January 27, 2005

Minister of Health, Ujjal Dosanjh, is using his political office to push a pro-abortion agenda

Minister of Health Ujjal Dosanjh warned New Brunswick’s Health Minister Ely Robichaud that he will enforce the Canada Health Act and penalize New Brunswick if the province fails to fund abortions in the private Morgentaler abortuary. Media sources reported that Morgentaler met with Dosanjh in Fredericton yesterday.

Robichaud says he has no intention of permitting the province to pay for private abortions.

“It appears that the Minister of Health is following the pro-abortion agenda which he established in British Columbia before he became Canada’s Health Minister”, said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. “We applaud Health Minister Robichaud and encourage him not to concede to the federal minister’s heavy-handed threats,” he continued.

“Canadians wait for months for treatment in health clinics for serious medical problems

and the Health Minister has not been pressuring the provinces with regard to this problem,” said Mary Ellen Douglas. “Abortion is a life-style choice not a medical problem. Healthy babies are being killed,” she continued.

Campaign Life Coalition calls for the Minister of Health to stop this pressure on the provinces to fund private abortuaries.

Media Contacts:

Gillian Long, Campaign Life Coalition Toronto 416-204-9749
Mary Ellen Douglas, Campaign Life Coalition National Organizer 613-389-4472
Aidan Reid, Director of CLC Public Affairs Office Ottawa 613-729-0379

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