Henry Morgentaler - Greatness should be made of sterner stuff...

Demystifying Henry Morgentaler

By Don DeMarco, Ph. D.

Henry Morgentaler (1923-2013)

Henry Morgentaler passed from the world at age ninety. He was Canada’s leading abortionist, in the early years performing them illegally.

One should be uncomfortable with referring to him as “Doctor,” as Canadian law professor Ian Hunter has said, it seems inappropriate to refer to a man as “‘Doctor’ whose grisly practice made a daily mockery of the Hippocratic Oath.”

Indeed, Canada’s 1988 Supreme Court decision on abortion, R. v. Morgentaler, was a monumental decision that gave Canada the dubious distinction of being the only democracy in the world that would have no law whatsoever protecting the life of the child in the womb at any time during a pregnancy. “Finally,” Morgentaler said in response to the Court’s decision, “we have freedom of reproduction in this country.”

Citing a number of secular feminists, newspapers hailed Morgentaler as a “great” man, principally for giving women “reproductive freedom.” Usually, a man is said to be “great” for some particularly identifiable reason.

Conversely, however, Henry Morgentaler’s claim to fame, “reproductive freedom,” is purely an ideological construction. Abortion often deprives a woman of the freedom to have a child later in her life when she desires one. Some women die as a result of induced abortion. All too frequently, women come to regret their abortions, suffering debilitating mental health problems.

Various women’s groups have organized under such revealing banners as “Victims of Choice,” “Women Exploited by Abortion,” and “Silent No More.” What Morgentaler accomplished was to destroy the lives of untold children in utero and damage the bodies and the psyches of untold victims of abortion. Greatness should be made of sterner stuff.

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