From here:

Judging by the explanation for its decision to restrict public access to abortion figures, Ontario’s government should now be preparing a lengthy list of other statistics that are too dangerous to be shared with the public.

Questioned as to why it had begun making it harder to obtain figures related to the number of abortions performed in the province, a practice that has been increasingly evident to researchers for some time, the provincial Ministry of Health responded in a statement to the National Post: “Records relating to abortion services are highly sensitive and that is why a decision was made to exempt these records.”

The exemption referred to is an amendment last year to Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). The act is intended to “increase the financial accountability of organizations in the broader public sector,” in part by making statistics publicly available. Abortion figures are excluded from the act.

Why? Well, because they’re “sensitive.”

If abortion is merely the expulsion of a group of cells from a woman’s womb, there is really no reason to conceal the number of expulsions.

If abortion is the terminating of a person’s life, then there should be a law against it.

The Ontario government can’t have it both ways: either publish the figures or have an honest parliamentary debate on limiting abortion – I would like it gone, but let’s start with “limiting”.