Last weekend, anti-abortion activists, mostly men, landed in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, in Montreal, carrying signs showing bloody fetuses to frighten the adults and children who strolled along Saint-Denis and Saint-Denis streets. Mont Royal.

However, their cause has no roots in Quebec. In fact, 89% of Quebecers are in favor of abortion. Quebec opinion ranks first, above Ontario. In English Canada, the percentage rate drops unsurprisingly in the western provinces where fundamentalist Christians are found. The same people who are breaking up the Conservative Party of Canada.

Let's look at the numbers released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, which is responsible for compiling abortion statistics. We discover that the number of abortions has been in continuous decline for fifteen years. In 2007, there were approximately 99,000 abortions performed in Canada, while in 2020 there are only 74,000.

In Quebec in 2007, the number of abortions was 27,697 and in Ontario 32,331. In 2020, Quebec recorded 21,815 abortions compared to 21,428 in Ontario.

Sex education

This proves that the legalization of abortion in Canada in 1988 does not inevitably lead to an increase in the number of abortions. Because sex education plays a decisive role, just as gender equality allows women to gradually emerge from the status of victim.

In the United States, by overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court proved to be illegitimate. With a majority of justices appointed only because they were going to vote in line with the more radical and right-wing Republicans, the Court discredited itself in the eyes of most Western governments.

In fact, ex-President Trump, who believes neither in God nor in morals, but who has declared judgment to be "God's will", is the architect of this American decadence. He who attempted a coup on January 6, 2021 could plunge his country into a civil war.

Contradiction

Let's not forget that 61% of Americans are in favor of legalizing abortion. However, the Supreme Court, by revoking Roe against Wade, gave states the right to legislate as they saw fit, but decided otherwise by invalidating a New York law regulating the carrying of weapons.

This is how powerful lobbies are going to give additional ammunition, so to speak, to this minority of Americans (about 35%) who hate democracy and dream of giving America back a greatness that in their minds racists and fascists reached its peak with segregationist laws and the hunt for Indians in the Wild West.

We are expecting the Pope's visit to Canada in July. He would come to apologize to the indigenous children who, torn from their parents, were subjected to deculturation and were physically and sexually abused in Canadian boarding schools run by Catholic clerics. In Quebec, where 89% of people are in favor of abortion, will he try to convince Quebeckers of the immorality of abortion? And will he apologize for all the Quebec children mistreated and sexually abused by clerics in Quebec schools at the time of triumphant Catholicism?