If you are visiting this site, you may have noticed our tagline, “Canada without abortion. By choice.”
Now that the U.S. has a pro-abortion President, I’m glad to see pro-lifers trying to think of other ways to outlaw abortion. Read about that, front page of the Washington Post, here. It’s wise to acknowledge Obama is pro-abortion and move on. (Whether or not a pro-lifer can or should have voted for him is a question we’ve already addressed and that debate is over now.)
Lots of interesting points in this article, including this one:
“You don’t work to limit the murder of innocent victims,” said Judie Brown, president of the American Life League. “You work to stop it.”
Yes, you work to stop it, but the question is how. I don’t think that civilized, compassionate societies should offer, pay for, sanction or condone abortion in any form. In that sense, some day we’ll come to the point where we outlaw it, as William Wilberforce worked to outlaw slavery. We’re not there, not even close. Now Wilberforce outlawed slavery on some sort of technicality–he was very clever about it–the mores of his culture had not yet changed.
We (pro-lifers) need to get creative. We need to look for new and different ways to stop abortion, especially considering Obama’s record on the topic. I hope he’s not as extreme as he appears, but all I have to go on is his solidly pro-abortion, Planned Parenthood Approved (gold star!) record. So better look elsewhere, is what I say, and incidentally, what I did, too in launching this web site and group. (Because in Canada, multi-cultural land of diversity that we are, every leader is pro-choice right now, and, I believe over the course of my lifetime this has always been the case.)
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Interesting commentary from the author of The Party of Death, here. He ends by saying this:
Still, we learn something from Salmon: It is indeed possible for pro-lifers to get friendly treatment from the Washington Post, at least as long as they are supporting pro-choice politicians.
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Since changing the political/cultural views of abortion would take a miracle (and of course that’s always possible!), perhaps working on a grass-roots basis will work — when it comes up, talk to people about the atrocity that abortion really is and how it hurts babies, mothers, fathers, etc., not ever being silent when there is an opportunity to speak (or write), start (or read) a blog, support crisis pregnancy centres, get on board with whatever pro-life activity crosses your path – just do something!
At the closing rally of the 40 Days for Life campaign held here in Ottawa, Nicole Campbell (the campaign organizer) stated that this is no time to be “personally pro-life”. We really do need to be the change we want to see in the world. (Gandhi)
I always thought that an effective attitude-changing campaign would involve a lot of hard science and zero religious reasoning. This would reach out to the secular sector of society that views this issue solely through the lens of women’s human rights.
A smartly-produced ad featuring some actual ultra-sound footage of a human being at various stages of development and quotations from medical textbooks discussing fetal development with every instance of the word “human” bolded would cause a greater number of people to really think about what is involved. The ending could show the oft-cited quote “Is it just a clump of cells” with pictures of fetuses, babies, children, adults and a variety of cute wildlife, etc. Even more powerful (yet more difficult) would be images of the same person in their ultrasound pic and post-birth.
Obviously, this requires funds that are ultimately not available to the movement at the moment. I think for people who often associate pro-life views with religion and anti-birth control attitudes, this would be a strong message.
Anyways, very disappointed in the Conservative government and their lack of moral leadership on this issue. I understand that it is politically “risky”, what has been accomplished without risk and a devotion to one’s principles?
I try to speak out against abortion but you only have to mention pro life and some people go foaming at the mouth. I even get attacked by other ‘pro lifers’ for trying to impose my views on people.