I sign up deliberately for a lot of email lists where I disagree with the outlook and messaging. For example, I get many Guttmacher emails about “attacks on reproductive rights.” I’ve never believed the outraged headlines. I simply wanted to see what those folks are researching.
I’d assume they would want to ramp up the rhetoric right now. But how? It’s been so over the top for so long.
Pro-lifers, too, need to watch out on this file. If we are outraged all the time, we cannot alert people to true dangers. It’s getting harder and harder in a world of fake news. It takes facts and figures. Like yesterday, Pat Maloney from Run With Life let us know that where CIHI (Canadian Institute for Health Information) reported 23,746 abortions in Ontario for 2014, the number is actually 45,471 abortions, based on OHIP billings.
This is news you can use and also, news you cannot dispute. This can be simply stated, no outrage required–make of it what you will.
I know I have outrage fatigue. Here’s my commitment to not add unnecessary outrage to the world.
This guy doesn’t like it when people cry wolf.
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There were somewhere between 144,000, and 145,000 births in Ontario in 2014. (source: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo04a-eng.htm ) That means that for every three births in Ontario there was one abortion, which jives with what I have been led to understand is the case. The 23,700 number seemed a little bit low.
You do need accurate statistics to comment properly. I wonder if the Ontario government thought that, if accurate statistics were not available, people would stop commenting on abortion? But if we can’t trust the abortion statistics from CIHI (and it seems, from this information that we can’t) how can we properly comment on what is going on in this country regarding abortion?