CUPE and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Must First Target Poverty of the Unborn

Yesterday, about 2,000 union members and supporters rallied in downtown Toronto against the “scourge of poverty,” and called poverty a “national disgrace.”

The rally, one of many around the globe, was in support of International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which has more than 500,000 members indicated poverty was a moral issue when he was quoted as saying:

Canada cannot claim to provide moral leadership to the world without putting its money where its mouth is.

It’s very normal—and right—to view poverty as a moral issue. Of course poverty can also be considered an issue of justice. Poverty in Canada is truly a “national disgrace,” as the protestors claimed.

But let’s be very clear about what we are talking about when we refer to poverty. As I said in a previous posting entitled “Politically Correct” Poverty Versus True Poverty,”

Considering the fact that poverty, in the narrow sense of proper food and clothing, is deemed an injustice, then the denial of that individual’s very right to live would constitute the greatest poverty and an infinitely greater injustice.

Again, in the narrow, “politically correct” sense of poverty, we see that it is only one of many kinds of injustices against children. Child abuse is another. As a society we are enraged at the thought of children being abused in any manner by adults. But which is the worse injustice: “pc poverty” or child abuse? The answer is obvious. Taken a step further, it should be equally clear that killing a child is a worse injustice than abusing a child.

If one protests about “pc poverty,” maintaining that a child cannot be denied proper food, clothing, housing, etc. [as these thousands of protestors seem to be doing] but says nothing when the same child’s very right to live is denied [make no mistake about it, most of these protestors were not participants in the March for Life], how seriously must we take them? If we are to be truly concerned about poverty we will not conveniently close our eyes to the far greater injustice of killing children. This parable strikes a blow to such hypocrisy.

Of course, some will protest that “abortion is about a woman’s right to choose,” and not about killing children. It’s not about poverty at all, they will say. But merely stating such slogans do not make them true. The one question that must be asked by all Canadians considering the larger picture of poverty is this one: What is the Unborn?

Let’s rightly answer that question first and set ourselves upon the truly high moral ground. Then and only then can we consider ourselves in any important sense to be a “moral beacon” to the world.

And by the way, since Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) was such a high profile presence in this march against poverty, it would be good to see what CUPE’s position is on legalized child-killing.

Obviously CUPE, like too many other groups, including religious ones, is concerned about the “politically correct” and very narrow version of poverty. Someone needs to help them get their eyes opened.

Pro-Life News Bytes September 25, 2007

Stand to Reason reports on Scott Klusendorf’s posting describing what a pro-life pastor looks like.
He points out that pro-life issues aren't a political or para-church issue; the nature of being human is at the core of the Biblical message and central to teaching and training Christians who can engage and not be taken in by the culture.
Are You/Do You Have a Pro-life Pastor?

Also from STR re the visit of Ahmadinejad to Columbia U.
I think the university president's comments and questions to Ahmadinejad were constructive, accurate, and useful, though essentially pointless. They didn't justify the appearance of Iran's president at the Columbia because everything he said is well-known, well-documented, and were ignored by Ahmadinejad.
What Do We Fear? Moral Relativism and "Tolerance"

BigBlueWave blogged yesterday on this important survey.
Religious conservative vote is becoming an electoral factor in Canada

Campaign Life Coalition to release report re election candidates
Campaign Life Coalition to Shortly Post Ontario Election Candidate Survey Results on Internet

Quite a few items in the news about schools

Leonard at Stand Your Ground reports
Those who've never been to a Christian school can have a glimpse of what it looks like thanks to this article in the Toronto Star. I find it quite fairly written, even though expressions such as "infuse the Ontario curriculum with Christian values" do seem like criticism.
A Look At Christian School

From the Toronto Star
The roots of discord over religious schools

Blogger A. Carlton Sallet of Upper Canada Catholic says
Here’s a few things nobody’s talking about when it comes to the whole funding for faith based schools / end funding of Catholic schools debate raging in Ontario:
Reality Check: De-funding Ontario's Catholic Schools

Father Alphonse de Valk at Catholic Insight
Catholic school boards bowing to secularism

StatGuy discusses serious flaws found in a study criticizing abstinence-only sex education.
Lessons in depravity

Suzanne reports on more news about Archbishop Raymond Burke, Bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis Missouri. He’s my personal choice for the next Pope.
“No matter how often a bishop or priest repeats the teaching of the church regarding procured abortion, if he stands by and does nothing to discipline a Catholic who publicly supports legislation permitting the gravest of injustices, and, at same time, presents himself to receive Holy Communion, then his teachings ring hollow,” Burke writes.
Archbishop Burke: Deny Communion to Sinful Pols
Here’s the link to the story that Suzanne covered.

Blogger Orycteropus also has a post
Archbishop Burke, Abortion, and "Communion Cops"

Priests for Life is asking pro-lifers to sign their petition to the media to show the American people what an abortion is.

JivinJehoshaphat reports on the sad news that Pastor John Piper's son and daughter-in-law discovered their child, due to be delivered on Sunday, had died in the womb.
Life Links 9/24/07

And speaking of Pastor John Piper, who is a great friend of the Unborn, at the blogsite New Life From Heaven, one of John Piper’s quotes is included, along with other info which makes for a very unique posting.
Abortion?

Opinion piece from Pastor Chuck Baldwin
DOBSON IS RIGHT ABOUT GIULIANI

LifeSiteNews reports on Hillary Clinton
Biography Reveals Hillary Clinton Séance, Religious Devotion to Abortion

From LifeNews.com
A pro-life group that monitors charitable involvement with abortion businesses and pro-abortion organizations has published a new report criticizing Rotary International. Life Decisions International says Rotary has ties with groups that promote both abortion and population control
Pro-Life Org Blasts Rotary Club for Involvement With Pro-Abortion Groups

From Catholic Online
Text of the USCCB statement for Respect Life Sunday 2007

Winnipeg Sun reports that members of Edmonton's gay community are lashing out at controversial mayoral candidate Bill Whatcott over his anti-homosexual election platform.
Candidate anti-gay

Catholic Citizens supports Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo is his call for priests to imitate him by praying for one hour in front of an abortion facility during this year's national Forty Days of Life.
In Defense of Life Bishop Aquila urges priests to pray before ...

Michael Coren dishes out some compliments—and disdain for the entertainment industry
That's original

Blogger JohnOnLife takes on the duplicity of the “pro-choice” mantra
I am and I am not

New York state officials have decided to divert the millions in abstinence education funding the state receives from the federal government to comprehensive sex-ed programs.
New York State Officials Will Refuse Abstinence Education Funding

David Oliver, writer and researcher and specialist in bipolar disorder, warns that those who pressure the bipolar disorder woman facing an unplanned pregnancy into abortion may in fact be recommending something that ruins the life of women predisposed to mental illness.
Should A Woman With Bipolar Disorder Have An Abortion?

More about the mega-event in Aurora and the 40 Days for Life

From Killeen Daily Herald in Killeen Texas
Anti-abortion group prepares for 40-day protest near clinic

From Ms. Magazine
Judge Denies Injunction to Allow Aurora Planned Parenthood to Open

From Christian Newswire
Fr. Frank Pavone to Kick Off Rallies for 40 Days for Life

Heartbeat International weighs in on recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision “that deprives women of the right to hear the truth about abortion”
New Jersey Top Court Allows Doctor to Deceive Women

The Pine Log is the official newspaper of the students of Stephen F. Austin State University. Here’s an opinion piece on the morning after pill. Readers are invited to get the important truth about this dangerous medication.
Morning after pill should be easily available to all

International abortion advocate lectures at University of San Diego
Besides inviting Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh and “reproductive rights” advocate Andrea Smith to address its students during this year’s Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture Series, the University of San Diego also invited Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch supports abortion rights and same-sex marriage. The University of San Diego claims to be a “Catholic” institution of higher education
“No one should be forced to carry a pregnancy to term”

Ken Connor discusses Three Core Principles in the Christian’s approach to poverty.
Last week, the Center for a Just Society reminded Christian Post readers of a message that is unambiguous in Scripture: Christians have a responsibility to freely and generously serve the poor.
Christian Compassion and Government Responsibility

The Christian Post reports on a recent meeting of Southern Baptist leaders.
Southern Baptists Consider Denomination-Wide Response to Clergy Sex Abuse

Press Release: Vote Life, Canada! Accuses NL Media of Cover-Up And Same Double Standards as Religious Social Action Coalition

Monday, September 10, 2007

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Vote Life, Canada! Accuses NL Media of Cover-Up and Same Double Standards as Religious Social Action Coalition (RSAC) in Failing to Cover Scandalous Details of Recent Arrest of Eric Alcock

Issued by:
Vote Life, Canada!
National Address: 1075 Bay St., Suite A102-602,
Toronto, ON, M5S 2B2

Contact: Eric Alcock, President and NL Provincial Director, Vote Life, Canada! 709-773-0700

St. John’s, NL September 10/—Vote Life, Canada! thanks VOCM radio for its invitation to join Randy Simms on Open Line the day after the arrest last Wednesday past of Eric Alcock, President of Vote Life, Canada! “In so doing,” states Alcock, “VOCM proves itself as the only credible NL news source in covering the despicable actions that were taken against him and the assault upon his rights of free assembly and free speech. No other media outlet gave anything other than begrudged and biased coverage, if they covered the story at all.”

However, Alcock notes that while he appreciated the interview with Randy Simms he nevertheless takes “strong exception to Randy’s argument that due to the volatility of the subject of abortion in our society I was wrong to rain on the RSAC’s parade and run the risk of detracting from or usurping their message.”

Alcock outlines this scenario: What if our NL Premier had announced a grand scheme to address some deficient aspect of NL society? Imagine someone, let’s say a writer or journalist, upon hearing the Premier’s announcement, accused him of hypocrisy and a small minded approach to the issue. Suppose the journalist had noted he would be in attendance the next day at the Press Conference called by the premier in order to present his viewpoint.

Alcock asks, “Would anyone think that strange? Would anyone, in fact think twice about it? Isn’t this the stuff of everyday life and politics in our province? We claim to believe in vigorous open minded debate. We say it’s a healthy thing for the people of NL. A ‘loyal opposition’ is both expected and honoured in our democratic society.”

“Why then are my actions on behalf of Vote Life, Canada! viewed any differently,” asks Alcock? “The answer is all too obvious. The message advanced by Vote Life, Canada! is not politically correct and the powers that be—those that shape the thinking and attitudes of NL society, such as the RSAC and mainstream media—do not want any change in the status quo on child killing in our land. Therefore they will censor and squash all dissent in regard to that subject.”

Alcock then takes the scenario “a step further downward into its shameful depths.” Suppose the Premier or his aides, knowing that this journalist “protestor” planned to attend his Press Conference, did not want the journalist’s viewpoint being expressed there for fear that it would “detract from the message of his good initiative.” Imagine then police had been called beforehand to be present and immediately the journalist, an “unwanted visitor,” arrived, he was ushered away, amid his protests, into a paddy wagon for the duration of the press conference. Suppose one of the police officers, while taking the journalist away, mocked him: “Your little media circus is not going to work here.”

“Can anyone imagine,” asks Alcock, “that the only effort by NL media to decipher the details of such an outrageous arrest in the days following the event would be one ten minute interview on Open Line? No? That’s comforting because we didn’t really think any serious, open-minded, democratically disposed NL’ er would ever buy into such a deplorable, hypocritical cover-up. We suspect that the airwaves would still be reverberating with cries of outrage and demands for apology.”

This scandalous incident illustrates, with respect to the issue of legal child-killing in our province, who the real extremists are.

“Politically Correct” Poverty Versus True Poverty

The word poverty comes from the Latin signifying “to get little,” and in nearly universal application refers to a lack or deficiency, or to be denied adequate resources to participate meaningfully in some way in society.

It ought to be reasonably obvious then that the greatest poverty would be a denial altogether of an individual’s ability to participate in ANY way in society, i.e. a denial of their very right to live.

Such a definition clarifies the statement made by Mother Teresa that abortion is a poverty and the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today.

Poverty is an issue with men and women of good will simply because it is seen to be an injustice to the individual who lacks or who is deficient in resources, ability, etc. So what is being said is: “This is not right. Children deserve better than what they are receiving right now. They deserve everything necessary to participate meaningfully in society.”

That is the kind of thinking embraced by compassionate individuals who have great concerns about those facing poverty. Quite simply, they maintain, and rightly so, that IT IS WRONG. So poverty is an issue because justice demands that proper and rightful resources be granted the individuals in question.

Clearly, these individuals deserve basic supplies of food and clothing as well as suitable housing and education. More fundamentally however they deserve the right to life. Without that “resource” they have no ability whatsoever to participate meaningfully in society.

Considering the fact that poverty, in the narrow sense of proper food and clothing, is deemed an injustice, then the denial of that individual’s very right to live would constitute the greatest poverty and an infinitely greater injustice.

Again, in the narrow, “politically correct” sense of poverty, we see that it is only one of many kinds of injustices against children. Child abuse is another. As a society we are enraged at the thought of children being abused in any manner by adults. But which is the worse injustice: “pc poverty” or child abuse? The answer is obvious. Taken a step further, it should be equally clear that killing a child is a worse injustice than abusing a child.

Regardless of whether we frame these violations as injustices or different kinds of poverty, the worse violation of all is the killing of a child and all other injustices or poverties pale in comparison.

If one protests about “pc poverty,” maintaining that a child cannot be denied proper food, clothing, housing, etc. but says nothing when the same child’s very right to live is denied, then who will take such a person seriously?

If the deficiencies spoken of are interpreted in light of rights, a similar double standard can be seen. If one maintains that a child has a right to be properly cared for in respect to food and clothing but equivocates or is silent regarding the child’s right to live, one’s friends will scream “crazy.”

But at this point some will strongly point out that of course every child has a right to live—except those who are still in the womb. Conveniently in such cases, these Unborns, for mysterious reasons, are not considered children. Presumably, all those who are impressed with proposals to abolish “pc poverty” but pooh pooh the wider notion of poverty and injustice for Unborns, must not consider the Unborns as children. Why else would they not be protesting such grave evil and injustice aimed at the most innocent of children?

Theirs is certainly a narrow perspective on children’s rights and it is also a uninformed perspective on the question of What is the Unborn? It certainly is not a Christian view of the Unborn as confirmed by over nineteen centuries of Christian teaching and practice.

If we permit a focus on “pc poverty” and turn a blind eye to the greater poverty of abortion, what happens when there are no more children to be concerned about? Must we wait until that extreme point before considering the answers to these questions?

Parable of Poverty, Dead Children And A Religious Coalition

We are strolling down the street with representatives of the Religious Social Action Coalition. We have come from a far away country to learn strategies for dealing with poverty in our own country, having learned of the formation of this remarkable Coalition.

They are about to take us on a tour of the streets of St. John’s and show us the reality of child poverty, which they claim needs to be urgently addressed—even abolished—because children are needlessly suffering every day.

As we walk and they share with us their exciting vision of a city and a province without poverty, a horrid sight suddenly overcomes us. There on the sidewalk is the lifeless body of an extremely young child, severely lacerated and with some body parts even missing. We are immediately repulsed and horrified.

“What,” we exclaim, “has happened here to this child? Surely a great and violent crime has been perpetrated against this child and neither the criminal nor the neighbourhood has had the decency to ensure a proper burial! Furthermore it is obvious that the police have not even been called to inquire into this greatest of all injustices against an innocent child!”

Leaders of the Coalition assure us not to be alarmed. They note that we are likely to see at least three of these children in such condition in the city of St. John’s each day that we are on our tour, some of them even much younger than this child and some of them entirely in small pieces as if shredded.

We protest and demand how it is that this can be so. Leaders try to calm us and assure us that this is not a problem to be concerned with. They would like to hurry us along past the dead child and further along into the tour. But we protest further, insisting that we must know more about these heinous crimes that are taking place against innocent children in this great city of St. John’s. We simply cannot move past this child and resume the tour until the grave injustice has been explored and understood.

The Coalition emphasizes that this is not their mandate and that they have chosen to look at other ways in which they can help children and their families, poverty being what they consider to be the most pressing matter. They boast that the urgency of addressing poverty was such an animating force among the leaders of the Coalition that never before in the history of NL is there a record of such a diverse group of religious leaders from all faiths coming together with a united voice to address such a great injustice.

But immediately we ask the leaders, “But what of these children lying in the streets, violently killed and disposed of in such an inhuman, undignified manner? What of justice for them? And why did not such a diverse and powerful Coalition first come together to put an end to the evil practice of child killing in the city? Of what use is it to expend energy in feeding and clothing children when clearly many children in the city are in serious danger of being killed?”

The leaders seem somewhat shaken and at a loss to answer these penetrating questions but assure us that others are looking after the problem, and that, in fact, many residents of the city do not find the killing of these children objectionable.

We are dumbfounded by this claim, asking Coalition members what sort of callous hard hearted people live in this city. Furthermore we demand to know why it is that those who have been assigned to solve these despicable crimes have not been able to put a halt to such barbarism.

We surmise that such crimes might be the result of recent actions by some particularly heinous serial killer(s). But upon inquiry we learn that this activity has been going on for almost forty years in the city. We are totally shocked and appalled by this disclosure and immediately cancel our tour in order to return to our native country, realizing we will learn nothing from Coalition leaders about addressing any of the needs of human beings, let alone children, and admonishing the Coalition to immediately change the focus of their efforts from “abolishing poverty” to abolishing child-killing.

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[This parable needs only one distinction be made in order to clearly reflect the reality of our decrepit condition: Mothers don’t dump their children on the streets of St. John’s. It’s certainly too visible but also unnecessary. The government pays abortionists to kill their children and dispose of them in a dumpster or sell their body parts to various private enterprise firms.]

Vote Life, Canada! Video Of News Surrounding Arrest Of Eric Alcock

The shocking details of the "set-up" to arrest Eric Alcock by leaders of the Religious Social Action Coalition in St. John's, NL.

Arrested By Police For The First Time For Representing The Unborn

[Preface: No, that's not me in Ronald MacDonald outfit...it just seemed like such an appropriate picture considering the treatment I received.]

I just returned from my “visit” to The Lantern, where a Press Conference was to be held at 11AM to announce the goals of a new religious group based in St. John’s, NL, named the “Religious Social Action Coalition,” a coalition aiming to abolish poverty in the province.

My previous post carried the press release which was forwarded to the NL media late yesterday afternoon by Vote Life, Canada! after I was alerted to the Press Conference by email.

I was hoping to have an opportunity at this Conference to clarify further my concerns to the religious leaders of this coalition, some of the members of which I have met on previous occasions prior to the formation of this coalition. So I was dressed up in my Sunday best, hoping to say a few words on behalf of the Unborn of Newfoundland and Labrador and of Canada.

I should have suspected something was cooking when I walked inside the building and around the corner were two police officers in full uniform. It was about five minutes before the conference was due to start. Walking past them and into the Conference room, it was only perhaps two minutes before a burly looking gentleman approached me with outreached hand, asking me my name, to which I responded. Immediately he grasped my hand tightly as if to hold me in that exact position while informing me that I was not welcome there and that I must immediately leave.

I was rather stunned at this rare gesture of welcome and advised him that the Coalition’s announcement that was issued indicated that it was a public event and that all were welcome. He said he would call for the police to remove me if I did not leave immediately and then motioned to another man who was listening to the conversation to fetch the police. I asked the burly gentleman why I could not stay and he told me that I had said some very bad things about them in yesterday’s press release and that I must immediately leave.

By that time the police arrived, telling me that my invitation was rescinded by these people and that I must immediately leave the premises, which were private property, or failing that, I would be removed by police.

It was becoming a little bit of a scene with voices being raised but no yelling or screaming. Since my knees felt a little weak, the officers promptly took me by the shoulders, body and bones, and literally dragged me out of the building, all the while I was yelling loudly so people could hear me “Poverty begins with the Unborn! Poverty begins with the Unborn!”

The officers took me to the paddy wagon [no handcuffs!], making sure on the way to inform me that my little media circus was not going to work. They locked me up for the hour that the Conference was taking place. I heard them discussing various things outside the police wagon and then finally they released me, saying they were not going to lay charges. They didn't call it an arrest. They noted that they had simply "detained" me.

Sure felt like an arrest.

I’ve had no calls from media yet although I suspect I will soon enough. As the officers were dragging me out, a news photographer was taking pictures and other media were present as well.

Obviously the religious leaders, many of them “Christians,” did not wish to have their hypocrisy highlighted. They had planned to silence me entirely before I could even say a word and they had arranged for the local police to act as their thugs and bouncers.

More on this story to come.

By the way, the statement that I hoped to make at the conference, given the opportunity, appears below.

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I am here today to represent the poorest children of NL—those who are denied the right to live. Those who will never get to the point of worrying about how much food, clothing, housing or education they receive. 

And I apologize to anyone here today who has gone on record publicly to denounce legalized child-killing. Looking over the names on this list I was not aware that anyone there had made announcements to newspapers or radios protesting the atrocity taking place in our midst. Nor do I remember seeing any of the above named individuals protesting in front of the local abortuary where five or six hundred little children each year are cut to pieces or suctioned to death. 

So pardon me, but I didn’t know anyone here was concerned about the challenges that the children of NL face. 

Forgive me.  

Today you are here to announce the fact that you ARE concerned about children after all. You want to see that children receive proper food, clothing, housing and education.  

This is a good thing. As I said in our press release, this is noble. 

However, what I find curious is that there still is no mention made of the children being ripped out of the womb. Does that concern the Religious Social Action Coalition? Is that not the greatest injustice taking place against children in this province? Shouldn’t that at least be stated as such by the Coalition?

Perhaps the Coalition is not ready at this time to tackle such a monstrous evil but shouldn’t they at least state for the record that this is the worst injustice taking place against children? 

Without such an acknowledgement the Coalition’s project has no credibility. How does the Coalition expect that poverty can be addressed—even abolished—while child killing is permitted? Will politicians respect a child’s right to be fed and clothed as long as they don’t respect the child’s right to live? 

But what the Coalition is really saying is this:

"Abortion? Oh, we’ve given up on that objective. That’s now legal and well accepted in our society, so whether it is or isn’t the greatest form of child abuse is irrelevant. People want it and accept it and the government says it’s legal so we’ll leave it at that.

We must work on achievable goals." 

I therefore have a question for the Coalition:

If the government passes a law today which says that the poor are entitled to no more than is currently available to them, will the Social Action Coalition then move on to another goal? 

Do you not see the hypocrisy oozing from this whole scenario? 

Do children have certain rights or not? Do they even have the right to live? That is the question.

Press Release: Vote Life, Canada! Warns St. John's Religious Social Action Coalition Of Blindness & Hypocrisy

In response to an email yesterday asking for support for a group calling themselves the Religious Social Action Coalition, whose goal is to abolish poverty in Newfoundland, Vote Life Canada! issued the following press release to various media throughout Newfoundland:

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Vote Life, Canada! Recognizes the Noble Objective of the Religious Social Action Coalition to Abolish Poverty but Warns Them to Advocate First for Unborn Children In Order to Avoid Charges of Blindness and Hypocrisy

Issued by:
Vote Life, Canada!
National Address: 1075 Bay St., Suite A102-602,
Toronto, ON, M5S 2B2

Contact: Eric Alcock, President and NL Provincial Director, Vote Life, Canada! 709-773-0700

St. John’s, NL September 4—Vote Life, Canada! has learned of the existence and goals of the Religious Social Action Coalition of Newfoundland & Labrador and of a Press Conference Wednesday, September 5 at 11AM at The Lantern, 35 Barnes Road.

Does this Coalition of well meaning religious leaders not recognize the hypocrisy in their efforts?

How is it possible that Christian leaders and other men and women of good faith can call on the people of NL, and more particularly its politicians, to make poverty a voting issue when every year nearly 1000 little children are violently killed in the womb in this province and the virtual silence of those same leaders is deafening?

Furthermore, every child killing which takes place in this province is perfectly “legal” in the sight of our society and is paid for by taxpayer dollars, the same dollars which could be channeled to feed and clothe other children. Yet these same leaders do not protest.

To what depths of blindness and hypocrisy have our leaders descended?

Have any leaders of this coalition been seen protesting the dismemberment and poisoning of unborn children which takes place daily in our very city? Yet they now pretend to be concerned about hungry children.

The saddest and most naïve element of their plan is that they expect that poverty can be addressed—even abolished—while child killing is permitted. Will politicians respect a child’s right to be fed and clothed as long as they don’t respect the child’s right to live?

Leaders of this coalition are not thinking straight. What sort of fairy tale world are they living in?

Vote Life, Canada! will be in attendance tomorrow at the press conference, representing the unborn children of this province. Eric Alcock, President and NL Provincial Director of Vote Life, Canada! will be ready to sign up on the spot for membership in the Social Action Coalition—just as soon as the Coalition calls for legalized abortion as the number one voting issue in the upcoming NL election.