Posted on 09/10/2004 11:45:01 PM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
Some abortions must be done in U.S.: minister
QUEBEC CITY - Quebec Health Minister Philippe Couillard regrets the need to send some Quebec women to the U.S. for late-term abortions
Last year, the provincial government sent 30 patients to clinics in Kansas and New York for treatment.
Couillard said that Quebec simply doesn't have the expertise to perform the specialized procedures in the province.
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Long-time abortion activist Dr. Henry Morgentaler said he approves of Quebec sending women to Kansas for late-term abortions.
"These abortions are difficult to do and they have a high rate of complications," he said, noting that late-term abortions require specialists to carry out the procedure.
He pointed out that Quebec is not the only province that does this. "We do it here in Ontario as well, because we do not have enough doctors here in Canada that would provide abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy," Morgentaler said.
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It is rare for a woman to require an abortion after 22 weeks of pregnancy, and is most often needed by very young women or women with difficult social situations, he said.
There is no argument for partial birth abortion. If a woman can survive the rigors of labor, there is absolutely no health reason to murder that baby that's partially born. None. It's murder, pure and simple.
Now we're "creating jobs" by helping Canadians commit murder. Shame on us.
Kind-of ironic that their socialist health care system can't cater fully to their socialist need to kill babies.
"These abortions are difficult to do and they have a high rate of complications," he said, noting that late-term abortions require specialists to carry out the procedure.
In other words, this abortionist is admitting that abortion isn't even safe for the mother. Yet one of the ways abortion is promoted (e.g. by Planned Parenthood) is by claiming that it is safer than either contraceptives or childbirth.
This is absolutely sickening. May God have mercy on our nation.
TREATMENT?!?!?
I didn't know a full term infant was a disease.
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