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New Brunswick Right to Life
P.O. Box 113, Station A, Fredericton, NB E3B 4Y2
Tel. (506) 459-8990 or Toll-free 1-888-796-9600.  Fax (506) 454-8093.
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NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release                                                                           June 19, 2006 

     Abortions to Start at Georges Dumont Hospital

Abortions are set to begin at the Dr. Georges Dumont Hospital in Moncton as of July 1, according to the New Brunswick Right to Life Association. “What had been a rumour has now been confirmed,” said executive director Peter Ryan. 

Last month provincial health minister Brad Green said he had found a doctor at two different hospitals to provide abortions after the end of June. That’s when the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton will cease performing the procedure. 400 of the 404 hospital abortions last year in the province were carried out at the Chalmers.  

“This news is like a bombshell for the Acadian people, with their strongly religious heritage,” said Ryan. “The hospital’s original name was Hotel Dieu - House of God. If the hospital doesn’t want to be called ‘house of death’ now, they’d better change course.” 

The Acadian birthrate is already very low, Ryan noted. “The last thing they need is to suppress more births. Abortion is genocidal for the Acadian people.” 

The Association deplores the way the provincial health ministry has engineered new abortion services at two hospitals. “Our health care system is supposed to  be based on the tradition that has come down from Hippocrates,  which says medicine is about saving lives not destroying them,” stated Ryan. “Right now, that ethical anchor is sorely lacking. ”

     

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Contact:          Peter Ryan (506) 459-8990 or 1-888-796-9600

See also “Health Minister Failing to Respect Law,” May 26/06 news release ; “Reaction to News that Two Hospitals Will Do Abortions, May 25/06 news release. Both available on our website.