Scarborough, Ontario – The General Hospital in Scarborough, Ontario, a Toronto suburb, may be committing abortions soon. At one time the hospital was administered by the Sisters of Misericordia who saw to it that the killing of pre-born babies was not a part of “medical treatment.” When the Sisters left, the hospital continued the policy as before.
Recently, however, a Dr. R.N. Hodd, a gynecologist and abortionist at Scarborough Centenary Hospital, has been pressuring the Board for permission to commit abortions. Campaign Life Coalition is encouraging Scarborough residents to object and stop this latest expansion of killing facilities in the province of Ontario.
Upper Limits
During the 1970s and early 80s, Henry Morgentaler cultivated the impression – for publicity reasons – that he considered 20 weeks, or five months, the limit for committing abortions. Those who testified on his behalf at his Toronto trial in October, backed this impression, although a doctor at Women’s College Hospital revealed in her testimony that her centre referred women pregnant more than 20 weeks to abortionists in the U.S.
In November 1988, in a lecture sponsored by the Medical Society of the University of Toronto attended by 450 students, Morgentaler reverted to seven months or 28 weeks as the upper limit for “safely” killing pre-born babies.
Readers will realize that this limit is a purely pragmatic one, because there is nothing in Morgentaler’s philosophy that would prevent him from aborting a 30 or 32 week old baby if he thought he could do it without complications to the client.
At the same lecture, Morgentaler also ridiculed the idea that life begins at conception.
Jack Layton
On November 14, 1988, Toronto voters elected a slate of “reformers” to their city council. The reformers support a slowing of downtown Toronto’s overheated pace of office developments, traffic congestion and urban congestion.
Their election has enhanced the stature of NDP alderman Jack Layton who has championed these causes in the past. Unfortunately, Layton is also a champion of homosexuals and an ardent pro-abortionist. On the day of Canada’s first Operation Rescue, October 29, he was present at the Morgentaler abortuary, encouraging some dozens of screaming feminists and homosexuals to break through the pro-life blockade. This they failed to accomplish.
