It's true--expect Morgentaler announcement at noon

I have confirmed that the rumours are true: Dr. Henry Morgentaler is getting an Order of Canada and the news will be released at noon today.

Someone blind copied me on her letter to the Prime Minister concerning awarding Canada's highest honor to Dr. Henry Morgentaler.

She wrote:

Dear Prime Minister Harper,

It is not often that I feel it is my civic duty to write to you, but this is such a time.

I am writing to protest the conferring of an OC on Dr Henry Morgentaler.

It is inappropriate to sully the Order by what amounts to approval of his ghastly career- the aborting of babies. His career has consisted of a multitude of crimes against humanity. My child is one of his victims; I have had to come to terms with my terrible decision to go to his Montreal office in 1969. That event will haunt me for the rest of my days. I know that what I did was very wrong... I wonder how different my life would be today if I hadn't been able to pay this man 200$ to perform a heinous act against life. Who knows, perhaps I would now have the daughter I've never had (I have 4 sons); reading the literature connecting abortions and breast cancer has shown me that perhaps I would not have had breast cancer in 1992; and that child would be a comfort to me now.

Surely the Order should include only Canadians of high moral tone. Dr Morgentaler has made it possible for thousands of women to make immoral choices, to carry out an act of murder, to make a choice with life-long negative ramifications.

I beg you to use moral suasion to stop this travesty.

Sincerely,

(Name withheld by request)

This woman is one of thousands who regrets her abortion and who also suffered from breast cancer, possibly as a result.

I hear the government is bracing itself for a negative reaction. No kidding. I bet thousands of similar letters and emails are already going out.