No, There's No Consensus For Abortion. There's Political Cowardice

In her open letter, published by the Ottawa Citizen, Marissa Poisson rebuts Ignatieff's claim that Canada has reached a consensus on abortion:

In the 1988, the very year I was born, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down our country's abortion law and Parliament has since failed to pass any bill at all on abortion.

Abortion on demand became legal and funded by taxpayer's dollars even up to the ninth month of pregnancy in Canada not because that is the will of all Canadians but rather because of political cowardice.

According to a new Angus Reid public opinion poll, only 20 per cent of Canadians are aware of the current status quo of abortion in Canada. When informed about existing regulations, only 30 per cent endorsed them. This hardly amounts to a consensus.

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Well said.

And here's another letter to the editor: Jim Rabyniuk from Newmarket, Ont would like to ask Ignatieff what he thinks of sex-selective abortion and how this may help a woman's rights and/or health. I guess it's a rhetorical question.

Update: Mrs Ashe blogger has published an open letter to the Prime Minister, commending him for his stand on defunding "planned parenthood". It's a well-argumented letter, written by a pro-life woman, a mother, grandmother, and a member of the Canadian Federation of University Women.