March 15, 2006
Recorded Death of Thousands of Babies released by StatsCan

Statistics Canada today released information that 103,768 babies were deliberately killed in their mothers’ wombs in the year 2003 in Canada. This death toll is added to the nearly three million slaughtered since 1969. There was a slight decline in abortions committed mostly among teen-aged girls, StatsCan reported.

“The magnitude of this atrocity appears to be lost on the average person in Canada,” said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC). “Canada likes to brag about its human rights record at home and abroad, while it ignores the mounting death toll that it has refused to stop,” he continued.

“Statistics are cold numbers but each one of these precious babies before birth are human beings who were systematically dismembered by doctors and this was paid for by the taxpayers,” said Mary Ellen Douglas, National Organizer of Campaign Life Coalition. “The death of each of these babies has been recorded in the Book of Life long before they were counted by StatsCan. The fact that the numbers are lower among teenage girls is encouraging, perhaps, but the final figures are staggering,” she stated.

Campaign Life Coalition calls on the federal government to enact legislation to protect the right to live for all Canadians from conception (fertilization) until natural death as they were directed by the Supreme Court in 1988.


Media Contacts (in Montreal):

Mary Ellen Douglas, CLC National Organizer, Toronto, 416-204-9749
Aidan Reid, Director, CLC Public Affairs Office, Ottawa, 613-729-0379

Fighting for Truth and Justice, Campaign Life Coalition is a National Pro-Life Organization representing over 100,000 families across Canada


Campaign Life Coalition