Three undercover videos released this month by the political pro-life group RightNow have reignited the abortion debate in Canada – and triggered chaos amongst Liberal MPs and abortion activists.
Pro-Life activist Alissa Golob caught pro-abortionists admitting that late-term abortions are being carried out on healthy babies. The admissions made front page of the National Post. The paper featured an ultrasound image of an unborn baby and the headline: “The Undiscussed Truth About Late-Term Abortions in Canada.” NP dedicated two full pages to the story, explicitly rebutting the oft-asserted claim of pro-abortion politicians that late-term abortions are not perpetrated on healthy, viable babies.
TK Pritchard of Abortion Canada admitted to NP that “there does not have to be a medical concern that is named” to procure a late-term abortion – which is precisely the point Golob was making in her undercover videos. When Pritchard was asked directly whether there has to be a “fetal or maternal health risk,” she responded: “No.”
Frederique Chabot, executive director of Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, insisted that the videos were “heavily edited, deceptive, heavily narrated.” She then went on to admit that: “In Canada, we have nothing that criminalizes abortion care at any point in the pregnancy. There is no criminal law that says, ‘At this random time, this is when abortion will not be provided.’” She could have just said: “Golob is right.”
The liberal lie that late-term abortions are never perpetrated on healthy, viable babies – something the pro-life movement has been saying for decades – is now completely, and publicly, collapsing. As the National Post noted:
Federal officials appear to have backed away from Bennett’s never-without-a-medical reason assertion. The government’s website states that late-term abortions “usually occur” because of medical risks….
With no legal boundaries on abortion in Canada, there are also no legal restrictions on gestational age limits – how far along in the pregnancy is too far. Legally, a woman could have an abortion at any stage of pregnancy.