All you unborn babies now--3 cheers for Henry!

How important is the R vs Morgentaler case here in Canada? Look at all the events being held to celebrate this landmark case that left Canada as the only western nation with no abortion law. I've listed the venues or supporters in some cases as well, just to give you a flavour of mainstream support that there is for our present open season on unborn babies:

1. University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Symposium to Mark the 20th Anniversary of R v. Morgentaler, Of What Difference: Reflections on the Judgment and Abortion in Canada Today. This symposium will examine the significance of the judgment today: What difference has it made to women, providers, and the politics of abortion in Canada?

2. Fundraising Reception for National Abortion Federation Canada’s Patient Assistance Fund. Many women lack the resources to pay for costs associated with abortion care, such as transportation, childcare, and medications. Also, some women cannot access medical coverage and require financial support. Donations to this fund will allow NAF Canada to provide financial assistance when it is urgently needed.

3. Ryerson Univ., Toronto. Another World is Possible: Cultures of Resistance. An evening of music, art, film, and poetry inspired by diverse struggles for justice as part of the World Social Forum Global Day of Action, and a special tribute to the reproductive choice movement on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Morgentaler Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in Canada.

4. Planned Parenthood Ottawa will be peacefully standing outside the
Morgentaler Clinic at 65 Bank Street to thank Dr. Henry Morgentaler and to remind everyone that there is still an ongoing struggle for accessibility nation-wide. If you would like to join us, please do. Bring pro-choice signs, bring your friends, sisters, brothers, coworkers, and neighbours. We anticipate anti-choice groups to be there as well. Also, on Tuesday, January 22, from 3pm-9pm, please come to a poster-making session for the rally at Planned Parenthood Ottawa, 251 Bank Street, Suite 201

5. House of Commons, Canada's Parliament Buildings, Ottawa. Gala Night, featuring Honourable Senator Lucie Pepin, Judy Rebick, video presentation from Dr. Henry Morgentaler, and performers Lesley Hoyles (singer), the Asinabika Women's Drumming Circle, and introducing Peggy Cooke, winner of the Pro-Choice Canada Contest,Women's Centre, University of Regina.

6. Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver campus. The Morgentaler Decision: Before and Beyond. Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the historic Supreme Court decision that finally gave Canadian women true reproductive choice. New documentary film "Henry."

I wonder what might happen if pro-life professors from the Univ. of Toronto Law School, or Ryerson, or Regina, or Simon Fraser were to hold events examining what poll after public poll says about Canadian's views of our present non-law on abortion? Such events would be denounced by the pro-abortionists as anti-woman--even though most Canadian and American women support restrictions. The profs would be criticized by their faculty colleagues, despite their academic freedom. Tenure and promotion decisions would now be in jeopardy.

What a hypocritical world we live in!