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January 28, 2003

Canada’s Shame: 1988 to 2003 -15 More Years of Killing preborn Children

In 1969 with the Liberal Government’s Omnibus Bill we opened the door to abortion on demand. Since that date more than two and half million babies have been deliberately killed in their mothers’ womb.

On January 28, 1988, the Supreme Court continued the downward spiral by its pro-abortion ruling. At that time the Court also said that it was up to Parliament to produce legislation to protect new human life.

Our Parliament today is debating Bill C-13, which will allow embryonic humans to be used in scientific experimentation. Abortions continue daily in most Canadian hospitals. Canada is in a state of lawlessness regarding the protection of human life. Our government has failed to produce a law.

“As a young person who has was not even born in 1969 and one who is passionately opposed to the killing of unborn children, I feel I can speak about this particular anniversary,” said Gillian Long, speaking on behalf of Campaign Life Coalition. “The
early feminists who pushed for so-called ‘freedom of choice’ over their own bodies
are not relevant to today’s youth. We reject the old rhetoric and we understand that human life begins at the time of conception (fertilization)”, she continued. “The child in the womb is not a blob of tissue or a collection of cells as stated in 1969. The scientific facts speak for themselves and we speak for the defenseless child,” she added.

“Public opinion is shifting,” said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. “The majority of people in Canada want some protection for human life in the womb and CLC calls on the federal government to produce a law which will recognize and protect every human being”, he said. “Human beings are not commodities to be used for experiments which kill them, and they are not objects which can be disposed of on the whim of another individual.”

Human Life is sacred and Campaign Life Coalition will continue in this battle until every life is protected.

Media contacts:
Gillian Long, Campaign Life Coalition Toronto 416-204-9749
Mary Ellen Douglas, National Organizer CLC Kingston ON 613-389-4472
Karen Murawsky, Director, Public Affairs Office, CLC Ottawa 613-729-0379