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This is a guest post from Perina Baklinski, a participant in the 2025 Pro-Life Week of Action. Applications for the 2026 Pro-Life Week of Action are now open!

“Yeah, I totally think you are right,” a young man named Michael declared. “Abortion is never OK, period. Not even in a hard circumstance, like sexual assault.”

I was astounded. I had just had a quick conversation with Michael about human rights as they relate to
pre-born babies. And now, for the first time in his life, he saw the reality of abortion from the baby’s perspective, and realized that there was something really wrong with the “right to choose” to kill a smaller, more vulnerable human being.

The conversation went like this:

“Hi there! What do you think about abortion?” I asked, smiling at him, while offering him a pamphlet containing abortion victim photography as he walked by with his buddies.

“Um, well, I think it is fine.”

“Do you believe in human rights?”

“Yeah, of course!”

“Who gets human rights?”

“Well, everyone.”

“Yes, I totally agree with you. If two humans reproduce, what will their offspring be?”

“Uhh, human.”

“Right! So don’t you think abortion, the killing of human offspring, is a human rights violation?” I asked softly, showing him the 7-week-old aborted baby on the larger-than-life billboard I was standing beside.

He answered in the affirmative.

“I’m Perina,” I said, introducing myself. “It’s been a pleasure meeting you!”

“Thank you,” Michael said, as he warmly shook my hand. “I never even knew any of this stuff before.”

I was in the middle of my second “Choice” Chain, a pro-life project using abortion victim photography coupled with pro-life apologetics to convince people on the streets, in busy downtown Toronto. This was my third conversation where someone had changed from being in favour of abortion to being attracted to the truth of the pro-life perspective. I watched Michael walk away, glad that another person had become pro-life, but, at the same time, disturbed at how many people uncritically accept abortion ideology.

Every day in Canada, there are some three hundred abortions. Two beating hearts go into the hospital or abortion facility, and only one comes out. People are generally unaware and have no idea what abortion actually is — the intentional killing of an innocent, pre-born baby by violent means such as poisoning, dismemberment, ripping, tearing, and crushing. Ignorance of who abortion targets and its gruesome reality makes most people apathetic to the plight of the pre-born. Not understanding that this is the greatest human rights violation of our times, most don’t care about doing anything to end it — that is, until they see it for the first time.

During the March 2025 Pro-Life Week of Action, over 30 teens and I made a huge impact waking up Toronto to the plight of the pre-born. As part of CCBR’s pro-life strategy, we hand-delivered into mailboxes over 6,000 pro-life postcards that highlighted the human rights of the pre-born and showed the graphic inhumanity of abortion. Approximately 3,000 pamphlets were distributed during six “Choice” Chain events. Our team leaders calculated that there were an estimated 69,000 overall views of the billboards and pamphlets at the end of our four days of pro-life activism. Statistics reveal that an astounding 67 percent of people who see abortion victim photographs feel more negatively about abortion. With the work of CCBR on the streets of Toronto day after day, I think it is only a matter of time before all of the city becomes more negative about killing pre-born babies.

Why are pro-life activists like me willing to go to the streets to make the case for life? The answer is simple: abortion will not end, there will not be laws enacted that recognize and protect the pre-born as full members of the human family, until the public cries out for this to happen. Policy is downstream from public opinion, therefore public opinion needs to shift on abortion. That is why we take the pro-life message to the streets with courage and conviction — to change hearts and minds with compassion. We’re here to make abortion unthinkable. The work CCBR and other pro-life organizations do is crucial to making this happen. Abortion will not end by human strength alone. We can accomplish little on our own in this pivotal task. It is God who gives us the strength and the grace to move hearts to embrace life and to do this without fear, knowing that He is with us and is a God of life.

William Wilberforce, a driving force behind the abolition of the slave-trade in England, once said about images that showed the horrific reality of trading human flesh: “You can choose to look the other way, but never again can you say you do not know.” Like Wilberforce, during the Pro-Life Week of Action we showed Torontonians the horrific reality of abortion. Some people reacted in anger to those of us who held the billboards, choosing to look away, but they will never again be able to say that they did not know what abortion looks like. Yes, I recognize that these pictures of aborted babies are extremely difficult to look at. I do not want to look at them either. However, if we don’t show the truth about abortion, no one will ever be moved to oppose it. These images show the suffering of our fellow brothers and sisters. They should move one to empathy and then one day, to action. The children who are aborted are ignored and often forgotten by their mothers and fathers and their families. However, we must not forget these babies. We honour their lives by remembering them and by showing the terrible suffering they endured.

The pro-life movement will fight for protection from the start of human life for these most vulnerable brothers and sisters. We will be a voice for these smallest ones among us who do not have a voice. We will fight for them until abortion is ended. Through the grace of God, we can — and will — make abortion unthinkable.

Come join us in Florida this winter for a week to learn how to make a compassionate and compelling case for pre-born children. The most vulnerable human beings in our society are killed every day, and you can make a difference.

I’ll never forget the day I was told, “You shouldn’t call yourself pro-life.”

I asked a young lady—I’ll call her Julia—what she thought about abortion. She had been sitting on a park bench next to our display which had been up all day at her university campus, watching her friends and classmates have conversations with us or join the protest that set up opposite us.

I sat down beside her and she shared her opinion with me. Julia was pro-choice, but supported our right to express ourselves. She didn’t think I understood the difficult situations that people experience, because if I did, I would obviously support a “woman’s right to choose.”

Most often in conversations like this, I have to make a difficult choice – to not defend myself.

My goal is to make a compassionate and compelling case against abortion, and to speak on behalf of little boys and girls who can’t speak for themselves. I try to empathetically address the difficult circumstances that people often face alongside pregnancy, and show that women deserve better than abortion.

Most of the time, I only have a few minutes. I might be out for an hour and the student might have 5-20 minutes to talk, so I’m going to spend my time focused as much as I can on the injustice done to the child. I’m going to make the case that while we must seek to eliminate suffering, we can’t do that by eliminating the sufferer. While I attempt to speak on behalf of pre-born children, I am often stereotyped and accused.

“You don’t care about born children. How many children have you adopted?”

“You don’t know what you’re talking about. Have you ever been pregnant?”

“You’re not really pro-life. Do you support gun control?”

“You don’t care about vulnerable people. Do you support contraception?”

“You are privileged. Do you have any idea what suffering is like?”

My goal is not to speak on behalf of myself. The conscious choice I make – in the few minutes I have – is not to defend myself.

I meet a lot of really cool people on the streets, and I find myself often wishing that we’d met in different circumstances. I spoke with another young lady—I’ll call her Sarah—recently who is in Midwifery school. That’s so cool. I wish I could be her friend.

I told Sarah that she has an awesome major, but we spent the rest of the conversation talking about what we disagree on. I tried to address her concerns and turn her attention to the broken body of the child, visible on my sign. I tried to connect with her love of humanity that drew her into midwifery, and inspire her to treat all human beings equally. I don’t know how much it resonated with her. We parted as two people on opposite sides of a contentious issue.

I have an innately human desire to be liked and understood, and it hurt a little. It often does.

I feel no shame in being pro-life, or even being the odd stranger on a street corner speaking on behalf of the most vulnerable human beings in our society, but I do feel frustrated that I am so often stereotyped and don’t get a chance to share my heart.

This time though, sitting next to Julia on the park bench, we had the time to dive deeper into both of our perspectives. She told me about growing up in Africa, and she asked me what I thought about trans rights, about racism, and about poverty.

I told her that I believe that every human being ought to have human rights, and if 1 in every 5 trans people were being killed in Canada, I would be speaking on their behalf the same way that I was for pre-born children. I would show the evidence and I would plead with our culture to respect the rights of the vulnerable.

I shared that, although I have faced difficulty and discrimination in my life, I have no idea what it would be like to grow up in Africa, and I can’t relate to the struggles of black Canadians. I think that every human being – regardless of skin colour or ethnicity – should be treated with the utmost respect.

We brainstormed together about the problem of poverty and the best ways to address it, especially as it pertains to pregnancy. I shared my thoughts and told her about the document Building a Post-Roe Future that was published by a collective of pro-lifers in 2022.

By the time we wrapped up our conversation, she looked at me quizzically and said, “You shouldn’t call yourself pro-life.”

I wasn’t sure how to take that. “What do you mean? I am completely against abortion.”

“Yeah,” she said, and I was relieved that she understood me, but then she said something that confirmed that she understood me even better than I realized. “You’re not pro-life. You’re… anti-abortion. But pro-life isn’t just about abortion, it’s about so much more than that. And you’re not that.”

Cathartic. That’s the only word I can think of to describe how I felt. It wasn’t that she didn’t understand the depth of my conviction – she told me as we parted that I was making her seriously reconsider her own position. It was that in the past 40 minutes, she was able to see past an inaccurate stereotype. To her, “pro-life” was a label that described an uncompassionate, rigid, religious person who held to every belief that was opposite her own, and I wasn’t that person.

Nor have I ever met that person, in all of my years in the pro-life movement.

I hope that after seeing me, she might be willing to see other pro-lifers differently now. I didn’t have time to try to convince her that her perception of “pro-life” is worlds away from accurately representing the many pro-life men and women whom I have stood alongside in the pro-life movement… but maybe her perception has been shaken just enough to be able to see the next one she meets.

I smiled, we hugged before we parted ways, and I took a moment to enjoy feeling seen. Then I turned around and saw a young man walking by our display with his head down.

I wanted him to see me in the way that she had, but I assumed he wouldn’t – and he didn’t. The reason I approached him was not because I wanted to be seen. I approached him because, otherwise, he wouldn’t see the victims of abortion. He would have walked by without looking at them, but he would look at me. Mine was the voice he could hear, my hand was the hand that could offer him a pamphlet, and if I didn’t use my voice, the victims of abortion would stay invisible.

It can be difficult to not make a case for yourself on the streets. Sometimes you will be stereotyped, misunderstood, and accused. But nothing that happens to me for holding a sign and having conversations will be as difficult – as horrific – as what nearly 300 pre-born children face every day in Canada as their bodies are shredded, torn, and discarded. I will never be as invisible as a child who was never known, named, or loved by anyone in his/her short life.

I enjoy the moments when the person in front of me seems to see me, and when I am able to make a friend, even if only for a conversation. But those moments are not why I do this work, in fact, they are almost the opposite of the reason I do this work.

I am not invisible. If stereotypes make me invisible, it’s because no one wants to see the victims of “choice.” I am not a victim, but I can be a face for the faceless. I can use my visibility to allow theirs.

My friend, if you are afraid of sharing the pro-life message because of how people might perceive you or the negative assumptions they might make, let me remind you of two things. First, that the reason for that reaction is because you are communicating an unpopular truth, and second, that you are not alone.

If anyone would look down on you because you are speaking on behalf of children who can’t speak for themselves, let that be a conviction that you are proud to hold, not one to be ashamed of.

And as the author of the classic Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe once observed:

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” –C.S. Lewis

You might find that it’s way easier than you think, or you might find it difficult to talk to people who disagree with you, but the road less travelled is not uninhabited. I think you will find when you look around at the courageous men and women that stand shoulder to shoulder with you, that you are in good company.

And once you realize that the pro-life movement is full of unpopular heroes, I hope you will find the courage to join them.

Come join us in Florida this winter for a week to learn how to make a compassionate and compelling case for pre-born children. The most vulnerable human beings in our society are killed every day, and you can make a difference.

No one joins the pro-life movement because they want to be popular, because it’s not about being seen. The pro-life movement is about bringing attention to those who are most invisible, and we do it alongside the best and bravest people I’ve ever known – people who didn’t ask themselves “Is this the right fit for me?” but rather, “If I don’t… who will?”

Nearly 300 children lose their lives to abortion every day in Canada. This tragedy leaves a deep impact on families and communities, highlighting a pressing need for change. We cannot be silent!

CCBR’s internship project is at the forefront of this fight. Our interns work tirelessly to educate and advocate for life, using powerful visuals and compassionate outreach to shift public perception and save lives. This summer, 59 interns have been working alongside CCBR staff, volunteers and community group partners across Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, and BC.

On Tuesday, August 13th, we took an exclusive look at what a day on the streets contains. Throughout the day, we captured front line action through pictures and video clips, sharing them on our social media pages and compiling footage to create this recap video.

Your support is so important! When you donate to our internship projects, we are able to equip dedicated individuals to show the truth about abortion and impact hundreds of people each day. Many, of these conversations literally are the difference between life and death. Will you stand with us and contribute to this cause today?

At the heart of every movement for change are the dedicated individuals who commit themselves to the cause. Our pro-life internship program, in which passionate young people step forward to advocate for the sanctity of life, is a testament to this truth. 

In our latest video collection, you’ll hear firsthand from these interns. Their testimonies are powerful reminders of why our work is so crucial. Each story reflects the transformation that happens when we are equipped and empowered to engage in life-giving conversations.

Behind these inspiring voices are our supporters—the generous individuals who believe in the power of education, dialogue, and action. Your contributions are the foundation upon which these interns stand. Because of you, they have the resources they need to reach out, educate, and inspire others in their communities.

Through your support, these interns are not just having conversations; they are changing hearts and minds. They are offering hope and alternatives to those facing difficult decisions. They are advocating for views that protect life at every stage.

As the internship continues, your ongoing support is more critical than ever. Together, we are creating a ripple effect of compassion and understanding that extends far beyond our immediate reach. Every dollar donated translates into more training, more outreach, and ultimately, more lives saved.

Join us in celebrating these courageous interns and the difference they are making. Watch their stories, share their passion, and consider how you can play a part in this life-affirming mission. Together, we are turning belief into action, and our impact is resounding.

Thank you for standing with us. Your support is truly changing the world—one conversation, one heart, at a time.

These are the interns who are joining CCBR this summer to make abortion unthinkable! Every day this summer, they will be changing hearts and minds and saving lives across Western Canada.

Partner with us financially this summer to enable the valuable work that the interns are doing!

Megan – Alberta Intern
“Pro-life work changes peoples hearts and minds on abortion making them realize the horror of what abortion really is. The more hearts changed, the fewer babies are murdered. I am passionate about saving babies, and I am confident our work can make an impact. “

Mitchel – Alberta Intern
“People are created in the image of God making them inherently valuable as His image bearers. This value is eroded by practices like abortion and MAiD which try to make people believe that certain people are less valuable than others. If we do not value human life our society as a whole will collapse.”

Nathalie – Alberta Intern
“We have to be a voice for those who do not have a voice yet. Through this internship I hope to become that voice, and gain more expertise in the pro-life movement! I am looking forward to a summer of building connections, meeting new people, and changing minds!”

Oscar – Alberta & BC Intern
“I believe that all humans deserve human rights, and so saving the pre-born is extremely important to me. I was especially inspired to start fighting for the pre-born because of my love for history. I realized that abortion victims far outnumber the victims of atrocities like the Holocaust and Holodomor, and that stopping abortion is a task of vital historical importance and urgency.”

Pius – Alberta Intern
“Pro-life work is the best work; It combats the most vile crime imaginable, abortion, which has slaughtered millions upon millions of innocent children in the womb. Therefore, since these children cannot speak for themselves it is our duty to speak for them despite all ridicule and persecution.”

Rebekah – Alberta Team Leader
“I am choosing to spend my summer fighting for innocent children as I see the importance and the need to change people’s minds on abortion. I hope that when I take a stand and step up for this issue, I will inspire more people to do the same.”

Shantel – Alberta Intern
“I am choosing to spend the summer standing up for the pre-born because I love helping all people, including the pre-born, and we are also called by God to do everything we can to promote justice in an evil world.”

Tsion – Alberta Intern
“I am choosing to spend my summer standing up for pre-born children because standing up for those who don’t have a voice is one of the most important things I can do with my summer.”

Winter – Alberta Intern
“Pro-life work is important because a whole part of our generation is being unjustly slaughtered. It is our duty to stand up for them since they are unable to do so themselves. I am looking forward to getting out on the streets to talk to people to change minds and hearts… and being counter-cultural.”

Megan, Mitchel, Nathalie, Oscar, Pius, Rebekah, Shantel, Tsion, and Winter are some of the interns and team leaders who are dedicating their summer to bringing the truth about abortion to the public in Western Canada. If you would like to support them in the work that they’re doing, you can donate to support CCBR’s Summer Internship!

Every summer, CCBR interns and staff bring the truth about abortion to Canadian streets, to change hearts and minds and make abortion unthinkable. These are some of the courageous men and women who will be dedicating their summer to save lives this year!

Partner with us financially this summer to enable the valuable work that the interns are doing!

Carmel – BC Return Intern
“The pro-life movement needs individuals who dedicate their time to doing outreach. I’m excited to help the volunteer team grow in Vancouver, giving even more people the opportunity to help put an end to abortion.”

Carolyn – Alberta Return Intern
“Pro-life work is important because over 300 pre-born humans die every day in Canada from abortion. As pro-lifers we must reach every Canadian and educate them on the truth about what abortion is so that we can make abortion unthinkable.”

Chloe B. – Alberta Intern
“We need to stand up for those who can’t. And we can’t just let people kill the babies. If I don’t stand up for them, who will?”

Chloe D. – Alberta & Manitoba Intern
“Being active in the pro-life movement is important because every day in Canada, 300 innocent lives are ended due to abortion, and every day we are silent is allowance for more and more injustice to happen.”

Dante– Alberta Intern
“Part of what convinced me to work with CCBR is that when I look back at the people who were able to stop some great evil but didn’t, I wonder if I will rank among their number. If I know what is right, and do nothing, how can I live with myself?”

Ellie – Alberta Intern
“I’m hoping to change hearts and minds on the topic of abortion, while also developing my own skills and growing my confidence. Ultimately I would love to bring the knowledge and skills I learn back to New Zealand, and use them to support the pro-life movement there.”

Faith – Manitoba Intern
“I’m choosing to spend my summer with CCBR because I really don’t have much knowledge or skills when it comes to talking / dealing with anything abortion related. I want to learn how to have meaningful conversations with pro-choicers and others in a way that does not make them feel like their opinions don’t matter and to make a difference in this broken world.”

Helena – Alberta Intern
“We need to stand up for the innocent and vulnerable. Every human life is created in God’s image which makes it so valuable.”

Jake – Alberta Intern
“I want to participate in something virtuous and something that is bigger than myself. The state of our country currently suggests that having a proper family will be next to impossible. That’s not the kind of society I want my children to inherit. I want to help to build a Christian future.”

Jaxon – Manitoba Intern
“I hope that by advocating for the pre-born I would become more compassionate and grow in charity both towards the pre-born as I truly feel the weight of the evil that seeks to destroy them, and also towards the people whom I shall meet on the street, whose stories I shall hear, and some of whom are very lost and simply need to hear the truth.”

Jerome – Manitoba Intern
“Pro-life work is the work of witnessing to the world on behalf of and for the pre-born. It is a command of God, Who calls his people to “seek justice; correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s case” (Isaiah 1:17). It is, for that reason, of utmost importance.”

Lydia – Alberta Team Leader
“CCBR keeps drawing me back simply because of two things: The first being the need, and the second the community. I am so thankful to be given this chance to come back this summer again and I look forward to having meaningful conversations and building those deep connections with everyone involved.”

Maria – Alberta Return Intern
“Standing up for the pre-born is one of the best things that we can do in this life! Babies in the womb are truly the most innocent and vulnerable in our society and we need to work hard towards changing our society from a culture of death to a culture of life! Pro-life work has saved many human lives and I feel blessed to be working with CCBR this summer!”

Carmel, Carolyn, Chloe B, Chloe D, Dante, Ellie, Faith, Helena, Jake, Jaxon, Jerome, Lydia, and Maria are just a few of the interns and team leaders who are dedicating their summer to making abortion unthinkable in Western Canada. If you would like to help them in the work that they’re doing, you can donate to support CCBR’s Summer Internship!

This summer, over 50 CCBR interns and staff will be going to public streets across Canada to defend the lives of pre-born children. Over the next few weeks, we will be introducing you to the courageous men and women who will be dedicating their summer to make abortion unthinkable!

Partner with us financially by donating online to support the Summer Internship!

Jess – Ontario Team Leader
“The pro-life movement recognizes that every human has dignity and is worthy of respect. This is special in a culture that has increasingly lost sight of this fact. It is very simple really; pro-life work is important because babies are dying and we need that to stop. The pro-life movement is working to do just that.”

Jesse – Ontario Intern
“This February I had the opportunity to work with CCBR as a part of their Florida abortion awareness program. While I was there I began to realize that we can truly make a real difference and help to save the lives of others. This then inspired me to continue to work with them and to join their Toronto internship.”

Jillian – Ontario Team Leader
“Pro-life work is important because we are called by God to be a voice for the voiceless and defend those who can’t stand up for themselves.”

Joanna – Ontario Intern
“Pre-born babies are the most vulnerable members of our society, unable to stand up for themselves, to fight for the right simply to live. If we won’t step up, who will? I’ve seen the pictures, I’ve seen the videos, I know the truth. So, in the words of William Wilberforce, “Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.”

John – Ontario Intern
“The right to life is the most fundamental right that supersedes liberty, property, the pursuit of happiness, and all other human rights. There is no such thing as a stable and free civilization which simultaneously fails to guarantee the most fundamental and central right to life.”

Jonah – Ontario Intern
“Pro-life work is important for numerous reasons, but the main one is that these pre-born babies who we are working for can’t do this work for themselves which is why we must do it for them.”

Jordan – Ontario Intern
“Many people I know have participated in the CCBR internship, and I am excited to be able to share the same experience. CCBR forces you to get comfortable with the uncomfortable, which is an incredibly important skill to have. I am excited to force myself to take on this great challenge, especially considering what is at stake.”

Josh – Ontario Intern
“We must be a voice for the voiceless. Through this summer internship I look forward to saving lives, making friends, and gaining experience in mission related circumstances”

Josiah – Ontario Intern
“The recent Florida AAP trip I went on in February really showed me the need for pro-life work. It was an eye opener to show me the backlash against our efforts, which shows how important it is to keep on reaching out in society.”

Kaden – Ontario Team Leader
“Abortion is the greatest injustice, not just of our lifetime, but in history. And right now, in Canada, there are more people working full time to kill children, than to save them.”

Kristen – Ontario Intern
“‘I’m looking forward to being a part of something bigger than myself. I know I will meet a lot of like-minded people, share the truth about abortion, and grow in my own confidence as I work towards something of great importance.”

Matthias – Ontario Team Leader
“Pro-life work important because without it babies would secretly and silently be killed every day. If we don’t show the injustice, the injustice continues on. I can make a difference in our culture and by doing pro-life work this summer, lives will be saved. “

Maylat – Ontario Intern
“Pro-life work is important because life is important and if life is important to all people life should be what we stand for. Simple. All dignified human beings have a right to life, including the most precious of God’s creation: innocent, beautiful children. I will stand for them, I will fight for them.”

Naomi – Ontario Team Leader
“The message the world is sending is a message of death. We need to spread the message of life. The message of support, love, and the truth. Abortion not only ends the life of an innocent baby but also directly hurts the women and families involved. They deserve so much more because all humans are equal, and created in God’s image.”

Rachel – Ontario Intern
“In addition to the harmful effects abortion has on the mother (damage to body, soul, and spirit), on the abortionist (the sin of murder), and the pain the child will endure while being killed, I believe that abortion is a slap in the face to God. I believe we owe our YES to God, after He has mercifully given us His best.”

Renee – Ontario Intern
“Pro-life work is important because it shows the horrible truth of what abortion does to the most vulnerable in our society, and we as humans are called to stand up for those who can’t stand and speak for themselves.”

Jess, Jesse, Jillian, Joanna, John, Jonah, Jordan, Josh, Josiah, Kaden, Kristen, Matthias, Maylat, Naomi, Rachel, and Renee are some of the interns and team leaders who are dedicating their summer to change hearts and minds on abortion. If you would like to further support the work that they’re doing, you can donate to support CCBR’s Summer Internship!

Every summer, CCBR interns and staff bring the truth about abortion to Canadian streets, to change hearts and minds and make abortion unthinkable. Over the next few weeks, we will be introducing you to the courageous men and women who will be dedicating their summer to save lives this year!

Partner with us financially this summer to enable the valuable work that the interns are doing!

Abigail – Ontario Intern
“The most vulnerable and innocent of human beings are stripped of their right to life each and every day and often there is an ignorance as abortion clinics are flooded with women who do not understand what takes place behind the closed doors. As long as abortion is occurring, pro-life work must continue all the more: there must always be a voice fighting for the voiceless.”

Annalise – Ontario Intern
“If we don’t step up to defend the helpless pre-born in our society, who will? We need to help people understand and see the horror of abortion, everyday.”

Ashley – Ontario Intern
“People have lost their humanity. They don’t care about killing, it’s so ingrained into us by movies, books, and the people around us that would think it’s totally ok. We need to get our humanity back, and save the little angels’ lives.”

Ben – Ontario Intern
“Today, justice is being denied to defenseless pre-born children in Canada taking their very lives. We are called to fight.”

Benji – Ontario Intern
“This summer I want to master my apologetics further and [I signed up for the internship] because of the fact that children are still being killed in Canada.”

Brayden – Ontario Intern
“Being active in pro-life work is important because people’s lives depend on it.”

Claire – Ontario Intern
“Pro-life work is necessary because, just as I used to, so many people go through life turning a blind eye to injustices that happen. With love, truth, and charity I want to gently invite others to learn the beauty, dignity and sacredness of every life.”

Colin – Ontario Intern
“There is no price one can place upon the infant child developing in the womb of his mother. This in turn places a paramount importance upon pro-life work, for in it, one has the privilege of defending the life of he who is defenseless.”

Colton – Ontario Intern
“Pro-life work is so important because it opens the eyes and hearts of the people to the truth and horrors of abortion. If we don’t tell them, who will?”

Darrel – Ontario Intern
“The pro-life work that I do is important because it sheds light on and brings awareness to the killing of innocent human life that happens every day through abortion, making every single passerby rethink what they know about the issue.”

Devin – Ontario Intern
“I have always been pro-life and knew that abortion was wrong, but I began to realize more and more that I can’t just be passively pro-life when hundreds of babies are killed here every day. I have a duty to take action, because that is the only way change can take place.”

Elisha – Ontario Intern
“Pro-life work is important because people justified the mass murder of innocent little babies and view it as a good thing.”

Eugenie – Ontario Intern
“Pro-life work is important because it humanizes the pre-born, recognizing their inherent dignity and right to life. It also supports pregnant individuals in challenging situations and advocates for compassionate alternatives to abortion. The pro-life movement embodies a commitment to valuing and protecting every human life, fostering a culture of empathy and respect for all individuals, regardless of their stage of development.”

Gianna – Ontario Intern
“Pro-life work is important because if it’s not done, pre-born children will die. I’m inspired to do this internship by the hope of saving lives and changing minds on abortion.”

Hannah – Ontario Intern
“I believe that pro-life work is incredibly important because it is really the only way to give a voice to the pre-born. The pre-born are the most vulnerable group of people and their rights and well-being are often overlooked and pro-life work helps to protect these vulnerable children.”

James – Ontario Intern
“My pro-life work in the past year inspired me to learn more and to spend more time working on my pro-life apologetic skills.”

Janae – Ontario Team Leader
“I love doing pro-life work because while doing it, I have seen so many people become pro-life and reject abortion. Doing a summer of leading activism in defense of little children can’t be matched with much else.”

Jeremiah – Ontario Intern
“I did a week-long trip to Florida with CCBR and at the end of the trip during dinner one of the staff members of CCBR gave a testimony of how she was outside an abortion clinic and convinced a man to go in and stop his girlfriend from getting an abortion. I found the story to be very moving and was inspired to intern this summer.”

Abigail, Annalise, Ashley, Ben, Benji, Brayden, Claire, Colin, Colton, Darrel, Devin, Elisha, Eugenie, Gianna, Hannah, James, Janae, and Jeremiah are some of the interns and team leaders who are dedicating their summer to bring the visual evidence of injustice and street-tested apologetics to public streets across Ontario to spare children’s lives and to spare women the trauma of abortion. If you would like to help to further the work that they’re doing, you can donate to support CCBR’s Summer Internship!

When I was 10, I told myself, “This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.”

I was talking about ballet. My cousin is a professional ballerina, and she gave lessons to me and four of my sisters in the empty apartment above my house. The dusty, slanted, water-damaged and creaky hardwood floor didn’t make the best dance floor, but we didn’t know better. I fell in love with the beauty of ballet and with the demands it made on me – it pushed me hard and required great things from me. I never wanted to stop.

A few years later, I did want to stop. Ballet was hard and often not as rewarding as I hoped it would be. My younger sisters were more flexible than I was and picked up the routines faster; I experienced my first mid-life crisis at 12, as I seriously debated switching careers.

I powered through, and at 14, I told myself again, “I want to do this for the rest of my life.” My love and determination grew as I continued to self-teach and take any classes I could, and I told myself again at 15, 16, and 17, “I want to do this for the rest of my life.”

That’s the moment that most people want to have when we make plans for our lives. I’ve been told by many people to embrace that and not let go of it. If that’s what you’re passionate about, chase it! If that’s what makes you happy, don’t let go of it!

I went to Florida on a week-long trip with CCBR to talk to university students about abortion when I was 17. I had gone the previous year and was so inspired that I had to go again, but this time it hit me differently. I realized that it wasn’t just American children who were being killed by abortion, but nearly 300 Canadian children every day as well. It wasn’t just children across the country, but children in Windsor—in my neighborhood.

When I came back from that week in Florida, I started volunteering with Windsor Against Abortion – determined to make a difference in my city. I was able to volunteer about 2 hours–sometimes 3 or 4 hours–per week to change hearts and minds and save lives.

I worked 30-40 hours per week at McDonalds and spent 20-28 hours per week training and conditioning myself to be a dancer. My goal was to increase my training hours to about 60/week, which is what I would need if I was going to dance professionally.

I started to wrestle with a different question: “Can I afford to do this for the rest of my life?

I could, certainly. It was a workload I would happily take on in order to achieve my dream, but how could I justify spending 60 hours/week working toward something I wanted while 2100 helpless children were killed in that same amount of time?

Part of my inspiration for wanting to be a dancer was that dance had spoken to me during some dark times of my life, and stirred hope within me where it hadn’t existed before. I wanted to give that gift to other people – to bring hope where there was hopelessness, and touch a part of someone that only art can touch. But the more I thought about it, the more my attention was drawn to the need.

If nearly 300 toddlers were being slaughtered every day in Canada, would I be content to volunteer for 2-4 hours/week and try not to think about them the rest of the time? Would I be content to train myself to be a dancer to meet the emotional needs of a few people and ignore the lives of innocent children?

Further, I asked myself, “What if hardly anyone was willing to do anything about it?”

There were many people who were willing to become dancers, but only a handful who were willing to put aside their other aspirations to save these children.

My thoughts were echoed by Gregg Cunningham, who was working full-time in the pro-life movement at the time:

“There are more people working full-time to kill babies than to save babies, because killing babies is profitable and saving babies is costly.”

There isn’t a shortage of dancers – there are more dancers than professional companies can hire – but there is a shortage of pro-life activists.

I imagined what it would look like to work full-time to save babies – talking to people on the streets to show them the humanity of pre-born children and the inhumanity of abortion, inspiring other pro-lifers to start defending the lives of innocents, fundraising (since saving babies is costly) and behind-the-scenes work to make it all possible.

Journalist Elaine Godfrey interviewed Abortionist Warren Hern, who gave a glimpse into what it is like to work full-time to kill babies. She wrote:

“In the 1970s…once or twice, during a procedure at 15 or 16 weeks, he used forceps to remove a fetus with a still-beating heart. The heart thumped for only a few seconds before stopping. But for a long while after, a vision of that fetus would wake Hern from sleep. He could see it in his mind, the inches-long body and its heart: beating, beating, beating.”

It seemed like everywhere I turned, I found the answer to my question: “Can I afford to do this for the rest of my life?” I heard the story of Sophie Scholl, who died young at the hands of Nazis because of her resistance work with the White Rose. She famously said,

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause?”

Surely Sophie had dreams, but she knew that someone had to set aside their ambitions to fight injustice. If it was Sophie, I found that I couldn’t explain why it shouldn’t be me. Someone had to defend innocent children. Yet, somehow, almost no one “felt called” to it.

I wrestled with these feelings until I was 19 years old, when I decided to take a break from dancing to discern what I should do.

After asking myself for years as I trained in ballet, “Do I want to keep doing this for the rest of my life?” and answering, “Yes!” I stood outside on a rainy day behind a sign which showed a picture of a victim of abortion. The picture was so brutal it was hard even for me to look at – it showed what Warren Hern called “a destructive operation on a form that is similar to our own.” A tiny body that was ripped apart and covered in blood. It was unclear whether it was a boy or a girl, and unclear whether the blood was her own or her mother’s – and I watched the looks of horror on people’s faces as they hurried by. I asked myself, “Do I want to keep doing this for the rest of my life?”

The answer came easily. NO.

I want to stop doing this as fast as possible.

I want to stop showing pictures of dead children because no one needs to be shown anymore – because the photos are outdated records of the past. The moment there is no longer a demand for abortion in Canada is the moment I will start to re-imagine what I want to do with the rest of my life. Until then, I will do what someone must.

To borrow the words of Gregg Cunningham again: “It’s not my passion, it’s my conviction.”

I haven’t trained again since December 2018, because my children will inherit the world that I helped to create, and I want them to be able to chase their dreams. I want them to be able to decide to spend 60 hours/week dancing, without knowing that there are children who need someone to set aside their dreams to save them.

I want those children to ask, “What do I want to do for the rest of my life?” instead of “the rest of their life” lasting only a few weeks or months until they are torn apart.

I work full-time in the pro-life movement because I can’t afford to do something else. In an ideal world, I would be working to accomplish my dreams, but in a society that kills innocent children, I don’t have the luxury of working to accomplish my dreams.

“Do I want to keep doing this for the rest of my life?”

The point of asking that question is supposed to be that if the answer is yes do it – and if no don’t. Yet this is the paradox of the pro-life movement: None of us want to be here. Our goal is to work ourselves out of a job.

Some might say that I am wasting my potential working full-time in the pro-life movement at 24, and perhaps that is true. In some ways, it almost certainly is.

Sophie Scholl “wasted her potential” by joining the White Rose resistance and being killed at 21, but her goal was not to have a successful career, her goal was a better world.

“Such a fine sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” -Sophia Scholl

If Sophie decided to be the one to give up her life, then I can’t answer why I shouldn’t be the one to give up my dream. What dream is worth more than the lives of innocent children?

This summer, over 60 CCBR interns and staff are bringing the truth about abortion to Canadian streets. These are the courageous men and women on the front lines of the Culture War!

Partner with us financially by supporting our Summer Internship Crowdfunding Campaign!

Natalya- 2-month Ontario Intern

“We can save the lives of those who can’t speak for themselves by showing people the reality of abortion.

I was inspired to do the summer internship after I finished the Pro-life Week of Action, and got to change some people’s minds but also seeing a little bit more of the reality of abortion and the grief it causes.”

Sarah – 2-month Ontario Intern

“I believe pro-life work is important because God places huge value on every human life regardless of their situation or age… we should do the same.  Every human is an image bearer of God.”

Sophia – 2-month Ontario Intern

“Pro-life work is important because it saves lives, stands up against evil, and builds character.

A few things inspired me to do this summer internship, including attending a CCBR Boot-camp, encouragement from my friends, and God.”

Thomas – 2-month Alberta Intern

“I want to become a formidable pro-life apologist to engage people in a firm, loving, and compassionate way about the issue on a regular basis. I was inspired to do the internship while volunteering for CCBR. I realized that the higher frequency of conversations you have and the more training you have, the better the conversations tend to go. The internship allows for conversations and training almost every day.”

Zoe – 2-month Ontario Intern

“One of the largest genocides in the world is happening in our cities today. This work has the valuable opportunity to speak into the lives of people and potentially save children. Our culture today is so driven towards death, even when trying to avoid it, and people often forget the value of life at all stages. The value of life can not be found in this world but instead can only be found in Christ, who is the only true hope.”

For every four children born in this country, one is killed by abortion. Their silent screams can’t be heard, but their broken bodies can be seen. This is why Natalya, Sarah, Sophia, Thomas, and Zoe are joining our 60+ interns and staff on Canadian streets this summer, showing abortion victim photography and having conversations to change hearts and minds and save lives. Help us making abortion unthinkable in Canada by donating to CCBR’s Summer Internship Crowdfunding Campaign!