An Interim investigation has found that over the past half decade, the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health has had its federal government grants cut by more than 99 per cent.
The federation, formerly the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada and still the Canadian member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, has charitable status, according to the Canada Revenue Agency. The CFSH says on its website that it “promote(s) sexual and reproductive health and rights in Canada and abroad.” It also admits being a “pro-choice organization.” Its member affiliates, which operate in all 10 provinces, provide sex information, contraception and abortion referrals; according to REAL Women of Canada, it is the leading abortion referral service in Canada.
I don’t think pro-choice (or pro-abortion) organizations should receive government funding. I also don’t believe pro-life (or anti-abortion) organizations should receive government funding. If I had my druthers, nobody would receive government funding – we’d all finance our causes ourselves, like the big boys and girls we say we are.
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I thought there was a church out in B.C. last week that lost it’s charitable status because they spent more than 10% of their time talking about political issues (abortion and same-sex marriage). And Planned Parenthood has charitable status? Sounds weird to me.
Also kind of interesting to know that abortion is considered a political issue rather than a moral one (one resumes that churches still get to have opinions about moral issues)!
It’s a political issue because abortion has been made legal by our government. To be anti-abortion is to say that the government’s ruling is a mistake; therefore you are essentially anti-the government when you are pro-life. Doesn’t get much more political than that.
(1) abortion has not been “made legal”. We have an absence of law over the issue when the previous restrictions were struck down by a court and our governments declined to bring in any new law.
(2) by this logic, if abortion was declared illegal, everyone militating for increased access to abortion would be anti-government.
Shawn,
(1) You’re extrapolating a true fact about the state of the law into absurdity and your pedantry is missing the point. What is not prohibited by law is deemed to be allowed by law, i.e. legal. Abortion had legal restrictions; the Government removed them. If you want to use a phrase otyher than “made legal” to decribe that event, feel free, but it doesn’t affect the substance of what Julie said.
(2) You have replaced Julie’s “anti-the government” with “anti-government”, which doesn’t mean the same thing. Ignoring that, yes, if the Government banned abortion then people who want abortion to be legal would be against the Government. I find it odd that you imply that to say so is ridiculous.