Abortion funding drains $$ from real healthcare

[harizotoh7]

Ontario's Health spending for 2010-2011 is 46.1 billion. Billion. 30-50 million is not really enough to be causing serious health care drains. Furthermore it's shortsighted because it would increase costs in other areas. It could increase unsafe abortions by non-professionals, and the unplanned/unwanted children will end up costing society even more. Especially if they're poor. Poor people cost society a lot of money.

[harizotoh7]

@harizotoh7 In addition, Pro life supporters dramatically overstate the side effects of abortion. For instance, the campaign for life cites a link between abortion and breast cancer. There is no link, and many studies refute it. A few pro life campaigners (such as Dr. Joel Brind) refuse to believe this, and try to spin every negative study as somehow showing a link. He's one of the ones who still support such a link, as all the other scientists have moved on.

[CampaignLifeTV]

@harizotoh7 The breast cancer link has been shown by over 20 peer reviewed studies. Some of the "research" trying to disprove the link is not even peer-reviewed and the methodology shoddy. Consider complications like perforations, uterine hemorrhage, PTSD and suicide, and the total cost of abortion can escalate to hundreds of millions/ year. Legitimate areas of health care are being neglected i.e. child autism, elder care, doctor shortages, so put the money there. $30M can hire 200 new doctors!

[CampaignLifeTV]

@harizotoh7 Reality is opposite to your assumption. A higher birth rate is economically beneficial to Canada. The more babies born, the more adult workers we’ll have in future to pay taxes, in turn, funding government programs like health care & old age security. The decline in Canada’s birth rate below replacement level is WHY our health care system is bankrupt. When these programs were created, the math was based on more workers than retirees. Today, we have fewer workers for each pensioner.