Abortions should be illegal because abortions are the violent taking of a human life, without justification or consent of that human. There are no good reasons to support abortion, other than serious health issues of the mother or the baby. To the victims, the unborn babies, abortion is the denial of all human rights at once. Without the right to life, the other rights are meaningless. A human life should never be taken for the reason that it is an inconvenience to others. Over 40 million human lives have been deliberately eliminated in the name of "choice". Abortion has become a method of birth control. Do we really believe this is O.K.? I am not speaking from a religious point of view. Even from a human point of view, this disrespect for human life is abhorrent and shameful.
To prohibit abortions will vastly decrease them. Abortions are absolutely necessary in only two cases: the mother's health is at risk or the baby's health is at risk. Abortions based on the baby's health account for 3% of Canadian abortions. Abortions that are based on the mother's health also account for 3% of Canadian abortions. In Canada, from 1970 to 1998, there have been 2,163,857 abortions. For every 100 live births in Canada, there are approximately 30 abortions. I find these numbers, along with U.S. totals of more than 38 million abortions since 1973, disturbing to say the least.
Abortion in Canada was decriminalized on January 28, 1988 following the trial of Dr. Henry Morgentaler, when the Supreme Court of Canada declared the old abortion section of the Criminal Code unconstitutional. In May 1990, the House of Commons passed Bill C-43, legislation to re-criminalize abortion. The new law would have made abortion punishable by up to two years in jail unless a doctor determined that continuing a pregnancy threatened a woman's physical, mental or psychological health. Bill C-43 was defeated by the Senate on January 31, 1991.
