For the first time ever Campaign Life has entered a school board election. Some 20,000 leaflets were distributed by Campaign Life BC in Vancouver at the end of January 1986. The leaflets endorsed Non-Partisan Association candidate Pam Glass and independent candidate Ean Rankin and warned the public against the nine Committee of Progressive Electors (COPE) candidates.
The Vancouver Sun reported Anita Parker saying that Campaign Life opposes Planned Parenthood representatives entering classrooms and giving teenage students advice about birth control.
COPE organizer Margaret Birrell acknowledged the group’s right to take part in the election. However, she objected to the tactic of bringing it out in the last few days of the campaign. “You don’t have a chance to respond to it either through the media or open-line shows,” she said.
