New Brunswick Considers Appeal over Public Funding for Morgentaler Abortion Facility

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By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiFREDERICTON, NB, May 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - New Brunswick Justice Minister T. J. Burke said the province will consider appealing the recent ruling of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal, which said that abortionist Henry Morgentaler has the right to sue the…

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By Thaddeus M. Baklinski FREDERICTON, NB,*May 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - New Brunswick Justice Minister T. J. Burke said the province will consider appealing the recent ruling of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal, which said that abortionist Henry Morgentaler has the right to sue the…

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I’ve been watching this story unfold closely in the news. Go figure; here’s a man who received the highest civilian award ever given to any distinguished Canadian. (“The Order of Canada”) in comparison to the U.S. (“Presidential Medal of Freedom”) Doctor Henry Morgentaler is hailed as Savior for all Canadian women who say it’s their right to abort their fetuses at any time during their pregnancy. As much as I hate to say this, the province of New Brunswick’s Justice Minister T. J. Burke is going to lose his battle on Constitutional grounds. This legal battle will eventually wind up in the Supreme Court of Canada. The province of New Brunswick is the ONLY provincial government in Canada that does not pay for abortions in private clinics. Yet every Friday morning hospitals in the cities of Moncton, Saint John, and Fredericton carry out abortions to the cost of New Brunswick taxpayers. I have friends who are Catholic nurses working in Labor & Delivery who were fired for refusing to assist doctors performing abortions. You see this happen to a lot of Catholic nurses who are forced to wrestle with their moral conscious.
My beloved country Canada will not be spared God’s Holy Wrath on that Great Day of Tribulation.

 

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Morgentaler contends that the province’s refusal to fund his private clinic in Fredericton is a violation of the Charter of Rights and the Canada Health Act. New Brunswick is the only province that has a private abortion facility that is not publicly funded.

Peter Ryan of New Brunswick’s Catholic Right to Life Association says he received a letter from New brunswick Premier Shawn Graham stating that the Province is appealing the ruling.

“This is good news,” says Ryan. “There is no reason not to appeal.”

Ryan says the province’s position in the dispute is consistent with federal law. “It is a myth to say there is any requirement to fund abortion on demand. That is elective surgery, which legally is a matter of discretionary funding.”

He added, "On a humanitarian level, it is the height of insanity to force the public to pay for mothers to extinguish their child’s life. An abortion clinic is more like a temple of sacrifice than a health care facility.

“I don’t care how much of a celebrity Morgentaler is,” Ryan said. “What he’s into, in my view, is not medicine but something that has the earmarks of a religious cult. To fund that would be lunacy.”

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While New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham’s provincial government is contending jurisdictional ruling against Doctor Henry Morgentaler’s right to set up legal private abortion clinics throughout the provinces three major cities; the provincial government’s interest is solely one of money being disposed from provincial coffers. Despite the fact that Premier Shawn Graham and his wife are Catholic, his Liberal political party stance is not based upon any grounds of morality but simply monetary grounds that will cost his government more money and create a further burden on New Brunswick taxpayers.

Doctor Henry Morgentaler’'s callous stance to stand behind the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom and Canada’s Health Act to defend woman’s rights to abortion means that the Supreme Court of Canada will most likely be making the deciding vote.
Ten Supreme Court Judges sit on the bench of Canada’s Supreme Court. Five men and five women. Morgentaler has already been successful in judicial cases in the province of Ontario and Quebec. Regrettably; the province of New Brunswick will be another windfall at the moral expense of every Canadian Christian who values the Sanctity of Life.