Michael Coren, writing in the “Full Comment” section of the (Canada) National Post, argues that Canada’s lack of an abortion law reveals “biting hypocrisy,” particularly in regard to people with disabilities.

Our country boasts that it cares deeply for the handicapped, yet provides publicly funded testing so that handicapped children can be aborted. The gene for Down syndrome was discovered by a man who thought it would help us to prepare for Down’s babies and improve their lives. Instead, it’s being used to commit a form of pre-birth genocide on some of the most innocent, loving and beautiful people on Earth. Leave your car in a handicapped parking spot and you’ll be fined. Abort your handicapped child and you’ll receive government financing.

… We have allowed the cult of the self to blind our vision of what is good and bad, right and wrong. Choice has become taste, sexual love has become appetite, people have become disposable. Unless we allow the weakest to be born we are denying what underpins the very compassion, fairness and progress we claim to admire.

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