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Life for All. Love for All.
April 27, 2007
URGENT: Please come to the March for Life at the Legislature May 10
Dear Friend of NB Children and Mothers,
I would like to underline the importance of strong participation by pro-life supporters and their families at the upcoming March for Life in Fredericton. This event will be held in front of the Legislature on Thursday, May 10, beginning at 12 noon. Our theme is "More Babies, Fewer Abortions." Former MP Elsie Wayne, Bishop Valery Vienneau of Bathurst, and other speakers will address us. Please see the attached flyer for more information.
I appeal to you, dear friend, to join us. I know this will be a sacrifice of precious time, especially if you must travel a distance. But this has to do with a matter of life or death for countless children in this province.
The success of the March is urgent, because right now the supporters of abortion on putting on a big push in New Brunswick. They are pushing hard for two things:
(1) They are lobbying the government to remove all restrictions against publicly funded abortion on demand at all hospitals and private clinics. Right now there are some restrictions - abortions are not done in most hospitals, and the government does not pay for abortions at the Morgentaler clinic. If these restrictions are taken away, instead of 1,000 babies a year killed from abortion - which happens at present - we could face 2,000 or 3,000 a year! And we’d be paying Morgentaler to do this kind of thing! And all of our regional hospitals would be ending innocent lives!
(2) They are trying to take away the freedom of pro-life people to protest against abortion! They are lobbying the government for a new "bubble zone" law banning any form of peaceful protest near hospitals, clinics or doctor’s offices. They are making false accusations against pro-life people like me - saying we break the law and represent a danger for public safety. They not only seek to get rid of the unborn who have no voice, they want to stop anyone who tries to be their voice!
Please if at all possible make time in your busy schedule to be with us on May 10. We need a BIG crowd to show the politicians - who will undoubtedly be there to observe us - that the people of New Brunswick choose life, we are not for the killing of innocent children, we are for peace not violence!!! The politicians count heads, and a pro-life MLA has told us - be sure to have a big crowd! I know people are coming from several parts of the province, we need more!
Thank you very much for giving this matter your serious consideration. Please pass this on to your friends and family, church etc. (Bulletin notice below) On behalf of the littlest ones and their moms, bless you!
Yours for life and love,
Peter Ryan, Executive Director
16 comments:
Do these pretentious pricks have nothing better to do then to stick their noses into other peoples business? Do these people believe that they are so morally stable that they have the right to tell people how to live their lives? Half of them probably just want to have more babies around so they have more children to molest down the road.
Maybe, just maybe, if they spent more of their time helping those in need the world would be a better place. It's not about being pro-life or pro-choice, it's about being pro-mind-your-own-damned-business.
Since it was a long one? I let the bad word slide in there....
Please watch the language....
Merci!!!
Mr Ryan, until you grow a uterus, you have no right to tell women what to do with their own bodies.
you people make me sick... its everyones own choice so let them make it....
I've read in this very blog before people who are pro-abortion saying that those who are against abortion like to name call. Having not been at the Morgentaler Abortuary myself, maybe that's true but whenever I read on blogs or letters to the editor the name calling exclusively comes from pro-abortionists as seen above (although the first comment is REALLY poor, maybe the worst I've ever read.).
While both sides are admittedly far apart and there really isn't much middle ground, I supect there can be some mutual and civil discourse.
Personally I'm doubtful the law will ever change but the day everyone stops caring about babies being aborted by being dismembered or mummified in the womb, is the day I have great concerns for our society.
Hey, the people who posted the above comments: definitely come with me to counter-protest tomorrow!! I will be there with bells on - would never miss a crazy parade!
PS Charles I see you were lurking around taking pictures yesterday - just wanna say thanks for respecting the privacy of the women going in. :)
"anon wrote, ...those who fight for womens rights are rude is just silly."
Read the above comments including pedgehog which I'm a bit disappointed in. She usually comes off as pretty respectful in this debate but "crazy parade" isn't that.
Interesting comments, I'll wait for Spinks to blog it for the 'big' debate. But so what if there is name calling? Spinks tries to make it sound as though because one poster calls another names that somehow their position is less viable. There were people calling the judge many names after the Depres trial, does that mean that the Fulton family doesn't have a point, or even the correct point? Not at all.
However, people are not so far apart as Spinks likes to believe. Like most issues, this is a huge issue and can't be just an 'eithor or' one.
One HUGE issue is usually overlooked, namely, that New Brunswick is breaking federal law with its current procedures. That's a pretty big issue. How can you get upset at protestors or in fact, anybody else breaking the law when your provincial government acts openly as a criminal organization? It may be the case that many are HAPPY that they break federal law because they don't like the law.
Well, by that reasoning ATV riders will be perfectly within their rights to ignore provincial law about their kids on ATV's for precisely the same reasoning. There is that 'anarchy' that Spinks is so fond of fear mongering-unless its the kind of anarchy he likes.
The 'rule of law' doesn't ONLY exist because you've got a police force to back it up, although that is a good part of it. Laws have to make sense, they have to be defensible. A government breaking federal laws is a BIG issue people. Likewise, when Irving wipes out a species or breaks an environmental law all they have to claim is "well, we're only doing what the government does".
But what kind of names are those parents of ATV riders going to be called when their kids are arrested for riding illegally? They may be called every name in the book, but thats irrelevant.
Next, keep in mind that many of these same people who protest abortion are the same ones who protest against more and better sex education in the classroom. Not to pick on Spinks too much, but that's always been his line, that 'abstinence' isn't pushed ENOUGH, even though its such a basic fact that it hardly needs a mention (which it does get). Studies from all over show that the more and better education that is offered, the fewer abortions.
There are many that think a 'baby' exists as soon as a sperm and egg meet. That's hard to prove, but thats hardly the same as a foetus. And yet there is much protest against even the 'morning after' pill. That doesn't involve ANY mummifying or violence. And yet there are DOCTORS who will refuse to prescribe it, and thanks to NB policies a woman can't even go to another doctor! So this is hardly a 'two sided' argument, more like a two hundred sided.
Since Spinks has a blog and makes his opinion public we can use that as a reference. His latest is to bemoan the fact that the 'free market' should be deciding people's wages. So if a woman gets pregnant and can no longer go to school and has to work part time or a shift job at McDonalds, it should be up to McDonalds what she is paid. Of course that is the current system, and its no surprise that if you are a single woman then you are three times more likely to live in poverty. No wonder women get abortions, go live in poverty for awhile and see how you like it. WHen people talk about guilt over an abortion, there is also the constant guilt of not being able to provide for a child as well as the multitude of societal factors involved in that.
Much of Spinks blog is aimed at penny pinching, meaning, taxpayers shouldn't have any more increases even though New Brunswickers pay the lowest percentage of their budget from income tax in the country, and even though the rates are the lowest in the maritimes.
This penny pinching has an effect, and the government knows it, which is why people on welfare, particularly mothers, are trapped in poverty. Of course that issue isn't clear cut either since as mentioned before, the richest 10% of New Brunswickers are the richest 10% of any province in the country. So for taxes, you can also hit up the people who have the most money. This government had an increase that was highest for the middle class and lowest for low income, followed by the wealthiest, but the result is as predicted, that people will continue to shout 'no tax increases'.
So from all that, what we see is that the 'conservative ideology' is what helps perpetuate the problem, rather than solve it. There is a valid point to be made that IF people are paying for abortions then they are morally culpable-thats true, but its not the case in New Brunswick.
This protest is only about PERCEIVED threats, and isn't focused on the fact that the province is breaking federal law. It is aimed only at ensuring that the province CONTINUES to break that law.
Although there is also the freedom of speech right, however, nobody has said that is going to become law, it hasn't even been made a first draft. Interesting that lots of people at this blog have no problem taking away speech rights from protestors protesting the self sufficiency task force. We'll see if that remains consistent. After all, these people are 'trouble makers', and one woman was even arrested, so the same holds for this group as it does for Asaf and his friends.
(keep in mind before people jump to conclusions that I don't favour restricting speech rights of anybody, the above analogy is just to make a point)
i hope that some of these protesters who defend the unborn don't forget that life doesn't end with birth. if you're gonna be that bold with a sign, i hope you're bold enough to adopt some babies & help some single mothers. stretch your compassion beyond a law.
unfortunately, most pro-choicers act as if abortion is about "minding-your-own-damn-business" and "you're-not-the-boss-of-my-body". newsflash: abortion is usually an agonizing and desperate choice by women who feel they have no other option. reading the pro-choice comments here, geez guys ... develop some compassion! women are more than just bodies with fetuses.
i think both groups should smarten up and try to find solutions to reduce the abortion rate by focusing on teen pregnancy, adoption reform and better support for low-income women.
cuzzin raincheck
Why is abortion bad? Really. How is it immoral to stop a life without consciousness from having to experience the hurt and agony of life?
Spinks, just to clarify - I didn't mean "crazy parade" as in a parade of crazies. I use crazy to mean something more along the lines of exciting or off the hook. Sorry if it came off as disrespectful. I agree that there needs to be less name-calling and more respect in this debate.
3:32 - because it's murder
for anon 3:32
Why is abortion good?
Really. How is it moral to stop a life with very immature & undeveloped consciousness from having experienced the love, beauty and pleasures of life?
cuzzin raincheck
I really get a kick out of these so-called that think that they can be permisquis and mess around without any responsability to anything or, anyone that might be affected. Incase you do not understand read your bible it states that you are not your own, you were bought with a price. That price was the life and blood of the only Begotten Son of God.
You did not create yourself, so you don't belong to yourself. You were created by a supreme being Known as God who sent his only Son, Die on a Cruel Cross, so he and he alone Owns you no one else not evben you, you were bought and purchased with the most precious blood of Christ.
THe bible was written two centuries ago and more. It is no more true than the Bhagavad Gita, the Quran, The Book of Mormon or The Book f the dead. It may be true for you and other christians, but thats all.
Since you don't grasp basic biology Michael, you only have to have sex once with one person to get pregnant. Your assumption that all women who get abortions are promiscuous is rude and ignorant. And even if they are, what business is it of yours? Women are promiscuous while men are just playing the field or sowing their oats.
Michael, do you consider a woman who became pregnant by rape to also be promiscuous? How about a married woman whose birth control failed?
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