Perhaps you happy Americans missed it, but on July 1st, Canada Day, Dr. Henry Morgentaler, Holocaust survivor, physician, and abortion activist, was given the highest honour in the Land. He was named to the Order of Canada.

From the CBC article:
Now 85, Morgentaler, a Polish Holocaust survivor who immigrated to Montreal after the war, opened his first abortion clinic in 1969 and performed thousands of procedures, which were illegal at the time.

Morgentaler, a trained family physician, argued that access to abortion was a basic human right and women should not have to risk death at the hands of an untrained professional in order to end their pregnancies.

Morgentaler's clinics were constantly raided, and one in Toronto was firebombed. Morgentaler was arrested several times and spent months in jail as he fought his case at all court levels in Canada. <link>

Thanks to Morgentaler, women in Canada don't have to drive a few hundred miles to get an abortion. Before they undergo the procedure, they don't have to listen to their doctor tell them that they're killing a teeny-tiny human being. They don't have to pay for it out of their own pocket: it's covered by our universal health care.

I can't take credit for Morgentaler, but this is the best Canada's birthday present I could have hoped for, and it gives me a warm little feeling that in a significant way my nation is, in fact, better than yours.

Speaks well of Canada, I suppose, that they would honor a man who murders babies.

Truth is, no one really expects much from the Canadians. They play hockey, do stand up comedy, and honor men who murder babies....quite a legacy. You must be very proud.

Jack

I'm guessing you have to drive even further to purchase condoms. I do feel some solidarity though because I'm a holocaust survivor too.

which gave the order to the good doctor. Those are their conservatives, Jack. And technically speaking, he didn't murder babies. Babies have already been born. He terminated, or if you like, murdered foetuses or embryos--some of which wouldn't have lived anyway, or would have lived crappy, unloved lives.

But you'd rather America be a goddam over-crowded baby farm with 90% living at plantation levels.

Ah, so he got the award for murdering things which would have lived crappy unloved lives.

Wow, not only are those Canadians progressive but they also must be psychic. Maybe we should just start killing people who live crappy and unloved lives.....you know, for their own good.

Jack

Be careful what you say. Just imagine who would go right to the front of the line.

Maybe we should just start killing people who live crappy and unloved lives.....you know, for their own good.

Who's "we"? First off, people are already getting killed off who are living crappy and unloved lives. They're dying a slow death. Secondly, as the world gets ever more over-populated, more people will be dying. Thirdly, the doctor didn't make the decision to abort these foetuses, the prospective mother did. The doctor was merely the instrument. As you are so fond of pointing out, guns don't kill people, people do. Well, doctors don't abort foetuses, pregnant women do. So put the women in prison.

If you fundies had any intestinal fortitude, like your forebears in the 17th century, you'd burn these women at the stake.

Uh - why do I feel this sudden need to .... yawn ?

And WTF does bein a holocaust survivor have to do with it?

My uncle was an ob-gyn from 1955 till he retired a few years ago.

You know how many times he risked his license and livelihood here in the States?

But so far as I know, he wasn't a Holocaust survivor.

Your football is weird and you suck at baseball. And what is this shit you call "Canadian bacon?"

You puck-slapping maple suckers.

That was unkind of you, Arch.

Dontcha know that "bacon" (a Canadian) is the one in her life that "got away"?

Plus, Canadian bacon is far superior to your run of the mill bacon, i.e., Oscar Meyer. Not that I eat bacon. Canadians DO do some things right.

If all dead and/or unborn babies (fetuses) go to heaven, to an eternity of wondrous bliss, and most adults go to hell, to an eternity of unspeakable and unrelenting torment, why aren't Christians hard-core supporters of abortion?

yes it is.

However, the fact that he was arrested, harasses and firebombed shows that Canada also has assholes within its borders. And things can change in an instant.

There's no proof Heaven or Hell exists after this life. But there is proof that this life exists and it's a wonderful mix of pleasure, pain, good, bad, everything. Therefore abortion robs the aborted of both heaven and hell.

so does masturbation.

Every sperm is sacred