Juno News - “We need a law,” Pro-Life Canadians march to end abortion

00:00:00.000 Every year, the National March for Life takes place in downtown Ottawa, with thousands of

00:00:06.540 pro-life Canadians making their way to Parliament Hill to demand, among other things, an end to

00:00:12.860 abortion. This comes amid Canada having no abortion laws and over 87,000 abortions taking

00:00:21.560 place in 2021 alone. I went to the March for Life to ask some of the people there about their

00:00:28.880 pro-life convictions, as well as why they are attending this rally. Do you want to tell me

00:00:34.780 why you're pro-life and why you're here? Yeah, so I'm pro-life because I believe that life begins

00:00:41.900 at conception. That's just biology, but also I'm a Christian, and so I believe that every life has

00:00:49.480 value, no matter how small, no matter what age, what stage at development you are. The root of,

00:00:55.660 you know, my pro-life stance would be my faith in Jesus. I'm a Christian, and I think, you know,

00:01:03.920 if you adhere to the Bible, I don't think there's any other option than to be pro-life.

00:01:09.220 Well, I'm pro-life because my mother saved me. I have four siblings, and I'm very happy. I was brought

00:01:19.440 up in a poor family, but we had plenty to eat. We definitely believe that life begins at

00:01:27.760 conception, and because we're Christians, there are a lot of scriptures that say that.

00:01:33.120 The life comes from God. God is the one that gives life. God is the one that takes life,

00:01:38.580 and we shouldn't, we should be living in a culture of life. What's happening now is we've

00:01:43.260 moved into a culture of death and chaos, and everything is going downhill. I was in my devotions

00:01:50.200 this morning, and out of Jeremiah 1, the Lord is speaking to Jeremiah that he knew him even while

00:01:58.700 he was in his mother's womb, and that he had a destiny as a prophet to the nations even then.

00:02:06.320 So we're here to celebrate life, but not only just life, but that each and every one of us

00:02:12.620 have a destiny. We have a purpose. We're here for a purpose, and we're here to fulfill the purposes

00:02:20.160 of God. We're here just to represent the unborn. Abortion is an atrocity, and we've got to call it 0.88

00:02:26.960 what it is. It's murder, and we're here to speak out against that. Yeah, we're followers of Christ.

00:02:33.360 We run a Christian youth organization, and we follow the commandments, you know,

00:02:40.100 thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not kill. So we're here to represent that, and we're here

00:02:44.840 to stand up against that. I also wanted to ask attendees about the overturning of Roe versus

00:02:49.760 Wade in the United States, because while it has been a victory for the American pro-life movement,

00:02:55.080 and has led to several states enacting legislation to protect pre-born children, here in Canada,

00:03:00.420 it has fueled pro-abortion rhetoric. Hence, I wanted to know what impacts the people at the

00:03:06.620 March for Life thought the overturning of Roe versus Wade had on the Canadian pro-life movement.

00:03:13.860 What impacts do you think the overturning of Roe versus Wade has had, particularly on the Canadian

00:03:18.880 pro-life movement and the life discourse in Canada?

00:03:22.160 Yeah. I think it was encouraging for a lot, but it's also created a lot more controversy,

00:03:27.420 and it put the issue back in the spotlight for a bit. It's an issue that a lot of people wish to

00:03:33.860 overlook, but I mean, you have to, the way I look at it is when slavery was going on, people were okay

00:03:40.400 with that, and it was normalized, and they were desensitized to it. And I think the murder of millions

00:03:44.520 of babies is the same issue. We're going to look back on that, and our grandkids are going to ask us

00:03:48.240 why we didn't do anything.

00:03:49.520 I don't know. I think it's, I think what it's, it's given us some, uh,

00:03:55.300 A determination?

00:03:56.000 Yeah, determination that it can be done. It's given us a little bit more of a push

00:04:01.860 that all, that we can continue to, um, to do things like this, and we're, our voice is being heard.

00:04:09.940 Yeah, it's really important that we as Canadians, we have, we need a law. We don't have a law.

00:04:17.160 So things are carte blanche in the nation that we can do whatever. So having, seeing that

00:04:24.500 restoration of Roe v. Wade is really positive for Canada. I'll tell you, it has the, those on the 0.87

00:04:31.820 left, Hillary Clinton just being here in the nation, just standing up and saying that, that they need

00:04:37.000 to hold their ground. But I think we need to, we need a law. We need a law that is like a magnetic

00:04:43.140 hill that'll pull us up into the place of righteousness.

00:04:46.540 I think that we need to be very cautious. Um, things could backfire on us. And that's not

00:04:53.340 the idea. The idea is to walk forward and promote the culture of life. Because as we can see, when

00:05:00.080 we're, when we embrace the culture of death, it gets worse all the time. Just to look at

00:05:05.640 euthanasia made, I mean, it's, it's becoming available for every, it's the way to go. It's,

00:05:11.140 it's, it's a culture of death is, is seen by so many now as the merciful, the merciful way to help

00:05:19.200 the vulnerable and the marginalized. Right? And exactly. Any good result when it, that, that

00:05:26.200 sort of, uh, uh, looks to reduce the amount of abortions going on in, in any given country

00:05:32.060 is, is cause for hope in Canada. You know, because things, things trickle down, trickle

00:05:37.640 up, spread out, right? So whatever goes on, especially when it comes to the U.S.-Canadian relationship,

00:05:43.640 uh, quite often, whatever happens there happens here, both in good things and in bad things. So,

00:05:49.840 um, you know, we don't have the same situation here, uh, that Roe v. Wade has, uh, uh, R v.

00:05:56.380 Morgenthaler is absolutely something completely different, but it still gives hope. And people

00:06:01.340 say, aha, like I, they did, they didn't think that was going to happen in the States so soon,

00:06:06.280 uh, 50 years it took. So we're, you know, we've been marching for 26 years. So let's, uh,

00:06:12.340 hope that doesn't take us another 14 years, but we'll see.

00:06:15.200 Well, I think it's an encouragement because it was, I mean, it was a bad decision all those

00:06:21.580 years ago. And even those who were the defendants in it didn't support the decision that was

00:06:27.180 made. It needed to be overturned on the basis of just legal judgment. At the Canadian end,

00:06:35.780 it reminds us that with, you know, with prayer and care and what I say, non-polemical witness,

00:06:44.020 a lot of times, like talking to people about the real issues involved, not just shouting at each

00:06:49.140 other, but actually getting to know each other, listening to one another, listening to the concerns

00:06:54.980 of those who oppose any kind of abortion law, say, you know, what are they concerned about?

00:07:00.980 What do we think the issues are? But the fact that things changes could be made, that's a big deal.

00:07:08.900 The fact that in Canada, there's been a little of digging in the heels in government circles or

00:07:14.100 something is a problem. But I think there's an encouragement for those in pro-life movement.

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Juno News - June 06, 2023

“We need a law,” Pro-Life Canadians march to end abortion

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