The Alberta Signature Campaign, planned to coincide with Edmonton’s Respect for Life Week, was a huge success. Paid advertisements were inserted in six Alberta dailies. The ads consisted of 37,824 lines of names of those supporting the right lo life of every individual from conception to natural death.

This figure is even more impressive than it appears. People signed as individuals or as families, so it is no exaggeration to say there are an estimated 40,000 Albertans represented.

Pro-abortion groups tried unsuccessfully to block the ads. Complaints went to the Ombudsmen of several of the papers saying that newspapers were public vehicles not to be used for propaganda purposes. The signature drive, coordinated by Kathleen Both, national chairman of Campaign Life, was the result of close cooperation between 23 Albertan pro-life groups.