Canada is the only developed country in the world with no abortion law. This political vacuum suits liberals and libertarians, but discomfits many other Canadians. Since the issue is being strenuously ignored at the highest levels of government (witness the Conservatives’ horror at a recent private-member’s bill arising from their own caucus), we must look elsewhere for investigation of this profoundly moral question.

Hope for a national debate on abortion lies with individual Canadians speaking directly to their fellow citizens, creating pressure from below to force the debate into the public forum, and ultimately Parliament itself. On that front, I commend to your attention a remarkable just-published polemic by one Jackson Doughart, entitled, A Refuge for the Unborn: The case against abortion on Prince Edward Island.

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