John Moore on Henry Morgentaler: Good battles can be fought by dubious people

Published: July 2, 2008, 4:07 pm

Dr. Henry Morgentaler is like a Rorschach Test. Show his picture to activist Judy Rebick, or one of the millions of Canadian women who have undergone an abortion they do not regret, and they see a hero; a man who put principal ahead of personal freedom and safety. To people of faith and many more, Morgentaler is a mass murderer responsible for the annual slaughter of 100,000 babies in our country. Law professor Ian Hunter wrote here that Morgentaler's work is so repellent that he can't even bring himself to accord him the honorific Doctor. Gwen Landolt, a co-founder of the conservative group REAL Women, wrote off Morgentaler's recent admission to the Order of Canada as yet more proof that the Order has been co-opted by left-wing feminists, homosexuals and environmentalists. How one feels about abortion necessarily becomes the lens through which the man himself is seen. His personality is suffused with either charisma or egotism. The fact that he escaped the Holocaust

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