“We need a law,” Pro-Life Canadians march to end abortion
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Every year, thousands of pro-life Canadians make their way to Parliament Hill to demand an end to abortion. This comes amid Canada having no abortion laws and over 87,000 abortions taking place in 2021 alone. I went to the National March for Life to ask some of the people there about their convictions, as well as why they are attending this rally.
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Every year, the National March for Life takes place in downtown Ottawa, with thousands of
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pro-life Canadians making their way to Parliament Hill to demand, among other things, an end to
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abortion. This comes amid Canada having no abortion laws and over 87,000 abortions taking
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place in 2021 alone. I went to the March for Life to ask some of the people there about their
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pro-life convictions, as well as why they are attending this rally. Do you want to tell me
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why you're pro-life and why you're here? Yeah, so I'm pro-life because I believe that life begins
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at conception. That's just biology, but also I'm a Christian, and so I believe that every life has
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value, no matter how small, no matter what age, what stage at development you are. The root of,
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you know, my pro-life stance would be my faith in Jesus. I'm a Christian, and I think, you know,
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if you adhere to the Bible, I don't think there's any other option than to be pro-life.
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Well, I'm pro-life because my mother saved me. I have four siblings, and I'm very happy. I was brought
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up in a poor family, but we had plenty to eat. We definitely believe that life begins at
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conception, and because we're Christians, there are a lot of scriptures that say that.
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The life comes from God. God is the one that gives life. God is the one that takes life,
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and we shouldn't, we should be living in a culture of life. What's happening now is we've
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moved into a culture of death and chaos, and everything is going downhill. I was in my devotions
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this morning, and out of Jeremiah 1, the Lord is speaking to Jeremiah that he knew him even while
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he was in his mother's womb, and that he had a destiny as a prophet to the nations even then.
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So we're here to celebrate life, but not only just life, but that each and every one of us
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have a destiny. We have a purpose. We're here for a purpose, and we're here to fulfill the purposes
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of God. We're here just to represent the unborn. Abortion is an atrocity, and we've got to call it
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what it is. It's murder, and we're here to speak out against that. Yeah, we're followers of Christ.
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We run a Christian youth organization, and we follow the commandments, you know,
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thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not kill. So we're here to represent that, and we're here
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to stand up against that. I also wanted to ask attendees about the overturning of Roe versus
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Wade in the United States, because while it has been a victory for the American pro-life movement,
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and has led to several states enacting legislation to protect pre-born children, here in Canada,
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it has fueled pro-abortion rhetoric. Hence, I wanted to know what impacts the people at the
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March for Life thought the overturning of Roe versus Wade had on the Canadian pro-life movement.
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What impacts do you think the overturning of Roe versus Wade has had, particularly on the Canadian
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pro-life movement and the life discourse in Canada?
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Yeah. I think it was encouraging for a lot, but it's also created a lot more controversy,
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and it put the issue back in the spotlight for a bit. It's an issue that a lot of people wish to
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overlook, but I mean, you have to, the way I look at it is when slavery was going on, people were okay
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with that, and it was normalized, and they were desensitized to it. And I think the murder of millions
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of babies is the same issue. We're going to look back on that, and our grandkids are going to ask us
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I don't know. I think it's, I think what it's, it's given us some, uh,
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Yeah, determination that it can be done. It's given us a little bit more of a push
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that all, that we can continue to, um, to do things like this, and we're, our voice is being heard.
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Yeah, it's really important that we as Canadians, we have, we need a law. We don't have a law.
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So things are carte blanche in the nation that we can do whatever. So having, seeing that
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restoration of Roe v. Wade is really positive for Canada. I'll tell you, it has the, those on the
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left, Hillary Clinton just being here in the nation, just standing up and saying that, that they need
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to hold their ground. But I think we need to, we need a law. We need a law that is like a magnetic
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hill that'll pull us up into the place of righteousness.
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I think that we need to be very cautious. Um, things could backfire on us. And that's not
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the idea. The idea is to walk forward and promote the culture of life. Because as we can see, when
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we're, when we embrace the culture of death, it gets worse all the time. Just to look at
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euthanasia made, I mean, it's, it's becoming available for every, it's the way to go. It's,
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it's, it's a culture of death is, is seen by so many now as the merciful, the merciful way to help
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the vulnerable and the marginalized. Right? And exactly. Any good result when it, that, that
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sort of, uh, uh, looks to reduce the amount of abortions going on in, in any given country
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is, is cause for hope in Canada. You know, because things, things trickle down, trickle
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up, spread out, right? So whatever goes on, especially when it comes to the U.S.-Canadian relationship,
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uh, quite often, whatever happens there happens here, both in good things and in bad things. So,
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um, you know, we don't have the same situation here, uh, that Roe v. Wade has, uh, uh, R v.
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Morgenthaler is absolutely something completely different, but it still gives hope. And people
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say, aha, like I, they did, they didn't think that was going to happen in the States so soon,
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uh, 50 years it took. So we're, you know, we've been marching for 26 years. So let's, uh,
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hope that doesn't take us another 14 years, but we'll see.
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Well, I think it's an encouragement because it was, I mean, it was a bad decision all those
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years ago. And even those who were the defendants in it didn't support the decision that was
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made. It needed to be overturned on the basis of just legal judgment. At the Canadian end,
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it reminds us that with, you know, with prayer and care and what I say, non-polemical witness,
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a lot of times, like talking to people about the real issues involved, not just shouting at each
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other, but actually getting to know each other, listening to one another, listening to the concerns
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of those who oppose any kind of abortion law, say, you know, what are they concerned about?
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What do we think the issues are? But the fact that things changes could be made, that's a big deal.
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The fact that in Canada, there's been a little of digging in the heels in government circles or
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something is a problem. But I think there's an encouragement for those in pro-life movement.
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