November 1, 2024
There are obviously women out there who can read websites, are Christian, and want this kind of approach. What does it say about this Liberal government that they would like to take faith-based pregnancy counselling away from them?

Liberals target pregnant Christians seeking counselling

Pregnancy centres must abort, or advertise that they won’t — or lose charitable status

The Liberals are playing wedge politics again. They’ve released yet another in a long line of official attempts-to-save-their-arse announcements. This time, they’re letting Canadians know that they’ve had enough of pregnancy counselling centres that provide information about abortion — regardless of their faith — but do not offer referrals for the procedure or disclose that fact. No more charitable tax status for you!, the Liberals announced. Unless these clinics give in and go against their religious beliefs, or advertise openly that they won’t.

The announcement from Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was so strange that when I first read about it, I had no idea what they were talking about. The issue she described sounded so pervasive, so serious and important. The truth of the matter, as is often the case with the Liberals, is entirely different.

Yet, the background of the official statement makes the situation sound dire: “Concerns have been raised that some registered charities that offer reproductive health services to women, including pregnancy options counselling, may be spreading misinformation by presenting themselves as neutral, full-service pregnancy support service organizations when they are in fact anti-choice organizations that push women away from accessing the reproductive care of their choice.”

The Liberals are suggesting that this is happening to women, yet this serious announcement was not accompanied by facts or figures about the severity of this problem that supposedly requires the revocation of charitable status. And, as we all know, the Liberals are great at proposing answers to problems that don’t actually exist.

So, what are these faith-based clinics like, anyway? Since the Liberal government did not provide a list of serious offenders and offences, I went looking myself.

Interesting Read…

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