Francis Chartrand for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles

The column I wrote on Henry Morgentaler, Monday, has earned a tsunami of reactions - some fairly virulent, thank you.

Several readers have told me that, contrary to what I said, the theory of Dr. Morgentaler (namely that the legalization of abortion reduces crime rates) is nothing ridiculous.

A WAR OF FIGURES

I do not want to enter a war of figures rising 25 feet over the head of everyone, but if the question you want, do searches, you will see: several renowned economists and statisticians RÉFUTENT these studies. For every study saying that there is a link between abortion and crime rates, there is a study that proves the contrary.

Some statisticians even claim that, contrary to what was written Levitt, the crime rate has increased since the legalization of abortion!

Should we conclude that abortion INCREASES the crime rate? "Of course not" meet the pro-choice. "It does absolutely nothing to say ..." It's bizarre, is not it?

When the figures support our position, the figures are right. But when the numbers run counter to our position, the figures are wrong and studies are worth nothing.

AN PRETENTIUS AFFIRMATION

You know Malcolm Gladwell? He wrote the bestseller The Tipping Point and Blink.

In his blog, Gladwell refutes the theory of Levitt saying that the drop in crime observable across West can be explained by several factors: an increase in the number of police in the streets, increasing the overall standard of living of citizens , The change of values, adopting a more severe sentence, and so on.

Confirming, as did Henry Morgentaler, that abortion reduces crime rates does not stand two seconds.

Besides, everyone knows we can say anything to the figures. Do you know that there are studies saying that the legalization of abortion has reduced the number of smokers?

I am sure we could establish a link between the legalization of abortion and the increase in cases of death by cholesterol.

LET'S STERILYSE THE POOR!

Despite what some readers wrote me, I persist and sign: I think the statement of Dr. Morgentaler extremely doubtful.

In the USA, a study by the National Center for Health Statistics says that these are mostly the poor who are aborted. Is this because there is LESS than poor that crime decline?

In this case, stérilisons the poor, there will be more problem!

When a study establishing a link between the increase in the number of homosexuals in a city and the increase of cases of STDs? Or between the increase in the number of blacks and the growing crime rate?

Commentators on the American far right have délectés the study of Steven Levitt. For them, this is proof by A + B that there are fewer blacks and poor in a society, the more crime declines.

For me, these studies are also doubtful and as dangerous as those establishing a link between race and intelligence quotient.

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# posted by Francis Chartrand @ 10:29 AM 0 Comments

The surrender of the Order of Canada to Dr. Henry Morgentaler is Much ink and saliva past few days. For some, this man is a hero. For others, this man is a real monster.

No half-measure, this is all one or the other. I am not one of the people who evilise Henry Morgentaler. But I must tell you one thing.

I think some of his assertions extremely doubtful.

"MY BIGGEST SUCCESS"

A few years ago, I interviewed Henry Morgentaler for television. He released a phrase he repeated several times throughout his career: that the greatest achievement of his professional life was to participate in lowering the crime rate in Canada.

Children who are not wanted are not loved and tend to become offenders, he said. By preventing their birth, he made service to society.

I remember being left speechless when the doctor started me this sentence in his clinic Boulevard Saint-Joseph in Montreal. The stupidity of this statement I had sawed the two legs.

As if ALL children loved badly go wrong! As if ALL children want to become good citizens!

As if beaten children NECESSARILY became executioners, and loved children, saints! What is this bullshit?

If I writing a list of the biggest nonsense ever uttered by Canadian personalities, this sentence of Henry Morgentaler would be part of my Top three.

Doctor NOSTRADAMUS

What the doctor claims to be proud to have helped protect the lives of women participating in legalizing abortion is one thing. But to lower the crime rate?

How can a person have the pretension to predict the fate of a person WHICH ARE NOT BORN?

Henry Morgentaler has a special power? Doe's he guess the future? Is he the reincarnation of Nostradamus?

He knows what foetus turn well, and what foetus turn evil?

He could protect us from Hitler and Stalin if he had practised abortions at the time, right? Really, I'm disturbed ...

You can imagine what people would say if Stephen Harper announced he was going to kill all unwanted fetus in order to fight against crime?

We would denounce that as eugenics! On dirait que c'est une politique d'extrême droite ! It seems like a policy of far-right!

But when is the "good doctor" Morgentaler which launches such rudeness, everybody is in "pâmoison" ...

THE COMPLEX OF GOD

I do not make friends, but if only for having pronounced the sentence ignoble (not once, not twice but many times over his career), I believe that Henry Morgentaler deserves not the Order of Canada.

Whatever the August doctor say, the fact that a child is a wanted or not is absolutely no guarantee that he will do in the future.

We know that many doctors are taking to God, but there is a limit evil ...

Batman, Superman and Spiderman send criminals to prison. Henry Morgentaler, however, goes further and addresses the very sources of crime. This is not a medal that we should give it.

But a cape and a mask.

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