By Dave Andrusko

Pro-abortion Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau
No two ways around it. Monday was a considerable setback for the cause of life in Canada.
Loved, indeed fawned upon, by the media, pro-abortion Justin Trudeau led the Liberal Party to a resounding victory. When the tallies are official, Liberals will have won 184 of 338 seats while the governing Conservative Party of Stephen Harper dropped to 99 seats. The New Democratic Party carried 44 seats.
As a side note, The Washington Post’s Joshua Tucker explained
The Liberals took approximately 40 percent of the vote nationwide. Canada’s electoral system is based on the principle of “first past the post.” That means the candidate with the most votes in the riding (Canada’s term for electoral districts), even if it’s just a plurality, takes the seat. Since other parties split the vote in many districts, the Liberals took the majority of seats in the House of Commons.
Here are conclusions from pro-life individuals and groups in Canada. Jonathon Van Maren writes
1. It’s hard to make things worse when it comes to abortion in Canada—we haven’t had a law restricting abortion since 1988. But Justin Trudeau will certainly try. He’s already indicated that he would fund abortion overseas, and push to make sure abortion is more easily accessible in places like Prince Edward Island. Add to that the majority of Members of Parliament being either hardline pro-abortion or being forced to vote that way by Mr. Trudeau, and it won’t be an easy four years for the pro-life movement.
2. A Trudeau Administration will usher in the legality of euthanasia—with the Supreme Court of Canada having overturned our laws against it in the Carter Case, the House of Commons, now dominated by Trudeau’s Liberals, will have the chance to pass their own laws on euthanasia. The Liberal Party endorsed the decriminalization of euthanasia almost unanimously in 2014, only wanting some oversight of how doctors kill their patients. The motion was sponsored by Liberal delegate Wendy Robins, who has managed to create a version of the facts in which the Belgium euthanasia model—already being used by perfectly healthy people—is not a dangerous one. For the record, Belgium allows the euthanizing—read “killing”—of children, and there are already Belgian doctors pushing for the widespread acceptance of “involuntary euthanasia—read “killing of people who don’t want to be killed.” Canadian hospitals—especially with a rapidly aging population and a very strained and over-crowded healthcare system—are about to get very dangerous for the elderly and the vulnerable.
Answering the question, “Who is Justin Trudeau,”? Lianne Laurence and Steve Jalsevac quote from a variety of Canadian pro-life leaders and then cite a number of pro-abortion positions taken by Trudeau. To list just four
September 29, 2015: On how abortion should be funded internationally as a remedy for poverty: During the French language Munk debate, Trudeau called Harper a “prisoner of his ideology” for allowing women to die from “unsafe abortion,” and criticized him for “not doing everything we should be doing to help mothers and the most vulnerable throughout the world to remove people from poverty.”
September 14, 2015: On how Prince Edward Island may be forced to provide abortions: “I recognize that Premier MacLauchlan has made positive steps in the right direction, but it’s important that every Canadian across this country has access to a full range of health services, including full reproductive services, in every province in the country.”
September 16, 2014: On how the “right” to abortion trumps MP’s conscience rights: “I have had a lot of Liberals come up to me and say, ‘I don’t quite understand, isn’t the Liberal party about freedom and about defending people’s rights?’…Absolutely it is. And the rights that women have fought for over decades to be in control of their own bodies and to control their own reproductive health is not a right I’m going to brush aside to defend the freedom of speech or the freedom to vote a particular way for an MP.”
May 7, 2014: On banning anyone with pro-life convictions from running as a candidate for the Liberal Party: “I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills…We are steadfast in our belief … it is not for any government to legislate what a woman chooses to do with her body. And that is the bottom line.”
With all that in mind, Mike Schouten, the Campaign Director for the pro-life organization Weneedalaw.ca, posted a Facebook message in which he offered words of encouragement. He concluded
It is never wrong to do justice and love mercy. And it is certainly never wrong to stand up, indeed to speak out, for those who cannot do so themselves.