ExtremeWisdom

Canada Reverses Course - Eager to Return to Western Civilization

With the EU (pronounced Eeeuuuwwww!) rejecting the Constitution from Bureaucratic Hell, and Germany on the brink of electing a politician eager to take Germany back from the brink (of economic destruction), is it that far out of the box to think that Canada might re-think their dysfuncitonal love affair with "single payer" health care?

I guess not.

Supreme Court ruling opens door to private health care, say experts

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that the Quebec ban on private insurance violates Quebec's charter of rights.

The Canadian Medical Association called it a "historic" ruling that could "fundamentally change the health-care system in Canada as we now know it."

In Quebec City, interim Parti Quebecois Leader Louise Harel said Quebec's public health system is threatened and she urged Premier Jean Charest to defend it.

But Prime Minister Paul Martin downplayed such concerns.

....

But many weren't buying it.

"This is the end of medicare as we know it," said John Williamson of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

"This is a breach in government monopoly health care in this country.

"It's going to open up litigation across the country in the other nine provinces as taxpayers there press for the same right which is the right to seek and buy insurance to cover private health care."

___

Imagine!!  The right to buy private health care.  Insanity!! Do they know no bounds?!

Like this wouldn't be obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense

Revealed: how an abortion puts the next baby at risk (Michael Day, 15/05/2005, Daily Telegraph)

Having an abortion almost doubles a woman's risk of giving birth dangerously early in a later pregnancy, according to research that will provoke fresh debate over the most controversial of all medical procedures.

A French study of 2,837 births - the first to investigate the link between terminations and extremely premature births - found that mothers who had previously had an abortion were 1.7 times more likely to give birth to a baby at less than 28 weeks' gestation. Many babies born this early die soon after birth, and a large number who survive suffer serious disability.

The research leader, Dr Caroline Moreau, an epidemiologist at the Hôpital de Bicêtre in Paris, said the results of the study, which appear in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, provided conclusive evidence of a link between induced abortion and subsequent pre-term births. [...]

Her study compared the medical histories of 2,219 women with babies born at less than 34 weeks with another 618 who had given birth at full term. Overall, women who had had an abortion were 40 per cent more likely to have a very pre-term delivery (less than 33 weeks) than those without such a history. The risk of an extremely premature baby - one born at less than 28 weeks - was raised even more sharply, by 70 per cent. Abortion appeared to increase the risk of most major causes of premature birth, including premature rupture of membranes, incorrect position of the foetus on the placenta and spontaneous early labour. The only common cause of premature birth not linked to abortion was high blood pressure.

Mr Peter Bowen-Simpkins, a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and a consultant obstetrician at the Sancta Maria Hospital in Swansea, said the study revealed that abortion might not be as safe as previously supposed. "This study shows that surgical termination of pregnancies may have late complications and may not be without risk," he said.