{"id":261380,"date":"2022-02-02T06:43:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=261380"},"modified":"2022-02-03T13:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:55:59","slug":"nathanson-canadas-father-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nathanson-canadas-father-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASHBACK: Bernard Nathanson faces Canada’s ‘father of abortion’ on live TV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Campaign Life Coalition<\/a>) It was a mild Canadian winter day in January of 1983. Michael Jackson\u2019s Thriller was about to set a record for being a top billboard hit for 37 weeks in a row. The super-popular TV show M*A*S*H was about to run its final episode, which, with 105 million viewers, would become the most-watched television event of the era. The country\u2019s federal government had just officially adopted the metric system of weights and measurements. Pay television was about to debut across the provinces.<\/p>\n

One free television program that many people in the Ontario city of Hamilton and beyond tuned into on January 21, 39 years ago to the day, saw legendary Canadian TV and radio broadcaster Tom Cherington interviewing two well-dressed men. These were not ordinary men. Both were doctors. And, they were not ordinary doctors. In fact, both had done more than any others in their field to advance abortion across North America, both in Canada and in the United States.<\/p>\n

Both of the doctors that day on the Cherington show were each responsible for the demise of thousands of preborn children through abortion. One doctor still championed abortion and would go on to work tirelessly for its expansion. The other, however, had recently undergone a radical change of heart on the matter. Not only did he deeply regret his former abortion activism, but he now championed a complete moratorium on abortion.<\/p>\n

These two doctors, an abortionist and an ex-abortionist, were about to go head-to-head on live television. Their complete hour-long epic showdown has not been published anywhere online until today. We at Campaign Life Coalition, Canada\u2019s political arm of the pro-life and pro-family movement, unearthed a copy of the interview from our archives and uploaded it to YouTube.<\/p>\n