Under the Category of: HEALTH
Be it resolved that a new paragraph be added to the PC Party’s policy declaration on Health Care, as follows:
“We believe that OHIP should not fund the discriminatory practice of targeting baby girls through sex-selective abortion. Our party believes this misogynistic practice should be removed from the list of insured services.”
Rationale explaining why the above policy resolution should be adopted:
1. Female gendercide abortions are a barbaric cultural practice that should not be funded with scarce taxpayer dollars.
2. Genuine medical needs like fixing the doctor shortage, nurse shortage, hospital beds shortage, and buying life-saving MRI machines is where scarce taxpayer dollars should be directed. Continuing to fund misogyny and discrimination against girls with public tax dollars is a grave disservice to the Ontarians who languish waiting for life-saving, basic medical care.
3. An Environics poll found that 92 per cent of Canadians opposed sex-selective abortions in Canada. Therefore, ending OHIP funding of this barbaric practice would gain wide public support.
4. The Canada Health Act states that the provinces must fund “medically necessary” procedures. It does not require provinces to fund elective procedures that are not medically necessary. Clearly, preferring a male child over a female child does not qualify as a “medical necessity”. Therefore, provincial legislators have the power to delist female gendercide abortions from the list of services that are insured under Ontario’s Health Insurance Plan (OHIP).
To download this proposed policy resolution as a MS Word document, together with the Rationale, click here.