In June of 2005, The University of Western Ontario will honour Dr. Henry Morgentaler in its graduation ceremony. Ever since he was nominated to receive an honourary degree for his work with women's rights, there has been much controversy between the U.W.O honourary committee and some of the citizens of Canada. The question some people are asking is, has U.W.O gone too far in allowing a person that comes with so many disputes to receive an honourary award? Personally, I believe that in order to answer this question, you would have to look at both sides of the argument before you could give an answer.
             Dr. Henry Morgentaler is best known for his crusading on women's rights to an abortion. In 1969, he openly started doing illegal abortions. By doing these, he started a 20-year battle with the national government, the judicial system, the police force, all sorts of religions and even snipers that have tried to kill him for his doings. Throughout this 20-year period he was in jail for 10 months, had eight raids on his clinics, a fire bombing and has even had to pay an estimated two million dollars for all of his legal battles. He once said "I'm aware someone might pump a few bullets into me. But that won't deter me because I believe what I do is important. We have a safer, better society as a result. I felt it was my duty. And I've never regretted it."
             People that are against Dr. Morgentaler getting this honourary degree are usually religious people and people that have strong morals against abortion. Me being one of them. I personally believe that abortion is wrong unless the women wanting this procedure will die or have serious health risks if she goes through with the pregnancy. I deem that any person that is mature enough to have unprotected sex should be mature enough to face up to their responsibilities. I understand that accidents do happen, say for instance, a wom
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