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Morgentaler's campaign for women's reproductive health has taken him across Canada on speaking engagements and fund-raising tours to promote family planning.
In 1999, Morgentaler claimed that a decline in youth crime rates could be credited to the legalization of abortion nearly twenty years earlier, leading to fewer neglected and angry children and more mothers surviving to nurture their children.
In 2006, Dr. Morgentaler retired from active practice.
In August 2011, Henry Morgentaler attended the funeral of Opposition Leader Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party. In the 1980s, Jack Layton attended clinic defences of the Morgentaler clinics, when abortion rights supporters guarded the entrance of a clinic to keep abortion opponents from blockading the doorways to stop patients from entering. The NDP has been a staunch supporter of abortion rights, making them part of its political platform for many years.
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