‘18 Terrace Review — Wednesday, September 30, 1987

Anti-abortion = |
— group marches }

TERRACE — About 50 Pro-
‘Life supporters joined a protest
march from the public library to
city hall last Saturday in spite of
cold weather and threatening
rain, co
In a brief address to the pro-
testers at city hall, Pro-Life
organizer Isobel Brophy said, ‘'I
know the sacrifice this involves
for many. Many of us have an
inherent dislike of public pro-
tests and don’t like the image of
marches — but walk we must.
“Our walk, the public
demonstration of our belief that
abortion is the wrong answer to
the problem of an unwanted
Pregnancy, is what is important
today.”
In an earlier interview,
-Brophy gave examples of in-
justice that she said demon-
strated the need for the Pro-Life
movement to be active in
Canada. — So ,
According to Brophy, police
constable Dave Packer, the
father of five children and
decorated twice for bravery,
. faces possible suspension from
his job for refusing to perform
guard duty outside the Morgen-
taler abortion clinic. ;
Brophy said Packer had stated
that he would not “guard a
place where pre-born babies are
killed,’’

In another irsistance, she said’

that Cecilia Moore, a Ministry}.
of Social Services and Housing~ |

employee, was fired for failing
to sign financial assistance
Papers for a teenage female
client wanting an abortion even
though the girl’s doctor had .
signed a statement saying he did
not believe an abortion to be
necessary.

Brophy also told the story of
Jim Demers, a central B.C. resi-
dent who chose to spend 30 days
in jail rather than pay the fine
for replacing a suction abortion
machine he had taken from a
local hospital.

Brophy said that in Vernon, -

Richmond, Surrey, Powell River
and Kelowna, abortions had
been drastically reduced by a
“commitment to protect the
health of the unborn child as
well as the mother’s health’’ but
the same was not true at Kam-
loops or Lions Gate Hospitals
where Pro-Life boards had lost
recent elections.

She also expressed disappoint-
ment in the Vander Zalm gov-
ernment who, after the premier
had said he was opposed to
abortion, allocated only
$250,000 for developing and
supporting services to pregnant
women.

__. National Family
_ Week approaching

The third annual Canadian
National Family Week will be
held October 5 - 11 this year.

Initiated by Family Service
Canada, National Family Week
coincides with the Thanksgiving
season to demonstrate the im-
portance of family and to draw
‘public attention to the need of
preserving the strength and in-
tegrity of the family.

*“We all need to focus from
time to time on the irreplaceable

and irrefutable role of the family
in shaping our lives and the
world we live in,’’ notes Dr.
Carol Matusicky, Executive
Director of the B.C. Council for
the Family.

Our families are something
special. Plan to spend a little ex-
tra time during National Family
Week enjoying your family, It is
within our families that we first
learn to trust, love, arid care for
others.

Smoley of Beutle Masonary was one of thres workers adding
tly completed walls of the bandahell in George Little

it
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About 50 Pro-Life supporters joined a protest march from the Terrace Public Libra

ry to city hall last Saturday in spite

of cold weather and threatening rain. in a brief address to the protesters Pro-Life organizer Isobel Brophy, said “| know
the sacrifice this involves for many. Many of us have an inherent disilke of public protests and don't like the image of

marches — but walk we must.”

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