Let's talk about real "substantial barriers", not pretend ones

In a memo to the Prime Minister from the PCO (from a previous ATIP that I did) was this statement:

(ie. as in, "substantial barriers" when it comes to getting an abortion)

To discover exactly what these "substantial barriers" were for transgender people I did another ATIP to the PCO and asked for copies of these studies. The PCO responded with this: 

"A thorough search of the records under the control of PCO was carried out on your behalf; however, no records relevant to your request were found. However, we recommend that you make the same request with Health Canada as they are more likely to hold material pertaining to the specifics of your request." (emphasis added)

The PCO advises the Prime Minister--allegedly based on studies--but they don't actually have any studies to back up their claim. What?

Next stop, I did an ATIP to Health Canada for these studies alleging that transgender people face "substantial barriers" to abortion services.

I received back two studies, both based on the same data. The title of the first study was "Abortion experiences and preference of transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive people in the United States". The second was "Abortion attempts without clinical supervision among transgender, non-binary and gender expansive people in the United States."

(The United States? They couldn't find any studies in Canada?)

So what are these alleged "substantial barriers" to transgender people wanting to kill their pre-born children? From the first study:

"To improve accessibility and quality of abortion care for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive patients, respondents most frequently recommended that abortion clinics adopt gender-neutral or gender-affirming intake forms, that providers use gender-neutral language, and that greater privacy be incorporated into the clinic." (emphasis added)

I'm trying to understand how not having a "gender-neutral or gender-affirming intake form" is a barrier to killing your pre-born child? I'm pretty sure that any woman in this country who wants to murder her pre-born child can do so. In fact, I'm 100% sure she can. 

The second study concluded:

"The reported experiences highlight systemic discrimination and barriers to abortion care for TGE individuals and that clinicians, researchers, policymakers and advocates must urgently work to address."

But I couldn't find anything in the study to corroborate this statement; there were no examples of "systemic discrimination and barriers".

The pro-aborts are constantly whining about poor abortion access in Canada. This country has the most unrestrictive, free for all abortion access in the entire world. Why they feel the need to constantly come up with made-up stuff about poor abortion access and barriers to abortion, is beyond me.

But there is a real barrier here. It is for the innocent, defenseless, tiny child in the womb to actually be born before she is murdered. Now that is a substantial barrier.

1,190 late term abortions in Canada for 2022/2023 (excluding Quebec)

Note: All the numbers reported exclude late-term abortions performed in Quebec.

Live birth late-term abortion numbers are down to 131 in 2022/2023 from 149 in 2021/2022 (18 less). That is the good news. The bad news is that late-term stillbirth abortions are up from 911 in 2021/2022 to 1,059 in 2022/2023 (148 more). And the worse news is, that these horrific abortions still happen at all.

That's a net 130 more late term abortions in 2022/2023 than in 2021/222.

All of these dead children are >= 20 weeks gestation. 

Seven of these children born alive after an abortion were 29+ weeks gestation. Nine of them were 25-28 weeks gestation when they died. 98 of them were 21-24 weeks gestation when they died. 

If someone had bothered to care for these children after their failed abortion, they could/would still be alive today.

2022/2023

2021/2022

Picture of what a 24 week old aborted baby looks like from Abort73 here.

Ontario abortions up by 9,361

Ontario abortion numbers from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care report 49,674 abortions in 2022. That's a whopping 9,361 more than CIHI just reported for the same year. And it's 7,646 more than OMHLTC reported in 2021. Whichever way you look at it, abortion numbers are going up. And CIHI is still underreporting abortions in Ontario, and most likely in all of Canada.

2022 Ontario abortions

2021 Ontario abortions

Canada's abortions up by 11%

Canada's 2022 abortion stats are out. And they are up by 11%. We've decapitated, disemboweled and dismembered more pre-born children in 2022 than in 2021.

That's 9,726 more dead little souls who will never draw their first breath. This is apparently what it means to be progressive. Thank God I am not.

Truth, lies, love and hate

It's Holy Week. The week before Jesus is crucified and dies to save man from his sins. 

“Pilate asked him, ‘So you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.’” — John 18:37

"What is truth?” retorted Pilate. 

I've been thinking about truth. And I've been thinking about lies. I've been thinking about love. And I've been thinking about hate. Do we build up? Or do we tear down?

Joyce Arthur of the Abortion Rights Coalition, spends a lot of time writing letters and petitions to politicians, accusing other groups of hate. 

In just one ATIP, ARCC's letters (and ARCC's followers' comments) to the Finance department use the word 'hate' 47 times when speaking about these other groups. Arthur alleges that these groups are 'hate groups', and therefore should have their Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) funding revoked. That's a lot of pages of very serious allegations against groups who support the sanctity of life.

What is truth? A very important question indeed.