Educating for Life
2012 Issue 2
Letters 4 Life!
p. 7
Humanophobia:
Keeping universal human nature
“out of sight, out of mind” p. 4
toronto right to life educates hundreds of students
through two youth conferences!
Toronto Right to Life (via”Student Life Link”, an initiative of TRL and the National Campus Life Network) held its 3rd Annual
Respect for Life Student Leadership Conference for high school students in the Toronto area on May 1st, at St. Michael’s
College of the University of Toronto. This year, however, TRL also sponsored a 2nd youth conference in the neighboring York
school region. When we learned that the students of the St. Therese of Lisieux Secondary School (Richmond Hill, Ontario)
Social Justice Club were working on holding a similar conference for the schools in their district, TRL/Student Life Link stepped
in with technical, speaker, and other support, which resulted in a total of approximately 400 students being informed and
inspired on the Right to Life of all human beings, without exception, without conditions, and without qualifications. Following
is an article on these two conferences written by the editor of The Interim, a national pro-life newspaper, which appeared in
the June edition (reprinted with permission).
Getting the pro-life message to high school students
contents
By Paul Tuns
Getting the Pro-Life Message to
High School Students
1
Two recent events brought the pro-life message to hundreds of Toronto area high
school students, educating students to become conversant on the issue of abortion
and inspiring them to become more involved in the issue.
Youth Establishes Pro-Life
Club at her High School
4
TRL Helps Schools Start
Pro-Life Clubs!
5
NEW Student Club Manual
5
Ontario Teen’s Bold Pro-Life
Project: Letters 4 Life
6
Humanophobia
7
Pro-Life News
10
TRL Events
11
On May 15, about 200 students from St. Theresa of Lisieux High School in Richmond
Hill, north of Toronto, attended a one-day in-school series of workshops organized by
the school’s Social Justice Council, which was sponsored by Toronto Right to Life and
Student Life Link. Fr. Tom Lynch gave the keynote address and Student Life Link’s Lia
Mills, Angelina Steenstra of Silent No More Awareness Campaign, and Blaise Alleyne
President of Toronto Right to Life joined Golob in addressing the workshops.
TRL Contests
12
Continued on page 2
Toronto Right to Life Association joined the University of Toronto Students for Life,
the Toronto Catholic District School Board, and Student Life Link to host the Respect
for Life Student Leadership Conference for Toronto-area Catholic high school students on May 1 at St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto, attended by
more than 200 students. There, students from about a dozen schools, heard broadcaster and Interim columnist Michael Coren, Rebecca Richmond and Theresa Gilbert from NCLN, Jonathon Van Maren of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform,
Alissa Golob of Campaign Life Coalition Youth, and Debbie Fisher of Toronto Right to
Life and the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, amongst other speakers.
Right to Life Association of Toronto and Area 120 Eglinton Ave. East, Suite 302 Toronto, ON M4P 1E2
Tel: 416-483-7869
Website: www.righttolife.to Email: office@righttolife.to
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heart of the issue describing the pro-life position: the intentional killing of an innocent human being is wrong, abortion kills an innocent human being, therefore abortion is
wrong. She said that “if abortion is not the killing of a human being, no justification is necessary but if abortion is the
killing of a human being, no justification is sufficient.” She
addressed specific justifications typically offered for abortion – the SLED arguments based on Size, Level of development, Environment, and Degree of dependency – and said
none of those arguments would justify killing a newborn or
other human being so they cannot be used to justify killing
an unborn child. She told the students, “it is not enough
to believe pro-life, you have to do things to challenge the
culture.”
Theresa Matters urged students to be bold, saying “when the
country is on fire we need to grab hoses, not buckets.” She
said high school students are an important voice because
15 per cent of abortions are carried out on high school students. Furthermore, she said “future leaders need to hear
the pro-life message from their peers.”
Debbie Fisher recounted her abortion experience and said
she “would have kept my baby if I knew it had feet and fingers.” She described the pro-life message as one of “mercy
and hope” and urged the students to share it as widely as
possible.
CCBR’s Van Maren talked about the effective use of graphic
images in past social reforms and how they are part of the
box of tools pro-lifers can use to educate the broader public. He said “public policy won’t change until public opinion
changes,” using the example of William Wilberforce who
showed images of beaten slaves and the reality of slave
ships to move England toward banning the slave trade.
Top (l-r): Michael Coren (Keynote Speaker), Debbie Fisher
Second row (l-r): Rebecca Richmond, Theresa Gilbert
Third row (l-r): Alissa Golob, Jonathon Van Maren
Coren told the students assembled at St. Michael’s College
it was “a big problem that Catholic schools that should be
universally pro-life are not,” but added that abortion is not
just a religious issue. He said science shows there is only
one definition of human life and that it begins at conception. He said “choice doesn’t trump the right to life” and
said the problem is not that the unborn have no voice, but
rather “we are too complacent.”
The other speakers taught the students how to be the voice
of the unborn. The NCLN’s Rebecca Richmond got to the
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Fr. Lynch told the students at St. Theresa that if they did not
build a Culture of Life, others would build a different type
of culture. He urged them to build a culture “that will not
abandon the vulnerable, that will not tell people they are
better off dead.”
Blaise Alleyne provided rebuttals to bad pro-abortion arguments and reiterating a point made by the NCLN’s Richmond, urged focusing any discussion on the unborn, using
stories and asking questions to force others to face the implications of their logic. He said that there are four groups
of people involved in every injustice: victims, perpetrators,
by-standers, and defenders. He said victims do not usually
have a choice in what they are, but the roles others play is a
deliberate decision.
Golob told students how they can become involved in pro-
life issues. She urged them to attend conferences, take part
in demonstrations, wear t-shirts, share information online,
pray at 40 Days for Life, and contact their MPs. She said politics is usually boring, “but pro-life politics is never boring.”
She said wearing pro-life t-shirts “open a dialogue.” She said
start discussions about abortion. “We want to talk about
abortion” she said, in order to get people to think about the
issue and challenge the status quo in which nearly 300 unborn children are killed daily in Canada. She said, “It is our
obligation to speak out.”
Mills provided a lesson in pro-life apologetics and Steenstra
recounted her own abortion experience.
Anita Nassr, a staff advisor to the Social Justice Council,
told The Interim when they were planning the event, some
students wanted pro-life to be part of a series of talks that
would also address poverty and homelessness among other
issues. But eventually the students “realized it was a social
justice issue.”
Renata Iskander, a Grade 10 student and co-chair of the
event, has attended the National March for Life the past
two years and invited speakers based on who she heard in
Ottawa in 2011. She told The Interim she was convinced
that many of her fellow students needed to be educated
about life issues and that the council had to raise awareness. “Social justice begins in the womb,” she said. “Other
issues are important, but it starts with the fact that they
need to be born.”
TRL organizes these conferences as well as all our educating, through ongoing projects and new initiatives to
youth, because it sees a flame in the hearts of much of
the upcoming generation that must be kindled into a fiery passion to defend life and to turn the cultural tide in
favor of respect for life. We believe we’re on the verge
of the last and loudest chapter in the pro-life human
rights campaign and that the cultural battle is entering
its climactic phase as we move into the final assault on
the Culture of Death. We are working to help ensure
that our pro-life youth have the moral courage and conviction, the knowledge and leadership skills, and the
adamant determination to endure through all that may
come in the campaign for the ultimate human rights
and social justice issue, to what lies beyond – a Canada
in which all human beings, free from any semantic legal
definitions, and cultural denial in the face of objective
evidence, have the Right to Life.
“There’s a woman here
who regrets her abortion!”
Those were the words spoken by Alex, a grade 12 student, to his friend who was scheduled for a 12:30 abortion on May 15. Incredibly that same day, the Social
Justice Club of St Theresa of Lisieux High School in York
Region where Alex attends school was hosting a pro-life
symposium sponsored by Toronto Right to Life and Student Life Link. When Alex told his teacher Anita Nassr
that his friend was on the bus at that moment to go to
the Morgentaler abortion clinic, Anita begged him to
call her and tell her “Don’t do it!” From there everything unfolded as God had planned. When they spoke
she felt she had no other choice and was not about to
change her mind. That’s when he told her that there
was a woman at the school who said she regretted her
abortion. Those words unlocked the door to her heart
and she asked “Why?” She agreed to speak with me and
I asked her what she needed the most at that moment.
The answer was support. SUPPORT! Within an hour of
our conversation, she and her friend Michelle had been
picked up by Alex and were walking through the doors
of St Theresa of Lisieux to speak with me.
God brought a courageous young man, the teachers and
students of St Theresa of Lisieux, Silent No More Awareness, The Sisters of Life, Toronto Right to Life, prayer and
most importantly love and support together that day to
help a young girl who was making a ‘choice’ because she
felt she had ‘no choice’. Four days after the symposium
I watched in awe with tears in my eyes as that young
woman witnessed her baby’s heart beating at their first
ultrasound. Baby will be arriving around Dec 18th and
Mommy couldn’t be happier. Praise God for His Gift of
Life and the ‘team’ He organized to save two lives on
May 15th.
Debbie Fisher
Toronto Right to Life Speaker
Debbie Fisher (second from the right) with speakers and students of
St. Therese of Lisieux High School at the Social Justice Conference
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High School Student
Sets Outstanding
Example for Youth
by Getting Pro-Life
Club Established
at Her School
By Paul Klotz
S
carborough, Ontario - Claire Caluag, an 11th grade
student at Francis Libermann High School is one of
many thousands of pro-life secondary school students
in Canada. But although she shares the belief in the
Right to Life as the foremost human rights and social
justice issue, with many peers in her age group, Claire
has, in a sense, distinguished herself among them.
She DID something about it. Claire, with no prompting from others, decided to make a difference at her
school and contribute to building the Culture of Life in
her capacity, by deciding to try to start a pro-life club at
her school. Contacting Toronto Right to Life indirectly,
via the website of “Student Life Link”, TRL’s high school
pro-life club connection project (www.studentlifelink.
ca), she expressed her vision of starting a club, and
requested assistance. Knowing that the club would
need a sponsoring teacher, she approached Ryan
D’Souza, who brainstormed some ideas with her. TRL
responded to Claire’s email and arranged a meeting
between Ryan, Paul Klotz (TRL Executive Director), and
Rebecca Richmond, Executive Director of the National
Campus Life Network (which collaborates with TRL in
pro-life club formation and projects), in which details
of the benefits and procedures of starting a pro-life
club were discussed. Claire further showed her leadership by collecting the names of a sufficient number
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of interested students, which no doubt required some
inspiring on her part. The names and plan were presented to the Vice Principal, and within a matter of a
few weeks, Francis Libermann Secondary School had
one of the first official high school pro-life clubs in the
Toronto area. In a time when youth are under more
pressure than ever before to assimilate into the hollow dead-end self-absorbtion of the contemporary
pro-”choice” popular culture, taking a stand for a cause
or issue which flies in the face of it takes courage. It
takes a mature indifference to and setting aside what is
“cool” or “uncool.” To Claire, the other life-supporting
youths whose proactive initiaves we are highlighting in
this newsletter, and all those who are building up the
pro-life momentum toward turning the cultural tide,
what is most important is the universal recognition
that all human beings have equal and inherent worth
and dignity. What Claire Caluag has accomplished is
even more significant because she is the first student
we know of who single-handedly seized this type of
initiative on her own, and followed her vision through
until it became a reality. She reflects great credit upon
herself, Francis Libermann Secondary School, and the
whole Canadian pro-life youth Community.
Congratulations Claire! We are extremely proud of
you.
toronto Right to Life
Helps Schools Start
Pro-Life Clubs!
By Paul Klotz
A s a result of its activity in pro-life education
among the high school age group, and outreach via Student Life Link and TRL’s Student Club Manual, Toronto
Right to Life (with the collaboration of the National
Campus Life Network), in this last school semester
has successfully helped several high schools in the Toronto area establish official pro-life clubs: Notre Dame
(Toronto), St. Joan of Arc (Mississauga) and Francis
Libermann (Scarborough). Several other Toronto area
schools are in the process of establishing clubs with
the assistance of Toronto Right to Life, Student Life
Link, and the National Campus Life Network. Because
this is the generation that is going to take our great historical campaign to the finish line, we need to form the
students before they go into the university or working
world environment, where pro-life views are often, if
not usually, met with much bitter opposition and insidious counter-influence, which overcome so many
young hearts and minds. And more than just instilling
the determination to put an end to the wreckage and
path of self-destruction and insanity disrespect for life
has placed Canada on, we must inspire and empower
them with the heroic courage, hope and confidence,
and fiery resolve that they will need to endure through
the final phase of the cause for Life, beyond the light
of a positive future when the Right to Life for all has
finally been secured.
Toronto Right to Life is available and ready to assist any
student and school who wishes to bring pro-life awareness, education and action into their schools.
Check out our
New & Improved
Student Club Manual
Hey students (and teachers)! Do you want to want to
do something to help make a difference in the way our
culture values life? Why not start at your own school!
Starting a pro-life club at your high school is a rewarding
challenge that can raise awareness among your peers or
students about the equal worth and dignity of all human
life.
The Toronto Right to Life Association and the National
Campus Life Network have put together a great resource
for you. This latest edition includes a bonus resource on
summer pro-life activism and new photos of thriving high
school clubs in Canada. Student manuals are $10 each,
including postage.
Please contact TRL at (416) 483-7869
to order your copy today!
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ontario teen’s
bold pro-life
Sending 100,000 Letters
to the Prime Minister of Canada
speaking out against abortion
A
lexandra Jezierski is a gentlemannered 17-year old girl, with
a positive attitude and relaxed
demeanor. Yet when it comes to
her pro-life feelings and convictions, she is what we hope all our
pro-life youth to be: a lion. Alexandra is another example of a
pro-life youth hero who “doesn’t
just talk the talk but walks the
walk”... she doesn’t just know
and believe, but DOES.
On March 25th, the International Day of the Unborn,
Alexandra launched “Letters4Life”, an ambitious campaign
to speak out against the inhumanity of abortion (which is
legally permitted to run completely wild in Canada - unrestricted, tax-funded, and on-demand, for all nine months of
pregnancy) to the Prime Minister and to all of Canada. Why
100,000? Because approximately 100,000 innocent and
helpless unborn children’s lives come to a tragically premature end, undeniably brutal and barbaric, even before they
get to see their mama’s face, before they ever get to experience a single tangible expression of love from another
human being.
“Writing letters in defence of pre-born babies is something
everyone can and should do,” said Alexandra. “It’s been
so exciting seeing how many people, especially youth, are
joining the campaign as their first step in the pro-life movement. I think a lot of us are or have been in the situation
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project:
by paul klotz
where we hold onto very pro-life beliefs, but that’s all they
are, convictions, because some of us have no idea where to
start when it comes to actually getting involved. I know that
recently, I was in that situation. It’s amazing how even the
simplest things we do can actually make a great impact for
the unborn!”
Alexandra has not only come up with and made happen an
incredibly potent initiative, what she has done is even more
brilliant in that her campaign makes it very easy for anyone to do something to support life. Not only is writing and
sending a letter something that the average person can do
easily, she has even included form letters on her website,
www.letters4life.ca, templates that even the busiest person
can quickly use and contribute to the speaking for those
who have yet no voice to defend themselves. Alexandra
has also astutely synchronized her project well with Motion
312, the proposition to re-examine Canada’s 400-year old
definition of “human being” in the Criminal Code, in light
of four centuries of advancement in medical and biological science. The motion, presented for its first hour of debate in April, and met with the predictable bitter opposition
and digressions, is scheduled for its second hour and final
vote in September. Alexandra aims to have 100,000 letters
sent to Prime Minister Harper by then. We encourage all
our friends and members to give her and her campaign our
wholehearted and vigorous support. Well done, Alexandra!
Your idea and enterprise is an outstanding example of the
innovation and courage your generation is capable of and
which will enable you to turn the cultural tide in favor of
respect for life!
H UMANOPHOBIA:
Keeping universal human nature “out of sight, out of mind”
By Paul Klotz
A semi-sarcastic rant prompted by the thought that the humanity of the unborn, undeniably proven by objective medical and
biological science, remains a subject of censorship, militant avoidance, provocation of anger, and flat out denial in the face of
glaring evidence and diamond-hard proof . Motion 312, presented to Parliament on April 26, 2012 by Conservative MP Stephen
Woodworth (Kitchener Centre) calls for a review of Canada’s 400 year old definition of “human being” in the Canadian Criminal
Code, based on 4 centuries of scientific and medical advancement. This simple request to consider if the law is consistent with
today’s empirical knowledge was met with immediate opposition, angst and animosity from the pro-”choice” community, and
even a promise by PM Harper to vote against it. If a suggestion to consider whether unbiased science proves the definition wrong
is met with such recoiling, it begs the question: What are they so afraid of ?
“MORE WOLFS-BANE, VAN
HELSING? HA HA HA...”
“SOMETHING MUCH MORE
EFFECTIVE, COUNT...”
“Living in the dark ages” has become a favorite mainstream
colloquial jab, usually reserved for those who are seen to
cling to “outdated” , “intolerant”, or “narrow-minded”social
and moral ideologies. In the so-called “dark ages” of western history, the popular culture indeed had many fears and
beliefs which are now clearly seen as baseless. Objectively
speaking, their origins stemmed from the sheer ignorance
of more primitive times. Yet now this expression is increasingly being associated with modes of thought and attitudes
prevalent even as recently as 40 to 50 years ago, when
clouds of a new kind of cultural darkness began to appear.
Disrespect for human life was certainly nothing new and had
taken many varying forms and paths throughout history, yet
there was something disturbingly different and unprecedented that began to take shape around this time. It was no
longer generally a consequential result of such things as the
lack of common education, the desires of isolated groups
and influential individuals which sought power over others
in periods when survival left only the choices of dominate
or be dominated, or of political movements which were
“AN ULTRASOUND IMAGE!”
“NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
TAKE IT AWAY!!!!!!!”
comparatively limited in geographical scope and universal
acceptance. For the first time, the concept of intrinsic human worth and dignity began to disintegrate across the entire social spectrum - in the institutions of higher education,
in the political systems and press, in the workplace, even
in families and among all age groups that could grasp what
was being accepted - and to devolve more rapidly than ever
before. A distinct line formed, separating the age of disrespect for life from the rest of human history. Indeed, those
who embraced the descent of respect for life now see the
former period as “the dark ages” and those who see all human life as sacred are considered to still be living in them
and wanting to return society to them.
“Enlightenment” from the Contemporary
Perspective
What is considered to be “enlightenment” about the nature
of human life is that it is no longer beyond the reach of human control, but humanity’s “progress” has now enabled
it to take full ownership and control over it. Humankind is
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“And now we are truly in a dark age,
indeed darker than any that ever
existed. For in all former ages, there
never existed such a widespread and
commonly embraced, willful
supression of knowledge in the full
face of inescapable fact, visible to the
eye, audible to the ear, and
immediately and completely apparent
and evident to the intellect.”
now breaking itself free of the bonds of absolutes, moral
codes and institutions which have dictated to it in all former
ages rather than being dictated over. It is asserting itself
over all. The value and inherent dignity of human life is
now variable, conditional, and subject to the will and even
whims of the individual. We have become “liberated” from
the restrictive and moralistic past. Birth has become, and
now death is becoming the sovereign and exclusive property of those who are able to determine the life or death
of the human or pre-human being. We now even have the
nifty ability to determine who is human and when! Currently, in Canada, nobody is legally considered a human being until they have been born. In other countries, “pre-humans” become human at varying points in utero. Humanity,
you see, is a matter of legal definition, up to the will of the
governments and popular vote country by country, and not
a matter of empirical, objectively undeniable scientific fact.
Isn’t that convenient? No guilt, no responsibility, no selfsacrificing, no moralizing by anyone or any institution placing restrictions on our moral autonomy!
Contemporary Culture’s Greatest Fear
“Going back to the dark ages” from the contemporary view,
would be the result of embracing the concept of respect
for all human life, that human life is indeed sacred, that its
sacredness is an absolute (which would mean that there are
absolutes) and the recognition that all humans are human.
The universal humanity, of all born humans and their unborn offspring, then, is something that must be avoided at
all costs. It must be ignored, hidden, denied, suppressed,
oppressed, silenced, swept under the rug, kept “out of
sight, out of mind.” Should that concept be acknowledged,
however slightly, it would endanger the Autonomy of the
Will which has become the god of the mainstream popular culture. It would mean a return to subordination to the
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unmuffled voice of conscience, it would mean more self-denial, more placing others before ourselves, possible limits
on career expansion, and all kinds of other abhorrent, unthinkable things. Acknowledging the humanity of the unborn would mean (gasp!) the ending of unrestricted abortion on demand! We can’t have that! Is it any surprise,
that ultrasound images are reacted to by the pro-”choice”
community as Dracula reacted to Van Helsing’s cross? Is it
any wonder that the abortion debate remains a forbidden
subject to touch in Parliament, even though it raises questions about the reality of Freedom of Speech in Canada? Or
that pro-life student clubs at many Canadian universities are
harassed and banned? It is paramount, you know, that every appearance be made to give Canadians the impression
that legalized abortion is accepted and is a “settled issue.”
The media does its part in this very well. Public transportation and city advertising authorities do too.
The Parliamentary session concerning MP Woodworth’s introduction of Motion 312 on April 26 consisted of his presentation followed by a hailstorm of scoffing and bitter responses. Conservative Government Whip Gordon O’Connor
remarked that “Society has moved on” (from what? Acknowledging that the unborn are human? Wasn’t that the
question implied in the Motion?), the motion was called
“dangerous” (to whom?) by the Abortion Rights Coalition
of Canada (www.arcc-cdac.ca/m312.html), and its founder
and Executive Director, Joyce Arthur, has other rather panic-stricken words for this “ignorant affront to global human
rights standards” and the possible ultimate outcome of facing the facts about the nature of our not yet born members
of the human species:
“If even one abortion restriction is ever passed in Canada,
no matter how seemingly minor, the anti-choice movement
will use it as a toehold to pass more restrictions, and it will
be much easier to do the second time around. We can never
give them an inch.”
“The campaign against Motion 312 is not so much about
defeating the bill (although that still needs to happen so we
shouldn’t be complacent). It’s about showing the strength
and determination of the pro-choice and women’s movement in Canada in order to discourage and set back Canada’s anti-choice movement.”
Mr. Woodworth made the objectively accurate statement
that good laws are based on facts. FACTS. Is the current
definition in the Criminal Code based on FACTS? If so, what
facts? A refusal to answer this question and face the issue,
or dodging or hiding from it by trying to digress and turn it
into a question about abortion “rights” means that there is
fear (or knowledge) that these may not be FACTS at all. For-
get the abortion question for one minute. Are the unborn
human or not, and if not, prove it. If you can’t prove it, then
the LAW IS NOT BASED ON FACTS!
Motion 312 has exposed the great Canadian
travesty of the willful social denial of
objective fact
Woodworth’s Motion, attempted to be trampled into oblivion by the abortion-supporting community, has served at
least one significant purpose for now. Canadians, whether they want to acknowledge it or not, are seeing that to
the pro-”choice” community, FACTS are not what is important. What is important is that abortion be kept legal at
all possible costs and no law that could protect the unborn
in any way, shape, or form, can ever be permitted. Even if
that means the allowance, by lack of law, that a “fetus” can
be aborted in the eighth month (despite the fact that even
pro-”choice” supporters cringe at such a thought); even if it
means sex-selective abortions are allowed to run wild and
completely unrestricted; even if it means the murderer of a
woman who is stabbed in the abdomen (Aysun Sesen, 2007)
and dies along with her 7-month old child, who was born
dead, is charged with only one count of homocide, because
under the law “a child” (actual word used in the Criminal
Code) is not considered to be a human being until they have
been born (alive). Proposed laws that could have provided
increased protection to pregnant women from deadly assault (C-302 “Unborn Victims of Crime” bill, 2008), or reduced coerced or forced abortions (Roxanne’s Law, 2009)
have been shot down despite their obvious protection of
women for the sake of the paranoid obsession of having
abortion “rights” in Canada that run free, wild, and completely unrestricted. Within the last year, a woman in Alberta who strangled her newborn child and callously tossed
her tiny corpse over the fence, walked out of court having to
do no jail time, while another young woman was slammed
with 6 months in jail from an enraged judge in Ontario for
entering abortion clinic grounds and counseling women
against having abortions. Let all of Canada see! We are a
country involved in a national game of make-believe, a culture of adults deliberately covering our eyes and ears from
sheer scientific fact and trying to drown out the voice of
truth and conscience with digressions ranging from talk of
“rights” to “safety” to “health” to “every child being a wanted child” and so on and on and on... anything but answering
the question: when does a human become human? Even
the question cannot be worded in a way that hides its piercing answer. We have developed the foreboding Orwellian
ability to accept, on a cultural and societal scale, the grand
conscious pretense that 2+2=5.
There are none so blind as those who will not
see
And now we are truly in a dark age, indeed darker than any
that ever existed. For in all former ages, there never existed
such a widespread and commonly embraced, willful supression of knowledge in the full face of inescapable fact, visible
to the eye, audible to the ear, and immediately and completely apparent and evident to the intellect. At no other
time in human history has such a blatantly palpable certainty been evaded, fought, ignored, even detested. Even our
very earliest ancestors, in the most primitive stages of human existence, indeed even the ANIMALS know that their
unborn offspring are alive and are their own, and care for
them as such, and no species, even our own, has until our
time, looked so fully in the face of truth made clear through
milennia of accumulated knowledge and yet ran so cowardly and intently away from fact and reason.
To those who are telling themselves that Motion 312 has
been effectively stamped out and the abortion debate resealed, go ahead - run, hide, duck, dodge, attack, get angry,
digress....the truth about our own nature, that we are human from our first instant of our existence, when our genetic identity and unique traits start unfolding and cells start
forming and dividing, becoming tissues, organs, body parts
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(Continued from page 9 - “Humanophobia”)
with speed and complexity unmatched anywhere in the
universe... and that we are never anything else but human,
cannot be put in a jar with the lid sealed shut and stored
away out of sight and out of mind. The lid is about to burst
from the increasing pressure its been forced against, and
the truth is going to come out louder and more visible than
ever before.
Motion 312 is scheduled for its second hour of debate in
the fall. We must act on this opportunity to increase recognition of the humanity of our unborn. It is time to end
the great denial and avoidance game based on a technical
loophole in the wording of the Criminal Code, which legally
facilitates the termination of nearly 100,000 boys and girls’
lives annually in Canada before they ever get to be held
in the arms of their mothers, who, if they believe in facts
would never agree that the child moving and growing inside
them is some kind of being other than human.
We most urgently encourage all our friends and members
to support Mr. Woodworth’s vital initiative, and write to
your Members of Parliament, telling them of the com-
pletely untenable current definition of “human being” in
the Criminal Code, asking them to leave it in the dust bin
of history where it should have been placed centuries ago.
We are including as attachments to this email, petitions and
letters which you may use, or you may write your own. Including prenatal pictures and facts cited from authoritative
sources, such as gestational milestones like heartbeat, brain
wave activity, pain sensation, breathing, and so on, is highly
recommended. We must end the ducking and dodging of
scientific truth, based on an archaic loophole, which results
in the ending of far, far more human lives every year than
any other possible cause of human death.
The following websites contain more information and
ways to support Motion 312:
www.whenamihuman.com
www.iamahumanbeing.ca
www.letters4life.ca
www.wewantthedebate.com
www.personhood.ca
PRO-LIFE News
CROSSROADS: Taking Steps to Save Lives
Crossroads is a peaceful,
prayerful organization
dedicated to helping
bring about a Culture of
Life in Canada and the
United States. Every
summer, participants
walk across the country
to pray and witness to the dignity and sanctity of all
human life while educating the youth about the prolife movement through parish visits along the way.
The pilgrimage across Canada begins in Vancouver
and concludes in Ottawa on August 10.
The Crossroads team will be in Toronto on July 28th
to 29th so show your support and walk alongside
them in solidarity to end abortion in Canada!
For more information, visit their website:
www.crossroadswalk.com/Schedule/CanadaWalk.asp
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MARCH FOR LIFE 2012
Dark clouds and light rainfall did not dampen the
spirits of thousands of pro-lifers as they gathered for
the Annual March for Life on May 10 in Parliament
Hill. This year proved to be the largest crowd yet
as approximately 19,500 supporters marched along
the streets of Ottawa to proclaim that the abortion
debate is not over yet. Once again, the majority of
young, energetic high school and university students
present at the rally demonstrated their commitment
to being a voice for the defenseless. The future for a
culture of life in Canada is looking bright!
What ’s happening at
Street
Campaign
TRL
TRL
Family Day
Every summer Toronto Right to Life hits the streets to
hand out thousands of information cards that raise
awareness about the tragic costs of abortion.
Volunteers are needed in order for this public outreach
to be successful. Consider joining us for this opportunity to raise public awareness about abortion risks, costs,
and life-affirming alternatives!
STAY TUNED FOR UPCOMING DATES!
Family and friends gathered for an afternoon of fun
at TRL’s Family day on Saturday, June 2nd at Northmount School. This annual event marked the beginning of summer as members of Toronto Right to Life
enjoyed mouth-watering hamburgers, hotdogs and
baked goods while kids had a blast jumping around in
the ever-popular bouncy castle or took part in a variety of crafts. This also gave supporters an opportunity
to learn about some of the pro-life initiatives TRL has
accomplished this year as well as future projects. A
sincere thank you to the staff of Northmount School,
volunteers and for all those who attended!
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TRL Contests
Every
F
I
L
E
Matters
art contest
Today there are many threats to the
value of human life.
Genocide. Euthanasia. Abortion.
But life is beautiful and infinitely valuable.
Show this through your artwork AND YOU MAY WIN:
SPEECH CONTEST
Thank you to all students for your
submissions. Selected participants will
present their speeches at an event in the fall
hosted by Toronto Right to Life.
Event date to be announced.
Please check out our website for updates:
www.righttolife.to
First Prize $200
Second Prize $150
Third Prize $100
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:
November 16, 2012
Please send or drop off your entry to:
Toronto Right to Life Association
120 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 302, Toronto, ON M4P 1E2
To download a release form and for contest rules,
please contact us at:
416-483-7869 /office@righttolife.to / www.righttolife.to
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