REAL WOMEN OF CANADA reaffirms that the family is society’s most important unit: we value equally every family member, born or unborn.  Reproductive choice is exercised prior to conception, because conception and birth are consequences of choice; not choices in themselves.  Anyone who is not certain that there is a second human being growing within the pregnant woman should clearly give that human life the benefit of the doubt.

      It is said repeatedly by feminists that society over the years has oppressed women and that feminism is the answer to overturning this oppression.  How, then, can the genuine feminist justify, in turn, aborting her unborn son or daughter, the most deadly kind of oppression?

      In a democracy, there is the acceptance and practice of the principle of equality of rights, opportunity and treatment for all.  The unborn child must be included because we cannot arbitrarily take away the rights of one group of human beings without giving assent to the withdrawal of rights from other categories of human beings.  Since we are pro-family, we cannot discriminate by allowing an attack on one member of the human family such as the unborn child.  Doing so has opened the door to attacks on other vulnerable members of the family, such as the aged, and the mentally and physically disabled.