Pro Life Mass, Annunciation of the Lord Parish, Ottawa, ON, May 20, 2017

At the lovely reception put on by the CWL

 

Run With Life: Ottawa Citizen agrees to change policy regarding p...

Run With Life: Ottawa Citizen agrees to change policy regarding p...:

I think it's time we insist that newspapers use the word "pro-life" to describe us. Newspapers usually call us "anti-abortion". I took issue with this policy last week when I wrote a letter to the Ottawa Citizen after they changed a letter I wrote where I used "pro-life" to "anti-abortion".

I then contacted the Citizen and explained that I had a big problem with this change.

Then ensued a correspondence between myself and Christina Spencer, the editorial pages editor. She said they would review their policy of using the word "anti-abortion" instead of pro-life" after I explained how unfair this policy was to us, since we call ourselves "pro-life". And that, just like how editors call themselves editors and not "word-changers", we like to be called "pro-life" and not "anti-abortion".

In putting forth our position on calling ourselves "pro-life" I then explained:

"Cardinal Collins never used the word abortion in his homily. He used the words "Sanctity of Life", Gift of Life", "Cause of Life", "March for Life", etc. He also spoke about euthanasia and assisted suicide: our view is much broader than anti-abortion, it is about the sanctity of ALL life: 

"anti-abortion" is not what I wrote and definitely not what I meant. If it is the Citizens policy to use that word instead of the word we use ourselves--and the word I always use--the Citizen is manipulating my/our message. 

For someone to read my letter as it stands, who knows little or nothing about life issues, will believe that I/we call ourselves "anti-abortion" when this is simply untrue, misleading to readers, and unfair to us. 

Surely it is not the Citizen's goal to mislead/misrepresent their readers/letter writers? 

...another argument is this: It is one thing for the OC to use the word "anti-abortion" in articles written by staff members (and I don't agree with this either), but it is another thing entirely to change a letter that I have written to use the word "anti-abortion", when clearly the letter should be in my voice, not in the voice of the OC. And the same goes for Cardinal Collins: I was writing about what he said, it wasn't OC staff writing about what he said."

The Citizen has now agreed that:

"letter-writers should be given their own voices as much as possible, regardless of our other style protocols around the issue. As a result, I’ve gone in to our web file and updated your letter to use the term “pro life” where you used it."

I think this is very good news for us at the Ottawa Citizen. Now we need to educate other newspapers in Canada where this policy is practiced.

Novena Prayer for the Healing of Canada

 

Pro-abortion/pro-euthanasia status quo in our country

I took this excerpt from a really terrific letter to Mayor Watson I read the other day and in spite of these facts, anyone who is against this status quo is treated with great contempt in Canada This hatred was certainly very visible by the actions of our mayor and many city councilors last week during the March for Life

 

“ This is the pro-abortion/pro-euthanasia status quo in our country, that is, that there should be no legal protection at all for children in the womb; that abortion must remain fully funded by the taxpayer; that physicians should be coerced into collaborating with abortion, euthanasia, and assisted suicide against their deeply held religious and/or conscientious convictions; that a violent criminal who assaults a pregnant woman and intentionally kills the baby she did NOT choose to abort should face no consequences for killing her beloved child”

And from the same letter to Mr. Watson

" I  do not know if you failed last Thursday to uphold our freedoms because you personally agree with the pro-abortion/anarchist protesters who intimidated the police into diverting our March. And maybe you personally agree with the seven Councillors who signed the discriminatory letter that contained the lie that access to abortion in Canada is a constitutionally protected right, demanding the pro-life flag be taken down. (In fact, all seven Supreme Court justices in the 1988 Morgentaler decision  http://www.morgentalerdecision.ca/1988-decision/  agreed that the state has an interest in protecting the fetus; they all agreed Parliament could come up with a new abortion law to balance the interests of both women and unborn children).

Mother's Day, May 14th, 2017 at Blessed Sacrament Parish

Official installation of the miraculous pilgrim statue

of Our Lady of the Cape, Queen of Canada,

Mother's Day, May 14th, 2017 at Blessed Sacrament Parish

Ottawa, ON, Canada

Everything was beautiful
Mother Mary is beautiful!

The music from Maryvale Academy was outstanding
and The Ave Maria they sang
was my favourite version of the hymn

scroll down for a short video and photos
from the celebration

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 Information on the

1947 Marian Congress

https://www.catholicincanada.com/

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The Pilgrim Statue Crowning on Mother's Day 2017

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Photos

Below is Father Tremblay

Director of the Cape talking with us by skype

My letter to Mayor Jim Watson

Here is a copy of the document  which prompted Mayor Jim Watson to remove the Pro Life flag at City Hall on May 11, the day of the National March for Life .  Even though this document is a lie,  unbelievably  it was signed by 7 councillors before being  presented  to the mayor. Actually, maybe it’s not so unbelievable since so many of our political  leaders don’t seem to care about truth anymore .  We see it everywhere  and in all levels of government .

 

My letter to the Mayor

May 13, 2017

Dear Mr Watson,

I was very disappointed when you felt you had to apologize for the Pro Life flag being raised at City Hall. You said people complained about it.  Does this mean that if I have a problem with a particular flag that, I can complain about it and you will bring it down ?

Many Canadians believe that there should be restrictions on abortion and a majority of young Canadians say abortions should not be legal after 12 weeks gestation.  This is according to the findings of an Environics poll commissioned in 2013  by Life Canada, the national educational pro-life organization https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/poll-young-canadians-want-to-restrict-abortion-to-12-weeks

I’m sure  Mr. Watson that you are aware that the unborn child is able to feel pain at around 20 weeks gestation . Obviously you are ok with that as well. http://www.gargaro.com/fetalpain.html

  https://www.physiciansforlife.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Fetal-Pain.pdf( the different  methods of abortion are very cruel. I won’t provide links. I think you have an idea )

For the record, would you kindly refer to us as Pro Life?  Thank you.  We believe in the dignity and sanctity of all human life whether born or preborn, regardless of age, sex, race or creed . We are Pro Life!

Currently in Canada the law is that it is ok to kill a child in the womb up until the moment of birth. Obviously you and the 7 councillors are ok with this.

You talk about a woman’s right to choose, which in itself is false because there is no such right to have an abortion in Canada.  But I’m sure you know that too. http://www.morgentalerdecision.ca/1988-decision// If a woman chooses to have a baby and her unborn child is killed through violence  from a spouse or a boyfriend then her right to choose to have her child  has been taken away from her and you’re ok with that?  Well it seems you are. .

And if a woman is coerced into having an abortion by a boyfriend, relative or whomever, well you’re obviously ok with that as well. And what about sex selection abortion, do you think that’s ok too?

You see Mr.Watson, pro life MP’s  have been working tirelessly on Bills and Motions that would help prevent these atrocities but every step of the way people like yourself have thwarted these efforts even though millions of  Canadians want some restrictions on abortion. And many more Canadians I am sure, would want restrictions on abortions too,  if they knew the truth about abortion which sadly is being kept from them by media bias not to mention some of our Government leaders. I don’t know how many times I have heard the lie from our leaders that it is a woman’s right to choose.  

I think your time spent lowering the flag would have been better spent ensuring that the 14,000  peaceful Marchers were permitted to take the designated, approved, March for Life route which goes by the human Rights Monument .It seems that there were as many police as there were  rowdy vulgar protesters who were there preventing us from passing the Monument . Mr Watson, this was a violation of our right to hold a peaceful, approved demonstration.

In closing, The Right to Life is the first of all human rights.  Without the right to life there can be no other rights

 

Maureen Ward

Ottawa ON