Government of Canada buys into misinformation about Crisis Pregnancy Centres

According to a recent ATIP I did, the government of Canada says that Crisis Pregnancy Centres:

disseminate abortion myths to pregnant individuals in crisis...Research by XXXXXX (probably Joyce Arthur) and colleagues of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (2023) has consistently found that in presenting information, these groups fail to explicitly disclose their religious agenda and anti-abortion sentiments. CPCs spread false medical information...

For the record, I and others have consistently found that ARCC's reports are full of misinformation and disinformation. (see links below for these rebuttals)

My ATIP to Health Canada:

"What evidence does the Public Health Agency have to issue a warning that "Crisis pregnancy centres ... often look like clinics or support centres, but they are designed to discourage people from getting an abortion"? Also please provide me with your evidence that Crisis pregnancy centres "are designed to discourage people from getting an abortion" (emphasis added)

The government of Canada has also posted statements on their official websites based on these untruths.

From Health Canada's website:

Crisis pregnancy centres

Crisis pregnancy centres are usually run by anti-abortion organizations. They often look like clinics or support centres, but they are designed to discourage people from getting an abortion. (emphasis added)

From the department of Finance we have this statement:

concerns have been raised that some registered charities that offer reproductive health services to women, including pregnancy options counselling—and that are provided federal supports under the tax system—may be spreading misinformation by presenting themselves as a neutral, full-service pregnancy support service organization, when they are in fact anti-choice organizations that push women away from accessing the reproductive care of their choice. By concealing the true nature of their services, these organizations, known as crisis pregnancy centres, are restricting the rights of vulnerable pregnant women to choose the reproductive care appropriate to them and their circumstances...According to the Abortion Rights Coalition, there are about 157 anti-choice crisis pregnancy centres in Canada, of which 90.5 per cent are operated by registered charities. (emphasis added)

My ATIP identifies ARCC's reports that spread myths about Crisis Pregnancy Centres, and all of these reports are used as the government's "evidence" against CPCs. These myths have been refuted many times. Yet still the lies are spread and our Canadian government buys into them. The ATIP also references studies from the United States, based on the American experience of CPCs, which of course have nothing to do with the Canadian experience, so these references can be and should be ignored.

Did the government of Canada make any effort at all to read the reports that refute the mythical allegations of the pro-abortion idealogues? There is not one word in the ATIP that would confirm that they did.

Below are the links the government of Canada has chosen to ignore about Crisis Pregnancy Centres preferring to take the word of the pro-abortions.

Part 1 - Pro-abortion report - anti-Christian hate speech?

Part 2 - Pro-abortion report - uses US experience of PCCs

ABORTION RIGHTS COALITION OF CANADA DECEITFUL ON CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTRES A Critique to ARCC’s “Review of Crisis Pregnancy Centre Websites in Canada”

October 2022 Pregnancy Care Centres in Canada:  A Necessary Rebuttal 

Crisis Pregnancy Centres In British Columbia A Respectful Rebuttal to a Disrespectful Report 

CPCs a target for calumny -- they won't refer for abortion refutes this Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Canada and Reproductive Justice Organizations’ Responses (Li references the Abortion Rights Coalition numerous hit jobs on CPCs. Of course she does.)

Slides from ATIP repeating the misinformation and disinformation from the pro-abortion ARCC

The Cart Access Project from a slide show: Page 413 Beware of Fake clinics...Crisis pregnancy centres ... actively mislead patients (For the record CART received tax payer funding of $4,387,931).

 

The pro-aborts think abortion is healthcare

Update July 23 VICTORY: Billboard Company Removes Abortion Ad After Pro-life Protest by Gianna Amata:

ARCC ran a counter campaign to pressure the company to keep the billboard up. It sent an email blast on July 15, encouraging supporters to reach out to the company to save the billboard. But the company refused to back down. ARCC later admitted that some of the letters supporters sent were hostile, for which it later apologized.

“Sadly, amongst the messages they [the billboard company] received from our supporters were some aggressive ones and even personal attacks on their staff, which caused harm and trauma,” Joyce Arthur, ARCC’s Executive Director, wrote in a July 21 email to supporters.

This doesn't surprise me a bit. 

UPDATE July 13. Brightside has responded to me: 

...we have paused this campaign while we review the matter with our client.

UPDATE July 10. I have it on good authority that the ARCC billboard was put up by the company Brightside Network Inc .

I have good news. And I have bad news.

The pro-abortions at the Abortion Rights Coalition tried last year to find a company to put up a pro-killing of pre-born babies billboard. The good news is that 45% of the companies contacted refused to put up the billboard, and 30% didn’t respond. Smart companies.

The bad news is that one company did agree to put it up (we don't know which company). ARCC's billboard says Abortion is health care. Which of course is a lie because for the 102,705 children who were killed last year before they were born, I am pretty sure those children would disagree that abortion is healthcare. Yea I'm pretty sure about that.

If there is still any doubt that abortion is not healthcare check this out Abortion is Not Healthcare: A Message from the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine

Not only is abortion not health care, it is a medical atrocity and a grave legal injustice. Just as slavery and the Dred Scott decision unjustly denied the constitutional right to liberty for individuals based on race; abortion deprives innocent children their right to life based on age alone and the Roe decision has no rational basis in law.

The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine represents more than 30,000 healthcare professionals, including CMA members, committed to promoting and upholding Hippocratic medicine’s fundamental principles.

And what about the poor women who regret their abortion and or suffered psychological trauma after an abortion? That sign could be quite the trigger for them.

This ad is currently running in London Ont. I sent a letter to the mayor yesterday to voice my disapproval. You can send your own letter as well to Mayor Josh Morgan at mayor@london.ca.

Every year Canada's abortion rates go up: 2024

Canada's abortion numbers are up. Of course they are. There were 1,152 more abortions in Canada than there were in 2023. 

To make matters even worse, CIHI reported Ontario's abortions at 44,728, yet the Ontario Ministry of Health reported 53,708. So CIHI reported 8,980 less abortions than what Ontario reported.

Ontario abortions up by 1,241 from 2023

Ontario abortion numbers from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care report 53,708 abortions in 2024. That's 1,241 more than OMHLTC reported in 2023. Every year the numbers go up. Every darn year.

Out of province abortions. Once again most of them are from Quebec.

Sneaking MAID grants into Open Government database

I learned that taxpayers paid $289,226 to MAID advocates to create a podcast on MAID called Disrupting Death. I listened to five episodes. It is a pro-euthanasia podcast, as one would expect. (Maybe other episodes will be more neutral and or against MAID but somehow I doubt it.) It reminds me of the pro-aborts who love to gush over, and celebrate, abortion. The podcast was acknowledged on the university website:

Dr. Kathy M. Kortes-Miller, School of Social Work, Disrupting Death; An examination of Canadian Experiences with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), $289,226.

Because this is taxpayer money, I checked the government's grants and contributions database to find the grant. Which I did here. But surprise, surprise. The word MAID never appears in the description (I had to use the researcher's name to find the grant). Neither does "medical assistance in dying". In fact if you use either of those terms, or "disrupting death", to search the database, the grant does not show up. Yet clearly the money went to fund this pro-MAID podcast.

I have two questions:

1) What other grants that promote and celebrate MAID are likewise hidden in the Open Government database?

2) What are the chances that the government would also fund an anti-MAID podcast?