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Sandy's threat postpones Ontario Defund Abortion Rally at Queen's Park tomorrow

Toronto, Oct. 29, 2012 –  A planned taxpayer rally against public funding of abortions scheduled for Tuesday October 30th at Ontario’s legislature has been postponed due to safety concerns caused by hurricane Sandy.   According to weather reports, wind gusts of 80 to 100km per hour and up to 75 mm rain forecasted for tomorrow make it potentially unsafe to travel to Queen’s Park, especially for out of town Ontarians.

“Dalton’s desperate and devious prorogation of parliament couldn’t deter us, but the safety of pro-life citizens travelling on dangerous roads from all parts of Ontario made us reschedule the defund abortion rally,” said Alissa Golob, Youth Coordinator for Campaign Life Coalition and organizer of the defund abortion campaign. “In the near future, we‘ll announce a rescheduled date for the event, likely after prorogation ends.”

The massive rally was to be phase II of Campaign Life Coalition Youth’s 2012 defund abortion campaign. Phase I involved mini-rallies at the constituency offices of 44 MPPs across Ontario on October 13th, sending a strong message to the elected representative and at the same time, raising community awareness about the economic drain of publicly-funded abortions.

“Although it’s disappointing to reschedule a massive event that many people have arranged their school and work schedules around, we’ll be back in full force,” said Matthew Wojciechowski, Campaign Life Coalition Youth. “Pregnancy is not a sickness, injury or disease so we’ll return to demand that MPPs delist abortion from OHIP.”

Official figures on number of abortions in Ontario are no longer disclosed, but it’s estimated at 30,000 to 50,000 annually, at a total cost of approximately 30 to $50 million dollars per year. In addition, the total cost of abortion is much higher when the indirect costs of abortion are included. Abortion complications such as perforations, uterine hemorrhage, pelvic inflammatory disease, sepsis, post-traumatic stress disorder, suicide and infertility are indirect costs which, when included, could escalate the annual cost of abortion to hundreds of millions of dollars on our health care system.

More information on the Defund Abortion rally can be obtained at campaignlifecoalition.com/defund.

About Campaign Life Coalition Youth:
CLCY is a division of Campaign Life Coalition that is tasked with engaging Canadian youth, and harnessing their dynamism, in the civil rights issue of our age – legal protection for children in the womb. CLCY believes that Ontarians who object to the killing of children should not be forced to pay for abortions.

Media Contacts:
Jack Fonseca, Campaign Life Coalition,  Tel: 416-204-9781
Alissa Golob, Campaign Life Coalition Youth, Tel: 416-204-9749 ext. 238
Matthew Wojciechowski, Campaign Life Coalition Youth, Tel:  416-204-9749 ext. 239

 

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