Campaign Life’s Ray Kirkham, of Delta, was among the 50 to 60 members of Surrey-Delta Pro-Life and Campaign Life who picketed the Surrey Inn on Wednesday, November 16. Inside, Iona Campagnolo, President of the Federal Liberal Party, was addressing a gathering of some 200 women, sponsored by the Liberal Party. Ms. Campagnolo, who is believed to have aspirations towards the leadership of the Liberal Party, makes no secret of her pro-abortion stance and pro-lifers across Canada want the Liberals to know that the majority of Canadians does not share her views.
Ray reports that Ms. Campagnolo told the picketers that she agrees that life begins a conception but she does not regard abortion as murder. She said, “People should be more sexually responsible”. She does not see that a freer access to abortion has decreased sexual responsibility.
Heather Stilwell, President of Surrey-Delta Pro-Life and spokesman for the pro-lifers, was quoted in the Surrey Leader describing Ms. Campagnolo as “a dangerous type of person: she can say the most unreasonable things in the most reasonable way. She is very suave and cool.”
A number of young people of 14-23 years of age were present, and the unanimous pro-life stand seemed to have Ms. Campagnolo visibly shaken.
The successful hour-long picketing prompted Ray to state the following: “The new phase of the abortion issue which we have entered, a utilitarian morality, is made abundantly clear when we see people like (Ms.) Campagnolo who agree that life begins at conception, yet rationalize the killing of unborn children. More than ever with all our strength we must fight duplicity and evil abuses of pro-abortionists who attempt to hide under a veil called “choice,” a veil that cannot hide the fact that they mean “choice to kill unborn children from the ravages of the abortion hordes.”
