New Brunswick provincial election in September 2014
Updated: Sep. 19, 2014
New Brunswick’s provincial election will take place on September 22. Voters will elect 49 members to the legislative assembly. How they cast their votes will also decide whether the government massively expands abortion in the province, slaughtering even more innocent babies, at a huge cost to taxpayers.
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Abortion became a main ballot issue after Liberal Party Leader Brian Gallant supported using public tax dollars to pay for elective abortions at Morgentaler’s private facility. However, Gallant has broken with the policy of former Liberal Premier Frank McKenna, who refused to pay for Morgentaler's private abortion business and created the 2-doctor rule. The current Liberal Leader has signalled he will eliminate even this modicum of restriction requiring publicly-funded abortions to be “medically necessary”. (Of course, we know that today, due to advances in medical technology, abortion is never medically necessary, even to save the mother’s life.) It’s clear that if Liberals win the election, Gallant will eventually force New Brunswickers to pay for abortions as a back-up birth control method, even at private facilities. |
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This is a strange position for any elected lawmaker to take. Private medicine is actually illegal in Canada. If this were a private clinic offering knee surgery, it would be shut down and arrests would possibly be made. Yet, because logic and intellectual honesty are always suspended on the topic of abortion, politicians like Gallant are willing to break the law.
It’s bad enough that hospital abortions are subsidized with public money. But to propose diverting even more scarce health care dollars to a medically unnecessary procedure at private facilities is ludicrous.
Draining money from the health care system
50,000 Newbrunswickers do not have a family doctor, in large part because of misdirected spending in the healthcare system. Based on the number of babies killed at Morgentaler’s facility, Gallant’s new policy would drain another half a million dollars annually out of the provincial health system. And thus, away from genuine medical necessities.
This figure would quickly balloon as more private abortuaries rush to set up shop, enticed by the opportunity to feed at the public trough. The experience of our American neighbours proves that an increase in the number of abortion mills leads to a rise in the number of abortions.
Your tax money should be used to help fix the doctor shortage in rural communities, hire nurses, treat autistic children or reduce excessive wait times for hip and knee replacements. Ask yourself this question: what genuine health care services will Brian Gallant cut in order to free up at least half a million dollars for elective abortion?
The Progressive Conservative Premier, David Alward, has stated that his government will maintain the status quo. His government will continue to deny funding to private abortuaries, and would maintain the modicum of restriction provided for in the 2-doctor rule.
Gallant’s extremist views extend to democracy
Gallant has aped his federal counterpart, Justin Trudeau, telling the press that all Liberal MLA’s must vote in favour of abortion, even if it violates their conscience or religious beliefs. In essence, this means that any pro-life Liberal MLAs, if they exist, would be thrown out of the party. This policy is fundamentally anti-democratic.
Save the babies... and your tax dollars!
Campaign Life Coalition urges all New Brunswick taxpayers, not just the pro-life ones, to find out where your MLA stands on funding the Morgentaler abortuary and paying for abortion as a back-up birth control method. Ask the same question to all the candidates seeking provincial office in your local riding.
Then please vote for a candidate who opposes funding the dismemberment and decapitation of children in the womb.
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