Toronto March for LifeBy Meagan vande Bruinhorst
My husband, Alex, and I recently moved to a new house in Calgary. I’ve been taking our daughter in the stroller for walks and as we explored the neighbourhood, we found a really nice path that winds through tall evergreens up on a bit of a hill that allows you to look out a ways. You can see the downtown and Nose Hill Park. You can watch airplanes coming in and taking off. But you can also see the Peter Lougheed Centre.
They do abortions at Peter Lougheed. This is also the only hospital in Alberta which does abortions, which means that when you look up abortion statistics for Alberta, all of the abortions in hospital would be taking place there. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, 1535 induced abortions were performed in Alberta in 2018. That’s 1535 abortions which happened within walking distance of our home in one year. Being open only on weekdays, that’s about 6 abortions each day and they’ll do abortions up to 20 weeks.
As I drive to go pick up groceries from Superstore, I drive past Peter Lougheed. And so does everyone else. Inside of me, something screams, “Do they know?! Do they know babies are being killed right THERE? Maybe even right now?!” The evil is hidden and traffic continues to stream past.
Am I supposed to keep seeing this hospital when I go for a walk? Do I have to drive past this hospital every time I go do groceries or get gas? It’s such a heart-breaking reminder.
Yes. Because until abortions stop in Canada, I need to be confronted with the reality of what’s happening, to be reminded that something very tragic is happening. That’s also why we must show people the victims of abortion. Many of the people driving past Peter Lougheed drive past in oblivion. They don’t know what happens in that monstrous brick building. How will they be confronted with the reality of abortion? I remember a talk I heard from Jonathon years back where he said that if Canadians had to walk out their door each morning and go past all the corpses of the broken babies killed the day before, they’d be doing something about it.
Fellow Canadians, is abortion real to you? Where’s the closest abortion clinic or hospital to your home? How many abortions do they do there? Have you looked at the face of a baby killed in an abortion? Have you studied her fingers and toes, beautifully formed yet on the ends of arms which have been torn off her body?
And now ask yourself this: what are you going to do about it?
This is the dumbest thing i’ve read all day, came to this website looking for potential facts or real arguments against abortion rights but really just finding nonsense. 😭
If you’re looking for arguments against abortion, those are in the classroom or in blog posts tagged with apologetics.
What I am going to do about it? Absolutely nothing that what.
Do you believe in human rights? Shouldn’t we do something if human beings are being denied their human rights?
What a terrible tragedy that the only hospital assisting mothers that needs an abortion completed are only done in one hospital. That’s the biggest tragedy of this story by far.
It’s not your body. Who gives a single damn? Those FETUSES are not living breathing humans. I think you should maybe refocus your energy on all the existing children who are being treated like garbage daily. I will never regret my decision to get an abortion, my child would have had a horrible life— and I would’ve as well. I hope you figure your priorities out soon!
I’m disgusted that this was written. Mind your own fucking business. Women should be able to freely have an abortion at any hospital and be able to do so with complete privacy. Stop trying to tell people what they can and can’t do with their own body’s.
They don’t want you living there either trust me