Campaign Life Coalition’s Defund Abortion efforts kicked off in Newfoundland on the weekend and will launch in the capitals of Alberta, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia tomorrow (October 3). It will also continue in Ontario in the form of mini-protests at the constituency offices of more than 50 MPPs (find out where here by typing in your postal code). Organizers are encouraging a Tweet-a-thon:
To ensure that this campaign is NOT ignored by politicians or the media, we are also having a Tweet-A-Thon the day of the rallies- Thursday, October 3rd- from 9am until 5pm. Be sure to tweet as many times as you can throughout the day and invite your friends to do the same using the hashtag #defundabortion …
Let’s get the hashtag #defundabortion trending so that this message reaches as many people across Canada as possible!
CLC Youth is encouraging using the following messages:
Ontario taxpayers spend $50 million a year on abortion! NOT from my wallet! #defundabortion
If abortion is about the “right to choose”, I want the right to choose whether or not my tax-dollars go towards abortion #defundabortion
Ontario spends $50 mill on abortion. W $50 mill ON could hire 200 doctors,400 nurses,treat 500 additional autistic children #defundabortion
Kill babies with tax-dollars? Not from my wallet!! #defundabortion
You could also include your provincial political hashtags: #ManPoli #AbPoli #OnPoli #NSPoli.
The move to the ridings in Ontario follows two protests at Queen’s Park in the past few years. See our coverage of the March 2013 protest and the inaugural defund abortion demonstration in October 2011, and a previous constituency-level protest in 2012.
