Letters to the Editor Tag

03 Nov 2011 Letter from ARPA Youth – Abortion: Tax support wrong

Langley Advance, Nov 1 2011: Abortion is wrong, and is paid for with our taxes, and I am very sad that Parliament is doing nothing to stop it. Though I would prefer a ban on abortion, let’s try to get a law in place that says that people who want an abortion must pay for it with their own money. Then our taxes should get used for better purposes: perhaps supporting adoption programs, and raising awareness about the harms of abortion.

03 Nov 2011 “Choice”

Lethbridge Herald, Nov 1 2011: A few weeks ago I wrote a letter to the editor outlining how abortion, if continued unchecked, can and indeed already is leading to infanticide.  It sparked a bit of a debate on the online forum, which is great.  I would like to openly refute one of the arguments made on that forum because, sadly, it is a common one, and one that doesn’t make much sense.  It is that of “choice” – that “it’s my body, and I can do with it what I want”. 

01 Nov 2011 Canada needs an abortion debate

Guelph Mercury, Oct 31: We need a national debate on abortion. The reality is that if we shut down this debate, we shut down freedom of speech and we harm our democracy. When our political leaders refuse to debate an issue that 52 per cent of Canadians want to have we, wittingly or unwittingly, are causing harm to our country. That the subject matter is abortion should make no difference. If the subject matter were murder, rape, women’s rights or what we teach our children in school, would we censure those debates? Of course not. Then why are we not allowed to debate abortion?

25 Oct 2011 Infanticide is the next step

ARPA Note: Wonder if your letters get noticed? Check out the comments below this letter on the Lethbridge Herald website. Lethbridge Herald, Oct 12 2011: Most of us would argue (hopefully) that killing a born child is murder, but what's the difference between a born and an unborn child? Very little. Canada accepts abortion. What's next? Killing disabled newborns? Healthy newborns? You may scoff, but this idea is becoming more and more acceptable. Just look at the Netherlands, as one example. But we don't even have to look that far; recently, a woman received a suspended sentence by an Alberta judge after being convicted of killing her healthy newborn son. The mother was not in some confused mental state; she planned this killing. The judge, however, reasoned that since there is no law on abortion, the majority of Canadians probably sympathize with the mother.