Exporting the Western culture of pre-birth infanticide:

Harper must make abortion part of health pledge, Ignatieff says.

If Stephen Harper wants to champion the health of the world’s poor mothers, he’ll have to go to bat for abortion, too, Michael Ignatieff says.

The Prime Minister has signalled that he plans to make maternal health in the developing world Canada’s cause when he is host of the G8 summit in June.

Mr. Ignatieff said any efforts to reduce high death rates among mothers will have to include broader access to contraception. He also raised a fear that the Conservatives, like their counterparts in the United States, would shy away from funding family-planning agencies that support abortion rights.

Not content with killing millions of unborn babies in the West, liberals want to export the holocaust: a revolting example of liberal abortion evangelism.

An interesting defence:

In an impassioned plea before a US court, a born-again Christian argued on Thursday that he had killed a prominent abortion doctor because he wanted to save the lives of unborn babies.

Scott Roeder, 51, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder in the May 2009 slaying of Dr George Tiller in the foyer of a Kansas church.

Instead in an unorthodox move he is seeking to convince jurors that he is guilty of the lesser offence of voluntary manslaughter, because he honestly believed he was saving people from greater harm.

George Tiller performed late-term abortions: he aborted babies after the 21st week of pregnancy, babies that have the potential for surviving outside the womb.

Now, if Roeder had killed a madman with a gun threatening babies in a nursery, he would be a hero; is his murder of Tiller substantially different?

More on this:

I used to labour under the misapprehension that if one could convince an abortionist that he is murdering babies, the battle would be won and he would stop; apparently not:

Dallas, TX (LifeNews.com) — The late-term abortion practitioner at the new abortion center in Dallas has admitted in a shocking interview that he kills unborn children during abortions. Curtis Boyd is one of the few abortion practitioners to admit what he is doing, but he has no qualms with his job.

Boyd opened the first abortion center in Dallas in 1973 after the Supreme Court handed down the roe v. Wade decision allowing virtually unlimited abortions.

In an interview with WFAA yesterday after news surfaced that he re-opened his late-term abortion center, Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center, in the huge metro area last week after more than a year following the closure of the Aaron’s abortion facility, he makes a startling admission.

“Am I killing?” Boyd said. “Yes, I am. I know that.”

He told WFAA that he is a former Baptist ordained minister who is now a part of the pro-abortion Unitarian Universalist church who says he prays often about the abortions he does.

“I’ll ask that the spirit of this pregnancy be returned to God with love and understanding,” he said.

I really don’t know what that last sentence means, other than a being euphemism for baby returned to sender – like an unwanted parcel.

Addictions used to be simple: tobacco, alcohol, sex, drugs, liberalism. No more: perversity is embedded deep within the 21st Century zeitgeist. Now we have people addicted to killing babies:

Irene Vilar worries that her self-described “abortion addiction” will be misunderstood, twisted by the pro-life movement to deny women the right to choose.

Most of the twisting is contained in the overused drab euphemism “the right to choose”.

Abortion not only kills its intended victim, it harms babies yet to be conceived:

Women who have abortions could be posing a risk to future children, according to research published today.

A Canadian medical study found that those who abort a pregnancy could run the risk of giving birth to premature of low-weight children in subsequent pregnancies.

It discovered that women who had undergone more than one abortion had a 72 per cent increased risk for low birth weight and 93 per cent risk of prematurity.

It also found that women who had an abortion in the first or second trimester had a 35 per cent increased risk of giving birth to a low-weight birth baby and a 36 per cent increased risk of having a premature baby

It sounds like abortions have a more deleterious affect on subsequent babies than smoking: a mother who smokes is only 60% more likely to have a premature baby than one who doesn’t. Perhaps abortion clinics will be forced to display conspicuous warning signs to this effect, just like cigarette packaging. Perhaps not.

I always thought the Green party was in favour of life, fecundity, getting back to nature, banishing machines and industry and establishing an idyllic Shire on Earth full of peace-loving Hobbits; possibly with a little nudism thrown in on the side.

Apparently not: it is actually the party of death.

The Australian Greens have urged federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon to intervene in Queensland’s abortion debate.

Queensland cabinet amended the state’s Criminal Code on Monday to protect doctors prescribing abortion drugs.

The move came after public hospitals, concerned about a coming court case in which a young couple has been charged in relation to a medical abortion, suspended the procedure.

Despite the amendments, hospitals are reportedly refusing to resume terminations and are sending patients interstate to receive them.

Medical abortions are still technically illegal under Queensland criminal law.

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called on Ms Roxon to convene an emergency meeting of all state and territory health ministers and attorneys-general to address the issue.

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called on Ms Roxon to convene an emergency meeting of all state and territory health ministers and attorneys-general to address the issue.

“The commonwealth has a responsibility to help resolve this legal confusion,” she said on Saturday.

“Women should have the right to access the health services they need, and to be able to make safe, legal choices.”