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This past March, someone we do not know filed an access-to-information request with Santé Québec, the agency that now runs Quebec's public health network. The request asked every regional health authority for its internal rules on abortion. The answers are now public. We have seen them.

What struck me most is not what they reveal about this deadly procedure. It is the banality with which they treat it.

The suction cannulas are numbered

At a CLSC (local community health centre) in east-end Montreal, the suction cannulas are numbered. The number, the manual notes, corresponds roughly to the number of weeks of pregnancy.

At the end, the doctor examines "the products." They are sent for incineration.

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In the new nurse's reading list, the legal framework fits in one line: abortion is "free and legal throughout the pregnancy." Further down, among the general trainings, is a five-minute capsule on "kindness toward children."

In the same package, from the same health authority, is the nurses' checklist for when a baby dies before or at birth. Check the baby's first and last name with the parents. Offer the memory box. Explain the burial options. Tell them about the annual angels' ceremony in June. From 19 weeks, tell the mother she is entitled to parental benefits.

In one file, a wanted child with a name. In the other, the unwanted child, who is reduced to "products."

"Population: adolescents"

The health authority for downtown Montreal released a procedure, in force since February 2024, for third-trimester abortions on girls under 18. The girl is admitted to the birthing unit of Sainte-Justine, Montreal's children's hospital. That morning, in the document's words, "the feticide is performed with xylocaine and KCl" (potassium chloride). Then labour is induced. If needed, staff sign a maternity-leave certificate. A follow-up visit is booked "routinely," six to eight weeks later.

The designated contact works at the hospital's clinic for teenage mothers and young children.

The same authority reported 655 patients in 2025-2026 for abortions committed at 14 weeks or later. Asked for its own internal policies on abortion, it answered that none exist.

In the Eastern Townships, the Sherbrooke facility takes pregnancies "at all stages." Its pharmacy order sheet is titled "voluntary termination of pregnancy up to 23 weeks." Asked how many abortions it commits after 12 weeks, the health authority said its systems cannot tell without opening every patient's file.

A standing order from the same region, adopted in 2009 and never revised, says that once the misoprostol is inserted, "the user cannot change her decision, because this drug can cause malformations in the fetus."

And a West-Island, Montreal "health centre" that commits abortions tells women on its website: "Out of respect for our clientele, do not bring children with you."

The banality of evil

These horrible documents were written by nurses, doctors and managers. That is what makes them so hard to read.

The reality of the child keeps breaking through the paperwork: a first name, a memory box, a maternity leave, a waiting room where small children are not welcome. Each time the truth about abortion starts breaking through, a procedure closes over it. The truth is removed and empty words take its place, just as the child's life is suctioned out and a vacuous "freedom" takes its place.

Abortion works like a desertifier. It dries out souls, then a whole society, until nothing is left but a moral and spiritual desert. It starts in the abortion facilities. From there it spreads to the universities and the newsrooms, where lies and euphemisms blow day after day, like hot, dry winds, pushing the sands ever farther. They call it freedom.

None of this is peculiar to Quebec. Canada has had no law on abortion since 1988.

We called him Daniel

In February 2023, we learned that a baby at 38 weeks was scheduled to be aborted the next morning at Sacré-Cœur Hospital in Montreal. We asked you to pray. The regional health authority wrote to us that no "feticide" had taken place and asked us to stop "relaying false information."

A month later, Le Journal de Montréal reported that a late-term abortion procedure had taken place the next day "as planned," and "according to standards."

We called him Daniel.

For 37 years

Since 1989, the Quebec Life Coalition has looked at the tragedy of abortion without looking away. We are told the debate is over. It is not over for us, and it will not be, as long as we have a voice and friends like you who pray and give.

Without prayer, we would have stopped long ago. So I am asking you for two things today.

• Pray for the children, for their mothers, and for the nurses and doctors who fill in these forms. And pray for us at QLC to hold strong, in the midst of the spiritual desert of modern-day Quebec.
• Give, so that we can keep seeing and testifying to what others would rather not, and keep saying it out loud.

We receive no government funding--in fact, the government is currently our greatest opponent. Our only support is you. And with over $15,000 still to go, every gift between now and Thursday, October 1 counts.

For Life,

Georges Buscemi
President, Quebec Life Coalition

P.S. Don't take our word for it. The procedure for girls under 18 is in the Centre-Sud health authority's own response, published on its website. Read it, then help us keep telling it.