THE CADRE, Nov. 5.....page 1+ 
     
    
   
   
    
     1,000 women die from abortions 
     
    
   
   
    
     Br.an CO'RITLCL 
     
    

    
     The critics say to us "If you 
     
     dumb women would only use birth 
     
     control, you Wouldn't need abortions" 
     
     or more kindly "I disagree with 
     
     abortion but think birth control 
     
     information and devices should be 
     
     made available." 
     
    

    
     Cf coursc, they should be made 
     
     available. Free of charge in community 
     
     clinics. Birth control information 
     
     should be distributed widely. Al- 
     
     most everyone (except the Catholic 
     
     Chirch) has reconized the spectre 
     
     of overpOpulation and need for 
     
     contraception. 
     
    

    
     It must be stressed that 
     
     abortion is a birth control method 
     
     and one of the most effective. 
     
    

    
     Right now most contraceptive methods 
     
     available have a significant failure 
     
     rate (3 per cent a 20 per cent or 
     
     more). Add some (the IUD, condom 
     
    

    
     and coitus interruptus) represent 
     
     little improVement from ancient 
     
     Egyptian or Roman times. 
     
    

    
     The Pill has been a major break 
     
     through in effectiveness but many 
     
     women simply cannot take it or 
     
     are rightfully worried about its 
     
     long term effects. 
     
    

    
     Given the present state of medical 
     
     and scientific knowledge and scientific 
     
     birth control programmes must be 
     
     backed by: 
     
    

    
     1. Government sponsored research 
     
     into birth control and “reversible 
     
     sterilization". 
     
    

    
     _2) a liberal abortion law and 
     
     adequate abortion facilities. 
     
    

    
     An ounce of prevention is worth 
     
     a pound of cu e —sure - but sickness 
     
     sill strikes_ e still need the cure for 
     
     pregnawe" abortiOn. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Abortion is a reality. Let's have 
     
     legality and morality aside for the 
     
     ‘moment and just look at the facts. 
     
     Each year thirty million women 
     
     around the world have abortions. 
     
     These women are not degerate or 
     
     'promiscuous -- 80 per cent of 
     
     them already having several children. 
     
    

    
     Canada's "liberal" abortion laws 
     
     are still very restrictive and most 
     
     women who find themselvas unwillingly 
     
     pregnant turn to illegal abortions. 
     
     There are at least 100,000 of these 
     
     performed each year in this country. 
     
     100,000 women are so determined not 
     
     to bear a child that they risk 
     
     imprisonment and death. 
     
    

    
     Of these determined 100,000 app— 
     
     roximately one—fifth are admitted 
     
    

    
     'to hospital for postabortiVe 
     
     .complications. Some of these com- 
     
     plications lead tqseribus injury, 
     
     sterilization or death. About 1,000 
     
     Canadian women die needlessly each 
     
     year as the result of a botched 
     
     abortion. 
     
    

    
     And is it any wonder? Driven 
     
     out of the hOSpital and clinic, 
     
     abortion becomes dangerous. A 
     
     good many abortionists particularly 
     
     those a poor woman can afford, are 
     
     not medically trained at all and 
     
     use improper and unsterile methods. 
     
     Desperate women try to about them- 
     
     selves with a frightening array of 
     
     tools— knitting needles, vacuum 
     
     cleaners, coat hangers, lysol. 
     
    

    
     These women don't need quot- 
     
     ations from the Criminal Code 
     
     or the bible. They need safe 
     
     abortions. 
     
    

    
     RESPECT FOR LIFE 
     
    

    
     That's why I have little patience 
     
     with those who get dewy-eyed about a 
     
     fetus' right to life. 
     
    

    
     Any decision as to when life begins 
     
     must be aritrary. The church that makes 
     
     the most fuss hasn't decided on the 
     
     magic moment itself. The law doesn't 
     
     require a death certificate for a 
     
     miscarriage and, as far as I know, 
     
     the Catholics don't hold funerals 
     
     for then either. . 
     
    

    
     Paul Erhlich has pointed out 
     
     that to confuse a blueprint with 
     
     a building. Our main concern must 
     
     be with the right of a woman to 
     
     decide when and how many children 
     
     she will bear. 
     
    

    
     If a woman decides, as 100,000 
     
     did last year, that for some reason- _ 
     
     physical,emotional or financial— that She. 
     
     cannot give birth to a child that 
     
     has been conceived in her body, 
     
     that is her decision and it has-been 
     
     be enough for us. He must not stand 
     
     in the way with the 0 law that forces 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
          
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
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     Our goal is to have abortion re- 
     
     moved entirely from the Criminal 
     
     Bode. The matter should be question 
     
     of concern only to the patient and 
     
     her doctor and should be covered by 
     
     xcdicare (like an appendectomy or 
     
     any other operation). 
     
    

    
     There should be local clinics 
     
     hat perform abortions. This would 
     
     decrease the demand for valuable 
     
     hospital bed Space and the clinic 
     
     could serVe the community with birth 
     
     control information and prescriptions 
     
     pre and post natal care. 
     
    

    
     Respect for the dignity of human 
     
     life, demands that we work until this 
     
     slogan is truth.‘ ' 
     
    

    
     ~ "Evory mother a willing mother. 
     
    

    
     Every child a wanted child." 
     
    

    
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     her to undergo humiliation and pain. $rm 
     
     Lhe shouldn't have to fear legal gy,§ 
     
     reprisals or death. . a'fi 
     
     In countries 0,? 
     
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     where legal abortions, performed by 
     
     trained persons is available deaths 5? 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     from abortion are minimal. For example 0 e " . 
     
     Czechoslovakia has had no deaths in SFg? 
     
     1h0,000 legal abortions. o g Q” 
     
    

    
     It is clear that 1,000 women died I”.e e :? 
     
     senselessly last year. We have any ' .7 330*, 
     
     reapect for life, we must demand f" gi’ E 
     
     that those deaths stop. How? By -§4?.§1§ 
     
     making available free and safe g_¢ f3} 
     
     abortions to all who ask for if"? a“ "1' A A 
     
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