ABORTION HOLOCAUST
Objections are often heard when references are made to the astronomical
numbers of abortion taking place every year as an "abortion holocaust." In
reaction to such a reference I had made in a letter to the editor on
abortion, one reader replied in a
heated letter, entitled "There Has Only Been One Holocaust." In it he took
exception to my likening of Henry Morgentaler`s abortion franchise here in
Fredericton to an Auschwitz killing chamber. One can easily understand that
reader`s resentment at
seeing something which he considers a widely accepted legalized procedure in
Canada used to trivialize the awesome significance of the crimes perpetrated
against the millions of Jewish people at Auschwitz and other barbaric Nazi
killing centers. However, in our effort to frame the Holocaust as a unique
event in human history, we must not also trivialize the terrible reality of
abortion performed in abortion 'clinics' and hospital facilities throughout
the world.
No one really knows exactly how many abortions are performed in the world.
Worldwide, the United Nations conservatively estimate that close to 60
millions are sacrificed on the altars of mostly male abortionists. Added to
these acknowledged abortions are the
unreported countless millions of very early abortions caused by
abortifacients such as IUDs(Inta-Uterine Devices), the Pill, and the human
pesticide RU-486, that prevent implantation of the human embryo on the
uterine wall. These all meet the scientific,
medical, and most certainly, moral definition of abortion.
In the West, it is not exaggerated to talk in terms of genocide - a fully
acceptable expression for what can now only be considered as dying highly
industrialized countries where the birthrate has plummeted to
non-replacement levels that even aggressive
immigration policies will not be able to remedy.
In Canada unborn babies are being exterminated at a rate now of over 106,000
a year. Approximately 2 million unborn children have been destroyed in
Canada since the 1969 legal sanctioning of abortion in 1969 by Pierre
Trudeau and his overwhelmingly
Catholic cabinet.
Won`t we ever learn? As with the Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany or the
blacks slaves in the U.S., the scenario for legalizing abortion in the
affluent West was exactly the same: Supreme Court declares unborn children
as non-person; unborn is considered as
property of 'owner'; right-to-life activists should not impose their
morality on society; abortion is legal. Sad to say, many good and sincere
people acting out of different and deep religious conviction could also be
found to be on both sides of
those two social issues. The discrimination then was on the basis of
ethnicity and skin colour. Now, it is on the even weaker basis of age and
place of residence (outside of the abdominal wall as opposed to inside).
The least bit of reflection on the calamity of abortion as it is commited in
western society should easily dispel the notion that labelling abortion as a
holocaust demeans in some way the unique horrendous event that constitutes
the Holocaust. It`s primarily a
question of perspective.
I also believe Henry Morgentaler`s jewish background has justifiably been
brought into the abortion debate because of the bleak irony of having a
survivor of an evil nationalistic mentality, under which his parents were
exterminated as worthless
junk, performing similar tasks on human beings which he describes as mere
blobs of protoplasm.
Thaddee Renault
Pro-Life Program