A hundred and fifty years ago, Abraham Lincoln was running for President of the United States. He had run for office 13 times as a Whig, but the Whig Party refused to touch the great moral issue of the day: slavery. So Lincoln switched to a little upstart party-the Republicans.

And the Whig Party went into the ash-can of history.

The Conservatives, Liberals, NDP and Greens all walk in lock-step on the gravest moral issue of our day: abortion. If they continue to refuse to deal with this important issue, their parties-like the Whigs-will go into the ash-can of history. And if Canadians continue to vote for parties that defend this odious industry of death, our nation will follow them into the ash-can of history.

Abortion is the most common surgical procedure in Canada. It cures no known disease. It kills at least half its patients. It increases the risk of breast cancer by 30%, according to a meta-analysis of 29 studies from around the world. The half-billion dollars we spent on abortion and Gardasil last year could have brought both autism and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome-the most common and most preventable birth defect-under medicare.

But Prime Minister Harper won't allow debate on abortion in Parliament; he even said that if a private member's bill comes into the House, he'll compel the Cabinet to vote against it.

Mr. Harper has thus made his party an enemy of democracy and a defender of the abortion industry. He would have Canada remain the only developed nation with no law at all on abortion, while 110,000 babies die every year.

Many Canadians now think abortion is legal in Canada. One newspaper asked, during the election campaign, if candidates would "change a woman's right to choose as presently legislated." The Question was wrong: Canada has no legislation on abortion! And when the Supreme Court struck down the last vestiges of abortion law in January, 1988, it said it's Parliament's responsibility to rule on protection of the pre-born child. But that hasn't happened, because, as Senator Anne Cools said ten years later (speaking of judicial activism), of cowardice in the House of Commons.

That's why Canadians must launch a tidal wave of morality that will save Canada by restoring respect for innocent human life, and establishing non-lethal alternatives to abortion. The time to begin campaigning for the next federal election is today!

We call on all those concerned about the slaughter of our children to join the battle to protect them by joining the CHP.