Brian Jenkins

Dear Friends of Life,

I trust this letter finds you and your loved ones well.

At this time of year, we are moving along with various projects – welcoming guest speakers to Montreal, coordinating the 40 days prayer vigil for the end of abortion, planning the Triduum for Life including the day trip to the National March for Life in Ottawa, and more. See this month’s bulletin and subsequent ones as well as our web site for on-going details.

There is also an all new initiative, one closely aligned with our organization’s political aim, one which has taken root elsewhere across the country -  the defunding of abortions from our provincial financed health care system.

Yes, abortion on demand is covered by our tax dollars.

• FACT: Quebec taxpayers fund at least $26 million every year for the killing of children in the womb.
• FACT: There is a shortage of family doctors and nurses, and funding for elder care and for treating autistic children sorely lacking.
• FACT: Abortion is an elective procedure that is not medically necessary.
• FACT: Over 96% of abortions are performed for convenience, as a back-up birth control method.

$26 million is a conservative figure. This past December the deVerber Institute in Toronto published a scientifically rigorous examination of the impact of abortion on women’s health. Its findings show how abortion adversely impacts physical health, both immediate and long term, contributes to intimate partner violence, and more.

$26 million is a conservative figure, representing only the direct costs. The TRUE cost rises significantly when accounting for the indirect charges due to abortion’s complications. These latter, as per the deVerber study, include breast cancer, infertility, autoimmune disease, mental health, and more.

So, figuring in both the direct and indirect costs, the TRUE price tag of abortion from these complications easily drains our health care system of upwards to $100 million annually!

Are you ok with that?

Also, the business school at the Université de Montréal came out with its annual evaluation of Québec’s productivity and prosperity and the conclusions were not good. The bottom line stated that we are living well above our means. Many of us believed as much, yet to have the prestigious École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal corroborate our intuition is affirming.

Is it not time for Quebec legislators to treat our money with respect!

To use our funds for Health Care and not some medically unnecessary procedure - i.e., abortion?

The cash windfall from defunding abortion can either be used to spruce up our ailing health care system. For $26 million per year, Quebec could hire 138 family doctors or 360 nurses to help alleviate the shortage crisis. Or purchase 17 life-saving MRI machines every year. Or provide crucial therapy to 328 autistic children each year. All theese uses of taxpayer dollars would present genuine health care… rather than killing babies.

It’s one thing for an individual to make a personal choice to kill a baby in the womb. It’s quite another to expect the rest of us to pay for it.

So we urge everybody to join us on Monday, February 17, 2014, outside the CLSC des Faubourgs, 1250 Sanguinet Street, (between ste. Catherine and René-Levesque), site of late-term abortions in Québec, at 11 a.m. to inaugurate this defund campaign.

For life,

Brian A. Jenkins, Outreach Coordinator