OTTAWA, ON, May 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A massive crowd of pro-life demonstrators, the majority of whom were youth, gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa today to issue a call to legislators and Canadians as a whole to put an end to abortion in Canada. An estimate given by a police officer to Campaign Life Coalition president Jim Hughes was that a record-breaking crowd of 8,000 people participated in this 11th annual March for Life. Several other crowd-counters came up with almost identical numbers, making the 2008 March the largest March in the history of the pro-life event.
Ottawa Sun suggests there were only 7000 participants. The actual number, as counted by Campaign Life Coalition president Jim Hughes (who stood with a clicker counting marchers) was 7,800. That's about 800 more than last year's record numbers. John Pacheco posted the live blog coverage of the March at SoCon Or Bust, along with some of pictures.
Uninvited guest speakers
And here's a report from the March by Deborah Gyapong. Among other things she mentions a handful of militant pro-aborts that came to disrupt the rally. See for yourself how patient and respectful those uninvited guest speakers were to their opponents (especially - to women that had made the "choice" they promote) and how convincing their arguments are:
There were a handful of young fascist anarchist types, chanting "Take your rosaries off our ovaries" and trying to drown out the speakers. Dressed all in black, ugly, pierced tongues and the like, hair dyed black....made me wish I had a crucifix and some holy water... As they were leaving they were chanting something about getting rid of Christians, "not enough abortions." That's hate, folks. Lord have mercy on their souls.A quick blurb in the media. If anything at all.
Was it me not paying attention or did The National completely ignore the March For Life? All we've got is a 5-second blurb in the local news.
An anniversary to remember
The March For Life is usually held on the second Thursday of May to commemorate Canada's day of infamy - May 14, 1969, the day when Trudeau's "omnibus bill" became law. This year the March took place on May 8th - the Victory in Europe Day. Let's take a moment to remember all those who fought on the battlefields, all those who gave their lives to defeat the Nazism. Let them be the inspiration to us all as we fight another murderous ideology which denies the right to life to unborn babies.
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