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

Joyce Arthur is at it again. She's just released her third hit piece against Pregnancy Care Centres (PCCs) in Canada. These centres support women through unplanned pregnancies. Their grave and unforgivable sins are that they are pro-life, not pro-abortion, and frequently Christian. And they will not refer for abortions. Which is a spurious argument at best, since in Canada you don't need a referral for an abortion, a fact well known by Arthur.

Her latest report is really just a rehash (reminds me of hash-browned potatoes) of Arthur's 2016 and 2009 reports (both of which have been soundly refuted here and here ). Also recall that Arthur received a taxpayer funded grant of $27,400 to write her vicious 2009 report.

In this post I'd like to take aim at just one aspect of Arthur's report, and will write more posts later as necessary.

The first notable aspect of most of Arthur's writings, and this report in particular, is her undisguised disdain for religion, and in particular, all things Christian and Catholic. It's also hard not to notice what usually goes along with theme number one, that is, theme number two: all of these centres that she takes aim at, also (in her mind anyway) deceive, misinform, give inaccurate information, are biased etc.

I have detailed below the number of times Arthur uses these terms in her report.

• Catholic (23 times)
• Christian (24 times)
• Protestant (2 times)
• Orthodox (3 times)
• Jesus Christ (2 times)
• Religious (94 times)

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• fear-mongering (2 times)
• dissuade (5 times)
• biased (7 times)
• referrals (12 times) ie as in do not provide abortion referrals
• inaccurate (9 times)
• deceptive (9 times) ie “From their very inception, CPCs have employed deceptive practices and disinformation to further their agenda.”
• misinformation (34 times)
• disinformation (3 times) as far as I know this word makes its first appearance in this report. I expect we'll see more of this word from Arthur in the future.
• anti-choice (186 times)
• misleading (25 times)

Arthur makes great pains, in all of her writings, to make sure her readers know that pregnancy Care centers are run by Christians, and then in her next breath--or the next 117 pages--informs the world that these very same Christians deceive, misinform and fear monger to women. All of these claims have been refuted here and here.

Extreme pro-abortion idealogues would like to see a world where pregnancy Care centres simply cease to exist. This is Arthur's goal. This abortion utopia would ensure that only one option remains for a woman in an unplanned pregnancy situation: abortion.