Proof that surviving a Nazi slaughterhouse won't automatically make you a good person...

...or, Shoah survivor kills kids for cash.


The Morgentaler Effect

This column has posited what we call the Roe effect--namely, that the result of the nexus between the practice of abortion and the politics of abortion in America is to make the electorate more Republican over time. Now there's a Canadian corollary, called the Morgentaler effect.

Henry Morgentaler, as the Canadian Broadcast Corp. explains, is a Canadian aborter who "went through four jury trials and spent 10 months in jail for providing abortions" before the Canadian Supreme Court struck down the already sparsely populated country's abortion laws in 1988. Receiving an honorary degree yesterday, he explained his theory:

"By fighting for reproductive freedom, and making it possible, I have made a contribution to a safer and more caring society where people have a greater opportunity to realize their full potential," he said, shortly after receiving his honorary doctor of law degree from the University of Western Ontario in London.

"Well-loved children grow into adults who do not build concentration camps, do not rape and do not murder," said Morgentaler, 82, who himself survived a Nazi death camp.

If you've been wondering why Canada has relatively few concentration camps, now you know.

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