January 8, 2002
Campaign Life Coalition calls for de-listing of abortion
in response to Mazankowski Report

Campaign Life Coalition listened with interest to the Right Honourable Donald Mazankowski's report on Health care for the province of Alberta.

Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition says, "It is our hope that abortion services will be delisted. Abortion has always been a social choice not a medically necessary procedure."

Last fall a representative of CARAL sparred with MP Jason Kenny at a Parliamentary Finance Committee Meeting and admitted quite openly that abortion is a socio-economic problem not a medical one.

"Numerous polls have proven that the majority of Canadians do not want to pay for abortions", continues Mr. Hughes. "Surely at a time when health care dollars are scarce we should only fund procedures that are medically necessary. Abortion is an elective procedure. Even advocates of abortion call it a choice."

Campaign Life Coalition recommends that each province de-list abortion services, the deliberate taking of a healthy human life, from provincial health care funding. Only truly medically necessary procedures deserve tax funding.

Media Contact:
Jim Hughes, National President - Campaign Life Coalition, Toronto, Ont.
416-204-9749

Karen Murawsky, Director - Ottawa Public Affairs Office
613-729-0379

Mary Ellen Douglas, National Organizer - Campaign Life Coalition, Kingston, Ont.
613-389-4472

Campaign Life Coalition is Canada's national pro-life organization.