The Editor:
Each spring, Campaign Life Coalition organizes a March for Life in Ottawa. The purpose of this event is to demand legal protection for pre-born Canadian babies. There is no law in Canada governing abortion. Pre-born babies can be and are aborted at any time and for any reason during the entire nine months of pregnancy.
Each year some 110,000 pre-born babies in Canada lost their lives through abortion.
On May 12 this year approximately 22,000 people of all ages marched on Parliament Hill not only to demand legal protection for pre-born children but also to ask MPs to vote against state-sponsored killing of people at the other end of life, via the Liberal government’s euthanasia Bill C-14.
While I’m sure the mainstream media in Ottawa covered this event, I was astonished that I could not find any report on CTV or the CBC. Perhaps I didn’t look hard enough. However, I can’t help but believe that had that been 22 refugees wanting protection, or 11 transexuals worrying about which bathroom to use, or perhaps one disgraced senator demanding his back pay, the words “breaking news,” would have been plastered all over the TV screen with reporters covering every imaginable angle.
But 22,000 protesting the killing of pre-born babies — nary a whisper.
I believe this is censorship at its finest. It doesn’t matter which side of this issue a person stands, we should all be appalled. I certainly am.
Colleen Reed
Kenosee Lake, Sask.
