Morgentaler successfully championed the rights of women to make their own medical decisions, and to not suffer at the hands of back alley butchers when human nature and society's expectations clash in their expectations of a woman.
But in no way, shape or form, has our ever increasing reliance on scraping the insides out of a woman's womb, brought us 'out of the dark ages.' Our increased demand that women should 'know better', our increased insistence that there is nothing in life more devastating than an unplanned pregnancy, is not 'enlightened'.
Morgentaler was a doctor attempting to provide medical care, for a social problem. Nothing more, nothing less. Long before any of these desperate women resorted to his care, society taught them to fear their pregnancies. That's the evil. And it doesn't rest with Morgentaler. And it won't end with his departure from this world, no matter how gleeful some 'pro-lifers' are over the death of a human.
