At New Year the bombing of abortuaries in the United States was featured on Canadian television and radio and on the front pages of Canadian newspapers. In Ontario the Morgentaler propaganda machine was working full speed and with maximum publicity.
Naturally, the media was bound to seize upon the bombing of three abortuaries and counseling offices in Pensacola, Florida, at Christmas and an abortuary in Washington, D.C., at New Year’s, as grist for their mills. Fortunately, readers were spared Editorial Lectures on the wickedness of the “anti-abortionists”. This point, however, was well taken care of by the news reports themselves, by letters to the editor and by columnists such as Lynda Hurst of the Toronto Star.
Most noteworthy among these reproaches against Pro-Life was the idea that these bombings marked the first appearance of violence. A recent abortion cover of Newsweek magazine for example carried the subheading: “The Turn to Violence,” as if to indicate that this opened a new dimension. This is one more example of how the twenty-year-old tradition of deceitful sloganeering perpetrates verbal violence. Let us set the record straight and not the difference between violence against property and violence against people.
Abortion itself is the central act of violence. To legalize abortion is to legalize violence. The most violent person in Canada today is Henry Morgentaler. This profession killer has boasted that he must have done “well over 18,000 abortions.” In more down-to-earth language this means that he has destroyed well over 18,000 human lives.
Other abortionists are also killers and perpetrators of violence. The difference between them and Morgentaler is that they practice their trade in a legally-authorized fashion while Morgentaler’s insolence drive him to pursue the issue to its immoral logical conclusion: namely, a woman’s absolute right to end her pregnancy (‘being with child’) whenever, wherever and for whatever reason.
The pro-life movement represents people who refuse to accept this corruption of society. Their anger is the anger of the righteous. They seek ways to defend themselves, their families, their society against a growing flood of violence and the idolization of violent people, such as Morgentaler, as cult heroes. Some, in desperation and not knowing what else to do, have resorted to bombing abortion clinics.
