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Newly Formed Coalition of Women Celebrate the End of Roe v Wade
Press Release:
It’s been almost one hundred years since the infamous Person’s Case in Canada that inspired the simple headline: Women are Persons. That case reminds us that too often it takes a long time to correct bad law. Waiting for the Supreme Court in the United States to release their final decision about Roe v. Wade caused three Canadian women to consider how long overdue, it is that this bad law be overturned. Three unaffiliated women, Jakki Jeffs, Executive Director of Alliance for Life Ontario, Tabitha Ewert, Legal Counsel for We Need A Law, and Andrea Mrozek, Senior Fellow at Cardus and creator of ProWomanProLife.org led the charge to make it clear that pro-life women exist en masse in Canada and we want our voices to be heard.
We decided to aim for an initial one hundred women to sign our statement on why it is encouraging that Roe v Wade be overturned. While this is an American decision with no bearing on Canadian law, we are aware that this decision will be discussed in Canada. We await the day that no living person be denied personhood, born or preborn, male or female and every pregnant woman has access to life affirming help in her community.
One hundred women signed easily and quickly. Sailing through that goal we now go public seeking a thousand and then a hundred thousand signatures of women across Canada, unaffiliated but for the purpose of saying we unabashedly applaud the overturning of Roe v Wade.
“It’s emotional for me. For so many women, who feel underrepresented in the public square, the fall of Roe is deeply significant and encouraging,” said Andrea Mrozek. “While there remains a long way to go in making abortion unthinkable, this is a very encouraging step, and long overdue, Women deserve way better than abortion,” said Jakki Jeffs. “Roe was very bad law, based on a fabricated right to privacy,” said Tabitha Ewert. “On that basis alone, it could not stand, and the court was right to overturn it,” she added.
It is the hope of this limited coalition that the voices of pro-life women would be heard. Other women who wish to sign on can do so by going here.
We are non-religious, non-partisan and non-sectarian and stand united in opposition to abortion. One hundred women, seeking personhood, for all, so that one hundred years from the personhood case, the voices of all, with or without power in the world, might be heard.
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Contact:
Andrea Mrozek – 613.241.4500 ext..503
Tabitha Ewert – 604 220 1258
Jakki Jeffs – 519 820 3399 (cell) 519 821 9604 (office)
A Statement on Roe v Wade from Pro-Life Women in Canada
Today the US Supreme Court officially released a decision overruling Roe v. Wade. While this is an American decision with no implication for Canadian law, some politicians north of the border have already politicized the issue. For all of the undersigned women, however, overturning bad law marks a point of immense encouragement. We speak out because those leaders who defend abortion do not speak for us. We speak out in defence of all human beings from their biological beginnings until death. We speak out because defending and advocating for women also means defending and advocating for our preborn children.
The following outlines some of what we believe as regards the possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade:
- Roe v Wade was bad law because it fabricated a constitutional right that did not exist.
- Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey aided the falsehood that women need abortion in order to achieve equality with men. This had the consequence of idealizing male biology and pressuring women to mimic a man’s ability to walk away from sex seemingly consequence free while, for many of them, still facing the horrendous consequences of abortion.
- Women’s ability to be pregnant and carry a child is not a disability to overcome, but a reality to treasure.
- A woman who has made the choice to end her pregnancy understands how difficult this can be.
- Supporting “a right to choose” both ignores what that choice entails and does nothing to address the circumstances that led to that decision, but instead allows society to ignore them. By supporting women’s choices in the abstract, we minimize the very real difficulties women face and discourage real solutions.
- There is much more work to do for the pro-life community and society at large to truly support women. We need to change hearts, allay fears, and provide courage alongside practical and emotional support. This work is ongoing and will continue.
- Social and cultural change is needed to allow for the well being of both mother and child alongside attaining legal protection for every human life from its biological beginnings until natural death.
- It is a good thing when unjust laws are overturned. Therefore, we are deeply encouraged and hopeful that future laws will no longer adhere to an immoral, reprehensible standard that harmed so many women and men and killed so many children.
We, the undersigned, are women who stand united in opposition to abortion. We see the end of Roe v Wade as encouraging, yet find our voices inadequately represented in the public square. We pledge to ensure that this changes in the future as we make this joint statement.
Contacts
Tabitha Ewert – 604 220 1258
Jakki Jeffs – 519 820 3399 (cell) 519 821 9604 (office)
Andrea Mrozek – 613.241.4500 ext. 503
Current Signatories
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