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Susan Holt has pledged to divert taxpayer money towards privately-owned abortion mills

The New Brunswick Liberal Party wants to divert scarce tax dollars away from genuine healthcare needs… to pay for more abortions instead! If elected, they would take money away from fixing New Brunswick's doctor and nurse shortage, to use it instead to pay for elective abortions to kill unborn babies at private, for-profit abortion facilities.

The Liberals have promised to repeal the time-honoured New Brunswick government Regulation #84/20, which bans taxpayer funds from paying for abortions at private facilities. This regulation has been in place for decades under both Liberal and PC premiers, out of respect for the pro-life values of many New Brunswickers... and their hard-earned money. But respect for time-honoured values - and for taxpayers' money - is now out the window under the Liberal leadershship of Susan Holt, who wants to virtue-signal with this politically-motivated spending.

But did you know that 59,000 New Brunswickers don’t have access to a primary care physician?1 And that there is a shortage of nurses across the province? Yet, in the face of these shortages, the Liberals have promised to subsidize private, for-profit abortion businesses by funding medically unnecessary, elective abortions, such as Clinic 554 in Fredericton which shut down recently because it wasn’t profitable enough for its owners.

Don’t let Susan Holt prioritize the killing of babies in the womb, and the profits of private abortion corporations, over genuine healthcare needs! It's bad enough that New Brunswick hospitals are already aborting innocent unborn children ever day. Let's not allow this tragedy to become even worse by letting Susan Holt funnel taxpayer money towards private abortion facilities!

Opportunity costs of abortion spending

Of course, pro-life New Brunswickers oppose abortion because it is an immoral violation of human rights. It unjustly ends an innocent human life, and violates God's fifth commandment, "Thou shall not kill". 

But did you realize that this "procedure" also represents an egregious abuse of taxpayers by the state? Each surgical abortion costs approximately $1,000. Chemical abortions rack up nearly the same price tag. And this doesn't even include the cost to the healthcare system of abortion complications, which are extremely common with both types of baby-killing procedures. Common complications include uterine perforations, sepsis and hemhorrage. Longer-term adverse effects include a higher risk of breast cancer, infertility, and more. Therefore, the real cost to taxpayers, if you factor in these routine complications, can easily be double (or more) the price tag of the controversial procedure.

As public policy, the funding of private abortion mills with finite healthcare tax dollars makes no sense. First of all, abortion is killing, not healthcare, and it violates the conscience rights of religious and pro-life citizens to force them to participate in this immoral act by funding it with their hard-earned money.

Secondly, there is a huge shortage in so many areas which go underfunded due to money scarcity. For example, in technologists who know how to operate MRI machines, ultrasounds and CAT scans. This staffing shortage across New Brunswick hospitals is resulting in some patients having to wait up to 644 days(2) for diagnostic imaging! Shouldn't the money Susan Holt wants to divert towards private, elective abortions be used instead to train and hire more full-time, nuclear imaging technologists? The average salary for such a technologist is $106,458(3), which represents the taxpayer burden of 106 elective abortions. If one assumes cost doubling as a result of complications, then just 53 abortions pays the salary for a full-time technologist.

An average annual salary for a registered nurse is approximately $89,000. For a family doctor, it's approximately $300,000. That represents the taxpayer burden for approximately 89 elective abortions, or 300 elective abortions, respectively.

Not medically necessary

Furthermore, everybody knows that pregnancy is not an illness, injury or disease. Almost all abortions are committed for reasons of lifestyle convenience. So, why spend scarce healthcare dollars on this medically unnecessary procedure, instead of funneling all of that money towards hiring 30 - 40 additional full-time medical imaging technologists to clear the backlog and meet the demands of a growing and aging population? Or, why not invest it in hiring more nurses, especially given the fact that the nursing field is suffering from burnout! The Liberal Party of New Brunswick's prioritization of for-profit abortion businesses is wrong. 

Sign our petition to express your opposition to diverting New Brunswick healthcare dollars away from genunine health care needs.

Please sign the petition below:

"I am totally opposed to diverting scarce healthcare dollars in New Brunswick away from the many underserved areas of genuine medical need, like fixing the doctor and nurse shortages, or buying life-saving MRI machines, in order to pay for medically-unnecessary abortions at private abortion mills. I want the New Brunswick government to use every cent available on genuine medical needs, not politically-motivated spending on privately-owned abortion profit centres."

Notes:
1. Global News, « New Brunswick doctor waitlist falls to 59,000: ‘This will alleviate some of the stress », Jan. 20, 2023
2. CBC Shift - NB with Vandessa Vander Valk, "Radiology Bottleneck", May 14, 2024
3. Indeed.com, "Nuclear medicine technologist salary in Canada", searched Sep. 5, 2024

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