Defund Abortion Rally
RALLY WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!
Approximately 2,300 people from across Ontario, including many young people, rallied in front of Queen's Park on Saturday October 22, 2011 to demand the defunding of elective abortion.
Watch the brief video below which include snippets from mainstream media coverage of our rally, and highlights from guest speakers.
- To view photos from the Defund Abortion Rally held October 22, 2011, click here.
- To view video highlights from the rally, click here.
- To see the significant media coverage generated by this event at Queen's Park, click here.
- To download our official DEFUND ABORTION RALLY brochure, click here.
- Join our Defund Abortion Facebook fan page here.
MOVING AHEAD WITH THE TASK OF DEFUNDING ELECTIVE ABORTION
CLC Youth, the organizers of this first ever Defund Abortion Rally, will be employing various strategies to advance the defund objective. The first is to gather thousands of signatures on a Defund Abortion petition that will be presented to Ontario's Members of Provincial Parliament. Please download a blank petition, get as many signatures as possible, and return them to Campaign Life Coalition Youth, Attention: Alissa Golob.
Secondly, we want to engage all pro-lifers, but especially young people, on the front lines of this Defunding mission. We encourage people of all ages to contact us if they're interested in rolling up their sleeves to assist us. For young people especially, we'd like to have a team of pro-life youth in every riding of the province to carry out simple, effective strategies including: mailbox leaflet stuffing and holding 'mini' defund rallies at the office of local MPPs. As one speaker stated at the rally, "Young people are not the future. Young people are the present". If you want to stop talking about defunding abortion, and begin doing something about it, email Alissa Golob today.
THE OPPORTUNITY COST OF PUBLICLY FUNDING ABORTION - video
On Saturday, October 22nd, 2011 over 2,000 Ontarians sent our newly elected provincial government a message: STOP using our hard-earned tax dollars to fund the killing of innocent preborn children.
Campaign Life Coalition Youth holds the position that government-funded abortions are a blatant abuse of tax dollars, are severely unjust, and that these funds can and MUST be directed away from the killing of our preborn children. This is an issue that should be held close to the hearts of young people in particular. We did not have a choice to stand-up against the Morgentaler decision, but we have a choice now. Let’s use it. We are the survivors and it’s our job to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves. Thank you for joining us at the rally. We will keep you posted on next steps to continue the DEFUND ABORTION agenda in Ontario's legislture.
Excerpts from the Canadian Physicians for Life stance on de-funding of abortion:
“Abortion is not an essential medical service. It is designated "medically necessary" for purely social and political, not medical, reasons. Pregnancy is not an "injury, illness or disease." There is no proof that abortion improves health. In fact it disrupts a normal physiological process, poses a risk to the mother, and ends the life of her developing child. There is no "medical necessity" where no medical benefit or health risk exists.”
“To justify funding of a service, the medical necessity and therapeutic value of that service should be undisputed. “
“If the federal government had any confidence that a majority of Canadians wish to see abortion funded by the taxpayer, it could easily prove so in a referendum. Without such a democratic affirmation of national support for free abortions, the government should at least respect the diversity of provincial government approaches to abortion funding."
Taken from An Open Letter to Canada's Health Minister Honourable Allan Rock found here.
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