Helping prostitutes in Jesus' name

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pp. 12-15.                                3181 Helping prostitutes in Jesus' name Prostitutes say they've chosen their career. Unconvinced Christians are lobbying for laws that will restrict this "choice." People who work with prostitutes have to face a difficult truth: most prostitutes aren't interested in getting out until they've done irreparable damage to themselves. Veteran observers agree that young prostitutes (under age 18) who talk positively about their "choice" are uninformed and ignore or deny the life trajectory of all the others before them who have suffered and regretted such choices.   In virtually every case, observers say, prostitution leads to harm, various forms of enslavement or early death.    Young prostitutes often believe they have made the best choice. "People are making a mistake when they think of prostitutes as having chosen a career," says Ken Fast who has worked with prostitutes for 13 years and is director of Alternatives in Christian Ministry. A program in Northside Community Church in Brampton Ont., Alternatives involves volunteers from many denominations.    "It's not a choice like becoming a doctor or a farmer. People who choose prostitution usually see few other choices available to them -- maybe working in a nightclub or becoming a stripper; that's it."    Most street prostitutes say they ran away from an abusive home and turned to prostitution voluntarily at around age 14. Young prostitutes often believe they can avoid becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol. If they become involved in organized crime, they somehow think they won't get caught.    Prostitution is made to appear glamorous by pimps and clients alike, a way for teens to thumb their noses at authority and to achieve easy financial independence. Pimps can lure runaway girls because they are desperate for money, but the promise of affection is also a lure and is especially successful with girls who are overweight and unpopular, says Ross MacInnes of Calgary, a former vice cop who now heads a non-profit organization to reach out to juvenile prostitutes.    Christian teens are not immune to the lure of prostitution, adds Cliff Heggs, director of about 20 volunteers at Crossfire Ministries in Vancouver. Heggs says Crossfire is "working with parents of eight girls from somewhat Christian homes. Some of these girls have been found and directed back to their parents and some are still out there somewhere."   Once hooked with gifts and then manipulated into prostitution, it often takes years before a girl will admit to herself that the pimp is lying about loving her.     "The girls don't usually differentiate between a pimp and a boyfriend. The pimp is seen more as a guy who loves her and maybe even says he'll marry her. She's the breadwinner for the two of them by renting her body parts," says Fast.    Teens going into prostitution seek help, love, community and answers to personal problems. Young prostitutes often believe they have made the best possible choice and persist in thinking they can continue in prostitution yet somehow escape the violence, disease and other ruinous problems it brings, even after they have been repeatedly assaulted or forced to do things against their will. Such thinking makes Christian outreach and legal restrictions difficult. Last year, for example, police evicted a number of teens from an abandoned building on Toronto's Carlton Street. The teens refused offers of placement in youth shelters because they said the shelters "have too many rules." Instead, the teens demanded they be allowed to live in another building.     "I'm going for my third meeting with a 14-year-old nicknamed 'Pillow' to talk about leaving the street," says Fast. "I shocked her when I predicted that she wouldn't want to leave for maybe five years. 'You're right,' she told me. 'I can't see myself living anywhere where there are rules.'"    In response to such attitudes, some legislators -- supported by Christians -- are attempting to change Canada's prostitution laws to make such "career choices" more difficult, especially for young teens. Two prostitutes look for clients on St. Catherine St. in Montreal. Christian teens are not immune from prostitution, say observers. Photo © P. Andrews/Publiphoto Prostitution laws Paying for sex has never been illegal in Canada; however both a customer and a prostitute may be charged for "communicating in public for the purposes of prostitution," a summary conviction offence which usually results in a 10-day jail sentence and $125 fine in Ontario (twice that in Alberta). The maximum fine is $2,000 or six months in jail. A customer hiring a prostitute who is younger than 18 faces a maximum five year sentence under a rarely used federal law. Other laws ban brothels and "procuring," which involves enabling a financial transaction in exchange for sex. Living from the avails of a prostitute can bring a maximum 10-year sentence under the Criminal Code. If the prostitute is younger than 18, the maximum is 14 years. There is no specified minimum sentence.     The laws were recently tightened slightly with the passing of Bill C-27, which amended the Criminal Code in a variety of areas, including creating a minimum five-year sentence for "aggravated procuring," that is, using threats or violence to pimp a prostitute 17 or younger. The bill also amended the crime of hiring an under-age prostitute, to allow prosecution whenever there is evidence that the client believed the prostitute was under 18, regardless of the prostitute's real age. C-27 also allows minors to testify from behind a screen, through closed circuit television or via videotape against accused pimps or "johns."   Heather Forsyth Provincially, Alberta has announced plans to change its Child Welfare Act (perhaps as soon as this fall) to identify prostitutes under the age of 18 as victims of child sexual abuse and their clients as abusers. Convictions would involve a mandatory jail sentence.     The province also plans to draft an act entitled Children Involved in Prostitution outlining an array of services the government is responsible to provide to under-age prostitutes. Those would include increased social, educational and health programs, including safe houses and locked assessment/treatment facilities "to assist youth [under 18] who are not willing to leave prostitution but who are a danger to themselves or others."      The Alberta changes stem from the Forsyth report, released in February 1997. The report calls on Ottawa to label prostitutes under 18 as children; to extend the maximum sentence for any prostitution offence to 14 years rather than 10; to require some jail time for all prostitution-related offences (except communicating); and to release to the media the names of all convicted customers of under-age prostitutes.     The report also calls for the establishment of a national computer system tracking juvenile prostitutes as they are moved across the country. "The report is having a huge effect, much more than I expected," says Heather Forsyth, Progressive Conservative MLA for Calgary-Fish Creek, who led the development of the report. "We're receiving calls from around the country." Two months after the release of the report "girls from Calgary and Edmonton were already moving to Vancouver," she said.     The proposed changes at both provincial and federal levels have received mixed reviews.     "Prostitution is clearly a form of child abuse," says Brenda McIntire, 42, who was involved in prostitution for 13 years and supports proposals to toughen legislation.     "I don't think a young teen is capable of giving 'informed consent' to prostitution. It's made to look for them that they're in control, that they have complete freedom. But there are a lot of things that push them and keep them there. They are promised acceptance, trust, family -- all the things that are missing in their lives," says McIntire.     Two years ago McIntire became a Christian. Today she is a counselor to street prostitutes with Alternatives in Christian Ministry in Brampton, Ont. She also helped establish a re-education program in Toronto that provides alternatives to jail time for clients and prostitutes facing court charges.     Elsewhere, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has voiced its support of Bill C-27. In a May 1996 brief on prostitution, the EFC supported the view that hiring a prostitute under the age of 18 is child abuse, and called for more severe penalties against clients and pimps, particularly of juvenile prostitutes. The brief called for preventative education about the effects of prostitution, curbs on the availability of pornography and more outreach services to prostitutes. The brief also warned against the creation of red-light districts, city-regulated zones dedicated to the sex trade.     Others think the problem of juvenile prostitution is overrated and the proposed solutions merely superficial band-aids that allow politicians to make mileage from an issue.     "If kids under 16 are turning tricks for money it could be because they can't legally work at any job," argues Andrew Sorfleet of the Sex Workers Alliance of Vancouver. "If the laws actually succeed in keeping street kids from turning tricks, then what will the kids buy their Big Meals with? Squeegees? Panhandling? Busking?"     Sorfleet asserts that protecting juveniles in prostitution should take the same approach as protecting them in any other industry.  "Judge the danger and hazards and needs for training as you would for any other occupation," he says.   "[Kids] have died on pipelines, and in mines, and in logging and probably even in fishing. This is a workplace health and safety issue. Jobs, more money, less poverty and less desperation would help deal with street kids needing to do survival sex."    "I would never suggest that we advocate 14-year-olds working in the trade," he adds. "But I know a lot of [older prostitutes] who in their hearts if they found a young 15-year-old working the street might try to get them into circumstances where they could work inside or be much safer rather than put them on a bus home to their parents." Ongoing support needed Statistics show that very few people enter prostitution after age 20. The Canadian government's Badgley Committee in 1984 found that 96 percent of the prostitutes interviewed had entered the "trade" before age 18, and that more than 93 percent had run away. Today, observers suggest, most prostitutes start at age 14 or earlier and end up burnt out by their mid-20s, so pimps are always looking for newcomers. Pimps often shuffle young prostitutes around to different cities, including back and forth across the United States border, to keep them vulnerable, to keep up with demand and to avoid enforcement crackdowns. Though juvenile prostitution is a tragedy that is attracting attention from legislators as a result of public outcries, Fast finds the selective attention somewhat frustrating.     Tragic stories about 13-year-old girls elicit easy pity and outrage. But, he asks, what about those same girls after they have turned tricks for eight years and developed a drug habit? Public compassion for adult prostitutes is replaced by disgust and the view that "they made their choice, now they get what they deserve," says Fast.     He urges Christians to be consistent in their compassion. Furthermore, he adds, the prostitutes people feel the most sympathy for -- the younger ones -- will usually spurn offers of help.     "Unless I reach a girl during her first week on the street," Fast says, "it's likely she won't be interested again in leaving the street for another four to eight years." It's the ones over 25, who have suffered enough to begin reflecting on their situation and their future, who are receptive to assistance, he says. Fast knows of several prostitutes who went back to school as a way out of prostitution. "But they still had to turn tricks on the weekend to make it." As a result, Alternatives encourages Christians to donate bursary money for prostitutes.     Methods used by Christian ministries to help prostitutes are diverse. Servants Anonymous in Calgary and Morningstar in Regina run transition houses and group homes. Many offer job training and life skills programs.     "Usually they quit the residential or skills programs once or several times," explains Ivy M., a volunteer house mother with Servants. "If they quit, they know they aren't allowed back for three months. But after that the door is always open, and most do come back."     Servants has four houses, including an emergency house that allows first-timers to stay up to 30 days, a house for women who are pregnant or have children, and second stage housing where graduates of the program can live independently for three to five years while they build new lives. Servants cares for 20 young women at a time through the volunteer efforts of 30 people. The organization also operates a secretarial company and a cafeteria where women receive government subsidized job training while bringing in necessary revenue for the non-profit organization.     Most prostitute ministries, including Crossfire in Vancouver and Le Roc in Montreal, hold parties on birthdays, Christmas and other days, at which they give flowers and gifts including Christian literature.      "The parties are great. They really show love to an individual who probably receives little anywhere else," says Christine Myatt Paré, who came from Australia seven years ago to reach out to female prostitutes in Montreal with Le Roc (formerly the Quebec chapter of Operation Mobilization). She recently took a year-long sabbatical from her work, and now visits the streets once a week.     "We often give them some of the materials produced by Crossfire, testimonies of girls who have quit the street, among other presents." That giving gifts and attention is the same method used by pimps to trap girls in the first place is not lost on many Christian workers.     "Christian ministry is the opposite of making them dependent on you," argues John Berton, a 30-year veteran who divides his work between the streets of Los Angeles and a group of transition homes in New York state. "It's helping them build self-esteem and self-respect, helping them see themselves through the lens of the Christian gospel."    Berton, whose work is described in the book One Lady at a Time, says simple actions like putting a prostitute's name on a welcome sign or trusting her enough to be the receptionist can do wonders. "I tell them I have a special translation of the Bible that says, 'God thinks you're hot stuff, baby,'" says Berton.    "We never force anything," adds Brenda McIntire. Talking, gifts, parties -- all can be rejected and often are. "[Prostitutes] know the Christians are there. Some open up, but many refuse to be seen talking with you."    "Many times they'll smile and even say 'God bless you' just to get rid of a Christian who might linger and scare away tricks," says Berton. Relationship building Most people who work with prostitutes agree that any program, from housing to a drop-in centre to throwing parties, is mainly a way to spend time together and build relationships. "Effectiveness is not so much a matter of programs as building long-term relationships of trust," says Fast.     With meetings that last usually less than an hour, it takes many months to build a relationship. It may take years before a prostitute will reveal her real name and address.    That length of time requires a commitment that makes new ministry workers hard to find. Alternatives takes a full year to train its volunteers and does not accept seminary interns. In addition, some ministries do not accept street volunteers who are single males, who are married less than 10 years, or who do not have the full support and cooperation of a spouse.     Ministries to prostitutes continue to be frustrated by other well-meaning Christian groups who occasionally visit an inner-city area to pass out tracts.     "Sometimes you see a bunch of them go up to a prostitute and talk with her. They don't realize that her pimp is down the street sitting in a car and fuming mad, and that he could beat her up later if she wastes potential money-earning time talking with them," says Fast.       Building a Christian relationship may require persistent overtures, but it also requires mutual interest. Most ministries spend a lot of time in the inner-city at night, on the streets or in the coffee shops, making those overtures and making themselves available to any who want to talk.      Generally, outreach takes a long time to bear fruit, if ever says Myatt Paré. "I'm learning you have to put aside your hopes and expectations for them and just be out there faithfully," she says. Myatt Paré has found that prostitutes with pimps are less needy and less likely to be addicted to drugs, whereas the junkies who are out trying to turn tricks day or night have so many basic physical needs that verbally sharing the Christian gospel becomes secondary.   Claude Borgognon   Claude Borgognon works with male prostitutes on the streets of Montreal for Le Roc and Jeunesse en Mission (Youth with a Mission). Male teens on the street turn to homosexual prostitution for money, he says. In male prostitution, the clients are less likely to be violent (female prostitutes see an average of one violent trick per month) and are more interested in affection, he explains. However, the prostitutes face the likelihood of becoming HIV positive on average about four years after starting.     Borgognon has witnessed a number of male teens move from simply engaging in homosexual prostitution for money, while still considering themselves heterosexual, to eventually considering themselves bisexuals or homosexuals.   As his relationships develop, Borgognon becomes more confrontational with the prostitutes to try to get them to examine and think about their lives. The ones of age 18 to 20 appreciate honest questioning, he says. They're unhappy and ready to talk. But as with female prostitutes, it's usually not until age 27 or 28 that there is any success in helping them leave prostitution. Hurdles to ministry Though most large Canadian cities have one or more Christian ministries that focus on helping prostitutes, workers stress that resources for prostitutes are still very limited.     Christians are "not doing well" overall at reaching juvenile prostitutes, says Glen Povey in Regina. He is pastor of a church that runs Morningstar ministries, a variety of programs to the inner-city poor. Those include a bus with a coffee shop inside called Love Lives Here, an outreach to children from problem homes, a house for HIV-positive people called Amon House, a parochial day school, and a chapter of Prison Fellowship.     His church's multi-pronged approach is based on the recognition that "prostitution is one of a cluster of problems associated with poverty," he says. The exploitative aspect of prostitution is very clear in Regina, he says, as many of the prostitutes he deals with are clearly "mentally slow or weak" and come from a "clearly oppressed" group of poor, inner-city native peoples.     Povey, a teacher who has worked on native reserves, says life in the inner-city changes natives. The native people he has known on reserves are generally strong and independent compared to those who move to the inner-city, he says.      Many of the limited resources available to them depend on charity, and funding for Christian ministries to prostitutes is scarce, says Povey. His group had to shut down one of its transition homes last year due to lack of finances. His ministry, like most, cannot afford to pay its workers and operates almost entirely with volunteers.      Another hurdle ministries face is the "not in my backyard" syndrome when they try to set up transition houses. Fast and his family, which includes teen girls, get around that problem by taking prostitutes into their own home for periods of time.      "Too often we Christians think of our homes as our castles and we have defences for keeping strangers out." Fast is not suggesting Christians take in a drug addict who could be destructive, but perhaps people who could change their lives if they had the opportunity to live with a Christian family for a while. For example, he recently invited a young man from Halifax to live with his family.    The man had moved to Toronto looking for a job and then ran out of money and ended up on the street.     Christians can offer respect and the gift of self-esteem, says Fast. They should not condone lifestyles condemned in the Bible, but they should accept people and value them as precious human beings made in God's image. For Alternatives and some other conservative Christian agencies, not condoning destructive lifestyles means not giving out condoms or sterilized needles, as some other established Christian agencies now do. Christians need to make clear public pronouncements about what the Bible says, adds Povey. Canadian law considers prostitution itself a "legal private act between consenting adults." The Bible clearly states that prostitution is "wrong, sinful and wicked," says Povey.     "Any outreach we do is in the context of spreading the truth about salvation in Jesus," concludes Povey. "But our words must be accompanied by deeds if we are to show we truly care."    Bill Fledderus is new/features writer for Faith Today. His concern for runaways was heightened when he worked the night shift at the Seafarers Centre in Montreal in 1995-6.

Sex-based abortions

Rise in sex-based abortions prompts doctors to call for end to ultrasounds that only determine gender of fetus

Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News | February 19, 2014 | Last Updated: Feb 19 7:41 PM ET
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Fotolia Commercial, for-profit clinics are offering special packages that include three- and four-dimensional ultrasound pictures and videos of babies in the womb, cellphone ringtones of a baby’s fetal heartbeat and live broadcasting to family and friends.

Canada’s pregnancy specialists and the nation’s radiologists are calling for a halt on using ultrasound for the sole purpose of determining the sex of an unborn fetus.

In a new joint policy statement, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada and the Canadian Association of Radiologists also say it could be considered unethical for private, commercial clinics to offer “entertainment” ultrasounds purely for the purpose of creating “keepsake” videos for expectant parents.

The position statement comes amid mounting concerns that in Canada, people are using ultrasound to determine the sex of a fetus early in pregnancy and to have it aborted if it is a girl.

The Harper government condemned gender-selection abortions at the party’s convention in November, while Canada’s leading medical journal has urged medical licensing bodies across the country to rule that doctors should not reveal the sex of the fetus to any woman before about 30 weeks of pregnancy “when an unquestioned abortion is all but impossible.”

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The Canadian Medical Association Journal, in an editorial published in 2012, said research in Canada has found the strongest evidence of sex selection among people from India, China, Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines. “What this means is that many couples who have two daughters and no son selectively get rid of female fetuses until they can ensure that their third-born child is a boy.”

In Canada, abortions are rarely performed after 24 weeks of pregnancy.

“Fetal ultrasound is a valuable tool in modern obstetrical care,” the position statement reads. The scans use sound waves to monitor a baby’s growth and development in the womb.

But the widespread availability of ultrasounds for purchase “has led to a proliferation of ‘entertainment’ ultrasound units throughout Canada,” and there have been media reports of private clinics offering sex determination in the first trimester of pregnancy.

FotoliaA scan of an ultrasound image of a 20 week old fetus.

While no definitive proof exists that the high frequency, low energy sound waves emitted by ultrasounds can cause fetal abnormalities, recent studies in animals have reported subtle effects on the development of the fetal brain, the authors write.

Commercial, for-profit clinics are offering special packages that include three- and four-dimensional ultrasound pictures and videos of babies in the womb, cellphone ringtones of a baby’s fetal heartbeat and live broadcasting to family and friends.

The concern is that the machines may be used for as long as an hour to get a video of the fetus. The fetus may be exposed to unnecessarily high energy levels for prolonged periods, and those operating the machines may be poorly trained to recognize abnormalities, according to the position statement.

That could lead to “false reassurance to the patient that everything is ‘normal.’ ”

“The fetus should not be exposed to ultrasound for commercial and entertainment purposes, and it could be considered unethical to perform these scans,” the new and updated joint policy statement from the obstetricians and radiologists reads.

The technology should also never be used “for the sole purpose of determining fetal gender without a medical indication for that scan,” the groups say.

Alla Boulavkina, a registered diagnostic medical sonographer and owner of Tri-Cities 3D Sono Image in Vancouver, which offers non-medical fetal ultrasounds,  said the scans improve bonding between parents and babies, and that she limits exposure times. “I know how to do it correctly.”

Boulavkina offers gender determination, starting at 20 weeks’ gestation only. Demand for the service, she said, is growing.

“Everybody wants to know, ‘boy or girl?’ Not just to start shopping … it takes time to be mentally ready for the baby,” she said.

“It’s very important to know. It helps people to prepare and be happy. Because sometimes daddy wanted a boy, and then he sees girl, and he’s not happy, and it’s no good for the family. In this case, it gives time to slowly be prepared.”

However, “We strictly never, ever tell” before 20 weeks into the pregnancy, she said.

Abortion services are available in B.C. up to 20 weeks’ gestation.

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Abortion Pill research papers report that more recent than the partial birth abortion issue and even more likely to draw distinct political and moral platforms is the controversy surrounding the abortion pill, RU-486.

Abortion pill term papers report that more recent than the partial birth abortion issue and even more likely to draw distinct political and moral platforms is the controversy surrounding the abortion pill, RU-486. The RU-486 pill is a French invention that has been used for more than twenty years to prompt spontaneous abortion in women throughout several European countries. The RU-486 pill, not unlike traditional methods of abortion, has both provoked controversy and delineated political and moral postures in this country.

Morals and the Abortion Pill

While the partial birth abortion method has generated political controversy in the recent past, the abortion pill has had the potential to sway the political outcomes of this year’s Presidential elections, especially as moral issues in today’s society play a crucial part in politics. In spite of its rather demure emergence and validation by the Federal Food and Drug Administration, there are those constituents that have followed its entry into the United States.
It should be noted that during his term, President George Bush Sr. banned the pill’s entry into the states, suggesting that it had not been adequately tested and could pose health risks to the American women that used it. Former Presidential Democratic nominee Al Gore supported the availability of the procedure and “has said that he would support a woman’s right to choose abortion and that he would not block the sale of RU-486 if it meets FDA standards”. Pro-life advocate, George W. Bush Jr., on the other hand, is a strong abortion opponent “except in instances of rape, incest and when the mother’s life is in danger and opposes the sale or use of RU-486.”

The abortion pill, also known as Mifeprex, was created a way for women to prevent pregnancy or to end an early pregnancy. In many states, females under the age of 18 years must obtain parental consent to take the pill. Since its invention, the abortion pill has undergone a tremendous amount of scrutiny and controversy. Opponents of the abortion pill and legalizing abortion feel as though it is unethical and unsafe. This is mostly because it can be used by any female, under any circumstance, without the assistance of a medical professional. Planned Parenthood reports that the abortion pill is safe for women as long as it is consumed as directed, and provides many benefits to women and society.

Politics and the Abortion Pill

Any decision made by either candidate in the position of President concerning the abortion pill has the potential to either uphold the Roe vs. Wade decision or impair it. While impairment to the Roe versus Wade decision could only come in the way of appointing partisan influences in the positions of FDA commissioner and secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, it is an achievable possibility.

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Health Canada apologizes for blundering over existence of RU-486 application

by Peter Baklinski

Thu Jan 09 3:03 PM EST

 

OTTAWA, January 9, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Health Canada has apologized to a parliamentary health committee for giving it misinformation in a November meeting that no application to approve the controversial abortion drug RU-486 (Mifepristone) existed.

“Since my appearance, it has come to my attention that I did not have the correct information”, stated Health Canada’s Deputy Minister George Da Pont to Ben Lobb, chair on the Standing Committee on Health in a January 08 letter obtained by LifeSiteNews.com.

Da Pont had told the health committee in the November 25 meeting that there was no pending application to have RU-486 approved in Canada - on the very same day that the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published an article stating that such an application existed.

“To date, no company has applied to market the product in Canada”, Da Pont told NDP MP Libby Davies (Vancouver East, BC) when she asked why Health Canada had not yet approved the abortion pill, a drug that she said “provides very safe access for a medical abortion, particularly for women in rural and remote countries.”

 

After LifeSiteNews.com broke the story of the minister’s conflicting statement, it took almost a month for Health Canada to admit its error.

“I apologize for having misinformed committee members. This was not my intention”, stated Da Pont in the letter.

 

Health Canada would not give LifeSiteNews information about the name of the pharmaceutical company submitting the RU-486 application, nor the commercial name of the Mifepristone pill it seeks to bring into Canada.

 

LifeSiteNews.com has yet to obtain the results of a freedom of information request regarding this information filed in December.

 

Health Canada did say that its scientists are currently conducting a “scientific review” of the abortion drug. If it meets the “requirements of the regulations, an authorization may be issued”.

“All new drug applications are required to meet evidentiary standards demonstrating safety, effectiveness, and quality, including that the benefits outweigh any risks”, it stated.

Da Pont told the health committee back in the above mentioned November meeting that if an application were received, it would “go faster than normal applications” given what he called the drug’s “widespread use, [and] given lots of data from other countries”.

 

Pro-life groups across the country, including a group of doctors, have condemned the abortion drug for the harm it causes to women — including numerous accounts of death — and for the slow painful death it inflicts on unborn children.

 

An RU-486 abortion involves a two-drug combination, usually offered to women less than nine weeks pregnant. Mifepristone, a synthetic steroid, blocks the hormone progesterone. This shuts down the woman’s pregnancy-sustaining mechanism with the result that the baby, deprived of necessary life-support, starves to death, and detaches from the uterine wall. Misoprostol, given a day or so later, initiates powerful uterine contractions that cause the woman to expel her dead baby.

 

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A previous Canadian trial of RU-486 was shelved in 2001 after the death of a woman from toxic shock, brought on by a bacterial infection related to the chemical abortion of her child. A 2011 U.S. Food and Drug Administration report found that 14 U.S. women died after taking RU-486.

Campaign Life Coalition, the country’s political arm of the pro-life movement, has launched an online petition to keep the drug out of Canada that will be submitted to the country’s health minister Rona Ambrose. It has been signed by 1831 people as of this writing.

 

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Prostitution "Out of Business" REPORT

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EFC PROPOSES CANADA CRIMINALIZE PURCHASE OF SEX
December 11, 2013
OTTAWA – The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) has released a comprehensive report proposing reform to Canada’s prostitution laws entitled Out of Business: Prostitution in Canada – Putting an End to Demand.

One of the EFC’s goals is the elimination of all forms of sexual exploitation in Canada. To that end, in Out of Business the EFC proposes a Canadian adaptation of the Nordic model of law and policy on prostitution.

“A change in law that criminalizes the purchase of sexual services will help reshape attitudes about prostitution, making a stronger statement that in Canada we will not tolerate or condone sexual exploitation,” says Don Hutchinson, EFC Vice-President and General Legal Counsel. “Still, more than that is needed to put an end to sexual exploitation, so in Out of Business we have adapted law and policies that have proven successful elsewhere to work within Canada’s constitutional requirements.”

Key recommendations include:

• Criminalize the purchase and attempted purchase of sex
• Maintain prohibitions against profiting from sexual exploitation
• Amend our laws to reflect the non-criminal nature of individuals who are being prostituted
• Invest in exit programs and support for prostituted persons
• Initiate a public awareness campaign to accompany such a change in the law.

The Nordic model, first enacted in Sweden in 1999, recognizes that the vast majority of prostituted persons are not prostituting willingly. It focuses on eliminating the demand for purchase of sexual services in an effort to abolish prostitution. Criminalizing the buyers, pimps and traffickers has proven successful in reducing rates of prostitution and sex trafficking and has been replicated in Norway and Iceland.

More than a decade of experience with the Nordic model has countries like The Netherlands, Germany and New Zealand rethinking their approach of legalization, decriminalization and efforts at regulation. Israel, Ireland and Scotland are taking steps toward laws targeting the purchase of sex. France’s Parliament voted last week in favour of proceeding with legislation that would impose strict fines on individuals who purchase or attempt to purchase sexual services.

 

“The Nordic model is one of the most coherent and successful prostitution policy models ever developed,” said Julia Beazley, policy analyst with the EFC. “It’s time we shift the focus of our laws toward those who exploit. There is no justice in laws that serve mainly to further victimize individuals who have been abused, marginalized or racialized. Nor is there justice in normalizing or legitimizing abuse and exploitation. We must be unambiguous in defining prostitution as a form of violence, abuse and control of vulnerable women, children and men.”Prostitution has never been illegal in Canada. What we have currently is an approach in which prostitution itself is legal, but virtually all activities surrounding it are not.

 

Three key provisions of Canada’s Criminal Code have been challenged in the courts and are awaiting a final decision from the Supreme Court of Canada. The provisions in question relate to operating a common bawdy house or brothel, living on the avails of prostitution and communicating for the purposes of prostitution.

“Canadians have known for some time that our laws on prostitution are not working,” explains Hutchinson. “Despite three thorough government-initiated studies and reports since 1983, all agreeing that the status quo is unacceptable, our laws have remained unchanged. Now we have the experience of other countries, demonstrating what does and doesn’t work, on which to build. Regardless of the outcome at the Supreme Court, our laws and policies in this area are in need of change.”

Download Out of Business: Prostitution in Canada – Putting an End to Demand at

www.theEfc.ca/OutOfBusiness

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Rick Hiemstra, Director of Media Relations
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
(613) 233-9868 x332

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