The Globe and Mail on May 21st reported from Regina that “anti-abortionist” Joe Borowski was “astounded that the Federal Government lawyer did not call witnesses to counter his (Joe’s) legal attempt to have Canada’s abortion law declared invalid. Mr. Boworski’s lawyer, Dr. Morris Schumiatcher, had produced a number of world experts in genetics and fetology who left any unbiased reader of the reports in no doubt as to the humanity of the fetus from the instant of conception. Yet, the federal lawyer, Edward Sojonky, said that these arguments were not relevant to the issue at stake. The only important thing to be settled is whether Section 251 of the Criminal Code, dealing with therapeutic abortions, is valid.
In other words, if Section 251 can be proved valid according to legal documents, it doesn’t matter a jot if human beings are being killed. One had to admit that, from Mr. Sojonky’s point of view, the “legal issue is all that he is being asked to prove. But from the “human” point of view the argument is ominous. If the law says you may kill, you may kill.
The same issue of the Globe and Mail reported that Albert Helmut Rauca had been extradited to Germany to stand trial for killing 11 million Jewish Lithuanians during the War. According to Mr. Sojonky’s logic, if Mr. Rauca’s lawyer can prove that what he did was legal at the time, then Mr. Rauca should be declared innocent – no matter how many people he executed. It was legal because it had the force of the law to back up his actions.
Here is the wording of a letter written by Adolph Hitler in October 1939. It was pre-dated “September 1st, 1939″ so as to save the doctors who had “jumped the gun”. “Reichleader Bouhler and Dr. Med. Brant are responsibly commissioned to extend the authority of the physicians, to be designated by name, so that a mercy death may be granted to patients who according to human judgment are incurably ill according to the most critical evaluation of the state of their disease.” The letter is signed Adolf Hitler and is written on his own private paper. This letter did not give an order to kill but it gave power to kill “legally” and the doctors took full advantage of it, as history records.
Professor Robert Havemann denounced the “euthanasia” murders with these words: “… the patient is no longer a human being needing help but merely an object whose value is measured according to whether his life or his destruction is more expedient for the nation. The physicians took over the function of judge over life and death – they made themselves infallible gods.”
Does this sound familiar?
Could this happen in Canada?
In 1977, the Badgely Committee (set up to study the implementation of our Abortion Law), reported that it could. Many physicians, whom they met on their visits to hospitals, “… openly acknowledged that their diagnoses for mental health were given for the purpose of expediency and they could be considered as a valid assessment of an abortion patient’s state of mental health.” (p. 212)
In other words, the doctors “openly admitted” that they had taken over the decision of life and death as a matter of expediency. I can’t see the difference, in principle, between this statement and that of Dr. Havemann quoted above.
Dr. Christoph Hufeland (1792-1836) was a 19th century physician who had a vision of things to come. He stated: “If the physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether a life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.”
