National Pro-Life Conference: Day 2 (Part 2)

Getting the pro-life message out - we've had several speakers who shared their experience with us.

First was Yvonne Dumont from Pro-Life BC. She told us about the ad campaign to change public opinion in the province; how their billboard and ad campaign reach people who can't be reached otherwise. The seeds are planted and the message is delivered to the people: while there are unwanted pregnancies, there are no unwanted children!

Yvonne mentioned the group website - www.optionsbc.com. While Yvonne believes they could've achieved better results - abortions are down in BC. The statistics shows 1350 less abortions performed in BC compared to the peak in 2002. That's 1350 babies that were saved.

Then Stephanie Gray gave us the overview of her strategy to make abortion unthinkable. She suggested we look back at the historic human rights movements and see what contributed to their success, so the pro-life movement could benefit from their experience. Want to know what made let's say the abolitionists movement and later - the civil rights movement so successful in achieving their goals? They dramatized the injustice with shocking imagery. They campaigned on that imagery. They were ready to face persecution. And they succeeded. Therefore, that should be the strategy of the pro-life movement.

Stephanie dedicated a lot of time to address the concerns that confronting the culture of death visually is often regarded as "disturbing"; and that the images of aborted babies could be viewed by the children. If there is an injustice going on, would your primary concern be about hiding it from the children or about ending the injustice itself? Abortion thrives on the same notion which led to the Holocaust - that there are lives unworthy of living. So when our opponents hide that by using the word "choice", we have no other choice (yep!) except showing the people what is being "chosen".

A video, which Stephanie showed us, gave a clear picture not only of what's being done to babies under the name of choice, but that abortion is also a number 1 cause for the infant death in Canada. About 3000 children die each year from accidents and illnesses. Abortion claims over 100,000 lives.