National March for Life calls for an end to #50yearsofshame
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By Chris Murawsky
We have had 50 years of legal abortion in Canada and it is an important year for the National March for Life. While we regret the need to march, we embrace the duty to do it. It is time to energize and mobilize pro-life Canadians to march together on May 9, on Parliament Hill.
What started out as a call for abortion to be “safe, legal, and rare” turned into 300 lives taken, every day, through the desperate act of abortion. All life matters, from conception to natural death. It is the Church’s mandate to take a stand and be the voice for the voiceless. So, can we count you in?
The March is an invigorating and inspiring environment and this year will be no different. Standing for life can be hard, with opposition from the summer jobs controversy to censorship on campuses, but the March offers pro-lifers a chance to encourage each other and lift a united voice in the heart of Ottawa.
The National March for Life is Canada’s biggest annual protest—and those numbers matter. Photo courtesy of Campaign Life Coalition.
In fact, the National March for Life is Canada’s biggest annual protest—and those numbers matter. If we want to awaken a numb population to the horror they dare not speak about, we need to stand together and make every voice count.
Over the years Campaign Life Coalition increased the events around the March, turning it into a multi-day support and launching pad: from the Candlelight Vigil, held at the Human Rights Monument at 9 p.m. the night before the March, to the Rose Dinner banquet and a pro-life apologetics conference for youth. All are designed to capture the hearts and minds of those who see you walking, singing, chanting, and praying and to help you go home built up and ready to stand for life throughout the year.
More than 4 million babies have been killed through abortion since it was legalized by Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
The biggest human rights violation of our time is happening under our watch. More than 4 million babies have been killed through abortion since it was legalized by Pierre Elliot Trudeau, in 1969. The decision of the Supreme Court, in 1988, to strike down that law, asking Parliament to enact new abortion restrictions, and Parliament’s lack of action has left us as one of only three countries in the world that have no restrictions, at all, on abortion: Canada, China, and North Korea.
#50yearsofshame cannot go unnoticed. Be the voice for the voiceless. Join us at the March for Life.
For more information visit www.marchforlife.ca
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