The staggering human cost of abortion in Canada since 1969
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‘Abortion was not good for Canada. It’s killing us,’ 4MyCanada’s ‘Just the Facts – Did Canada Commit Suicide by Abortion? Birth Rate Dips Below Extinction Rate’ video states.
(LifeSiteNews) — Priests for Life Canada is encouraging Canadians to share a video from a Canadian pro-freedom and religion advocacy group that shows the overwhelming societal harms caused by decades of abortion in Canada.
“Priests For Life Canada encourages you to watch this video from 4MyCanada which highlights the societal impact of abortion on our country since 1969,” the group noted in a recent X post.
The video, released by 4MyCanada on its YouTube channel, is titled “Just the Facts – Did Canada Commit Suicide by Abortion? Birth Rate Dips Below Extinction Rate.”
“Abortion was not good for Canada. It’s killing us,” says the narrator in the video, going on to add that the reality is, it is one of the “most uncomfortable issues in our national conversation.”
“Many Canadians hold deeply held pro-life convictions because of our faith. Others don’t. So rather than debating the procedure itself, the impacts on women and families, or the moral positions surrounding it, let’s simply look at the facts and the math.”
The video noted that since abortion became legal in Canada in 1969, “Canada has no nationwide criminal law restricting abortion at any stage of pregnancy.”
“We are the only Western nation with no laws on abortion. Based on Government of Canada statistics, an estimated 4.8 million abortions have taken place since legalization. However, statisticians widely acknowledge that these figures are incomplete.”
Abortion was decriminalized in Canada in 1969 when then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (Justin Trudeau’s father) passed a heavily criticized omnibus bill that amended the Criminal Code to allow abortions to be done in hospitals under permissive circumstances.
This law remained in effect until the Supreme Court of Canada struck it down and labeled it unconstitutional in the 1988 Morgentaler decision. The law was removed on a technicality, with the court ruling that it violated a woman’s right to “security of the person” because it could not be applied equally across the country.