A massive 15,000 people took part in a March for Life in Ottawa, Canada, on Thursday of last week. Amongst the crowd were Archbishop Prendergast of Ottawa, Bishop de Angelis of Peterborough, and Archbishop Gerald Lacroix of Quebec City and Primate of Canada, to mention just a few.Also present during the March was a significant group of Eastern Rite clergy and lay people, together with groups such as Silent no More and others. The huge crowd gathered at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, where they were addressed by a number of eminent speakers in the world of pro-life.
The blog, Socon or Bust, –- gives a great account of the occasion, together with quite a few photographs which give an excellent picture of the atmosphere of the day. It is well worth a visit.
The blogger writes that: ‘The fact is that abortion is the most important issue of our time. People of faith and family know it. Our opponents know it. The only people who refuse to acknowledge it are the politicians who give us lame excuses that we should not be re-opening this debate, as if this issue was a settled issue. Well, the reality is it’s not settled. …’
Indeed, those words could very well be applied to many other countries. In Ireland, for example, a coalition of pro-abortion groups – Amnesty International, Irish Family Planning Association, etc., – has recently compiled a report, ostensibly on human rights in this country, and has already submitted their report for consideration to the UN Universal Periodic Review committee, which will be ‘examining’ the situation in relation to human rights in Ireland, next October. However, the authors have incorporated the names of various organisations in the report, describing them as ‘endorsers’ of the report. But the report carries a very definite ‘recommendation’ to the UN that Ireland should abandon her Constitutional protection of unborn children and make provision for abortions to be carried out in Ireland. It now appears that a number of the organisations whose endorsement of the report is indicated thereoin were not aware that their name had been hijacked by the pro-abortion lobby, and one by one these organisations have been – thankfully – withdrawing their support for the report, following a request from pro-life groups and members of the public that they should do so.
