered no real protection to the unborn since it would have made abortion a right. Bill C-43 was passed by the House of Commons in May 1990 by a slim margin of 9 votes.
1991 – Supreme Court of Canada rules that a child in the process of being born is not a person; unborn babies do not have any legal rights unless they are born alive.
1991 – Bill C-43 is defeated in the Canadian Senate in January when the voting on the measure resulted in a 43-43 vote. Since that time there have been no other government attempts to legislate on abortion. Private members bills on the topic have also been foiled at every turn.
2007 – Still no abortion law in Canada!

(Courtesy of Campaign Life Coalition)