News & Analysis

Voters in the province will decide whether the Progressive Conservatives continue to rule, or if the Liberal tide sweeping the country will carry on.  Public opinion polls suggest the Liberals will win in a landslide.

There are many issues at stake in the election which affect life & family values.

 

Issue #1:  Taxpayer funding of abortion

At least $1 million annually for the elective abortion procedure alone? That price tag excludes the cost of abortion complications such as perforations, sepsis, uterine hemorrhage, infertility, breast cancer, post- traumatic stress disorder and suicide. All these indirect costs could easily escalate the total cost of abortion in our health care system to tens of millions of dollars annually!

For $1 million per year, Newfoundland could hire 5 family doctors or 14 nurses in communities facing a shortage crisis. Or purchase a MRI machine each year to reduce wait times that are potentially life-endangering. Or provide crucial therapy to 13 additional autistic children each year. All these uses of taxpayer dollars would represent genuine health care… rather than killing babies.

It’s ludicrous to ask us to open up our wallets for these killings when the province is drowning in debt, and genuine areas of health care are neglected, such as treating autistic kids, fixing doctor and nurse shortages, improving elder care and buying MRI machines.

The Canada Health Act is federal law which requires provinces to fund “medically necessary” services, but it does not define abortion as being medically necessary.

When Newfoundland legislators deem an elective procedure as “not medically necessary” it does not get insured by the province’s Medical Care Plan. As a result, it will not receive public funding.

For example, in 1991 Newfoundland MHAs fully de-insured optometric care, deeming it to be “not medically necessary”. In another example from Ontario, the provincial government delisted chiropractic services in 2004 after more than 30 years of public funding. Physiotherapy was removed from the list of services covered by the province’s health insurance plan at the same time.

Therefore, it is clear that Newfoundland’s MHAs can easily delist abortion from our Medical Care Plan. With a stroke of the pen, the government can stop funneling taxpayer money to finance abortions. All they lack is the political will and moral fortitude to do the right thing.

In almost all abortion cases, the life of the mother is not in danger. The simple truth is that more than 96% of the time, abortions today are performed for convenience, as a back-up birth control method. That’s clearly not a medical necessity and should not be funded as such.

Please find out where your candidates stand on forced taxpayer funding of abortions.

 

Issue #2:  Radical sex-education

At a recent Leaders debate, the issue was raised of bringing in a more explicit sex-education program for elementary schools like that imposed by Ontario's Premier, Kathleen Wynne. The Ontario curriculum is dangerous to impressionable young children for many reasons including that it its age-inappropriate, overly explicit and has an undertone that nudges children towards premature sexual experimentation.  

Find out where your candidates stand on radical sex-ed.

 

Issue #3:  Sex-change surgeries

Cultural and political insanity continues to march through society as evidenced by the politically-correct, anti-scientific push to normalize transgenderism and transsexualism.  Psychologists and psychiatrists are largely abandoning efforts to help resolve the delusion that some sexually-confused individuals experience with respect to the "feeling" that they are "trapped in the wrong body".  

Instead of treating this gender identity disorder (now called gender identity dysphoria), to help patients realize that their gender is dictated by their biological reality, the medical community, spurred on by pressure from the mind-molding media and pop culture, are increasingly cooperating with mental illness and encouraging it. 

As a result of this mass, cultural insanity, there is a tremendous push across Canada for provincial health care systems to funnel scarce taxpayer dollars towards sex change surgeries, for everyone who requests it. 

Find out where the candidates in your riding stand on the lunacy of diverting scarce healthcare dollars towards sex-change surgeries instead of fixing the doctor and nurse shortages, the MRI machine shortages and the growing list of health care services that are being delisted all the time.

 

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