“Clearly, making contraception free across the country will save a lot of money for women,” Singh said at a Feb. 16 press conference in Coquitlam, B.C., in defence of the plan. “It will make their lives easier, and it will cut down on costs in our healthcare system,” he continued, adding: “Right now, the NDP is fighting to make this happen across the country.”
Of course, there is no such thing as “free” contraception. It will be funded by taxpayers—your money. Behind the NDP push for free contraception is the false notion of “reproductive health and rights.” In today’s Orwellian doublespeak of the West, the phrase “reproductive health and rights” has come to mean 1) the “right” of a woman to suppress her fertility and poison her body so as to make it hostile to producing offspring, and 2) the “right” for her to exterminate a newly conceived life if it manages to come into existence despite her efforts to prevent it from happening.
In a sane world, “reproductive health and rights” should have to do with the right to reproduce, that is, the right to produce offspring, to procreate, to have children in as healthy a way as possible. How has this phrase come to mean the “right” to block the creation of new life and the “right” to kill this new life if he or she is “unwanted”?
This phrase has become a euphemism for a culture linked to sexual hedonism, the utilitarian use of persons, and the extermination of the smallest members of the human family when their arrival is inconvenient.
The NDP’s push for free contraception could not have come at a worse time.
If Canada does not alter course, it can be expected that the population will be halved in 60 years and halved again by 2137. Immigration is acting as a temporary, bandage solution, but the places where immigrants are coming from are also facing their own population collapses.
Jagmeet Singh is simply mistaken in claiming that providing free contraception will cut down on costs in our health-care system. The first and most obvious reason he is wrong is that preventing the conception of Canadian children prevents the country’s future tax base from coming into existence, the base upon which the health-care system entirely depends. Without sufficient taxpayers, the health-care system collapses. Canada desperately needs more children to secure its future as “the true north strong and free,” as our national anthem states. Canada has much good in it and should not be permitted to contracept itself out of existence.
Furthermore, Singh is wrong because contraception is harmful, putting a woman at war with her biology. Hormonal contraception, which contains synthetic versions of female hormones, is known to be carcinogenic, that is, cancer causing.
“To put it bluntly,” she wrote after laying out what the medical literature states about contraception, “for decades, we have been conducting a medical experiment on young women and we are barely even measuring the results. And for what? It’s about time we took our bodies back.”
The impact of Orbán’s pro-family policies has been impressive. Since 2010, the number of marriages in Hungary almost doubled. Interestingly, the number of abortions was almost halved. The policies immediately bore fruit with the fertility rate substantially rising each year. It has now reached 1.6 and shows no sign of stopping.
The time is now for bold and forward-thinking policies that invest in this country’s future by investing in families and in children. Hungary invests 5 percent of its GDP annually on family support, removing financial obstacles hindering young couples from starting a family. It’s time for Canada to follow in Hungary’s footsteps.
Children are a gift from God and our nation’s greatest treasure. Canadian families need to be encouraged to have more of them—before it’s too late.
