Morgentaler's concept of justice.

London--"We've come a long way as a society since the 1970s, "wrote Edward Fielding in a letter to the National Post on June 20, "from jailing people for performing abortions to conferring honourary degrees on them and giving them standing ovations. On June 16, 2005, at the University of Western Ontario in a self-congratulatory acceptance speech, Dr. Henry Morgentaler claimed that his work has made possible thousands of abortions 'without a single fatality.' What a tragically ironic statement."

Every abortion, "therapeutic" or otherwise, Fielding continued, involves the fatality of a developing child. But in Canada even a highly developed fetus is not legally protected as a person. "It's time the law is changed to acknowledge that more than one person is involved when an abortion takes place."

The Western convocation gave Henry Morgentaler a platform from which to preach his gospel that there is only one possible victim in the abortion issue--the pregnant woman. He himself, he duly noted, was a victim of the Nazis and experienced suffering, oppression, and injustice "inflicted by men beholden to racist, dogmatic, and irrational ideology." In other words, he acts from the noblest of motives: "to have had the opportunity to diminish suffering and injustice has been very important to me." "When I look back on my life," he declared, "I can do it with a sense of pride in my achievements. Women in Canada no longer have to fear that a pregnancy at an inappropriate time may put them in danger of death or injury if that pregnancy must be terminated."

Comment

Henry Morgentaler and his clinics have snuffed out the lives of 300,000 to 400,000 newly conceived Canadian babies. That this man is honoured by a University is another sign of the total decadence that is now enveloping us.