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May 7, 2009 Abortion kills about 300 Canadians each day according to various speakers at the annual Regina Pro-Life March for Life and fund raising banquet held May 7. It was a day-long event for about 300 people including many who travelled to Regina starting with the March for Life at 10 am from Christ the King Parish to the Legislative Building for a rally and ending in the evening with the fund raising banquet held at St. Mary’s Parish Hall. The March snaked along sidewalks of two major thoroughfares attracting attention with many banners decrying abortion. The rally included prayer and several speakers including Moose Jaw North MLA Warren Michelson all of whom decried abortion and encouraged continued efforts to end the practice. The marchers returned to Christ the King by 4 pm for Mass and the banquet followed at St. Mary’s Hall. Guest speakers Jojo Ruba, co-founder of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform and Leah Hallman, a third-year biology student and President of the University of Calgary Pro-Life Club spoke about becoming a pro-life ambassador. “Politicians,” he said, “respond to voters and you have to lobby the voters who vote for the politicians.” The problem he said is reaching the people who don’t show up at events like these. Social reform movements have always used graphic images to get their messages out and he showed photos and graphics of slave ships and a murdered black boy that were used to stop the slave trade and end segregation in the American south. Hallman said she joined the Pro-Life club at the University of Calgary after becoming aware of the Holocaust. “I wondered how human beings could do that to other human beings. I thought that if I were alive at that time I would have done something.” She said the same thing is happening now through abortions. The club began the Genocidal Awareness Project (GAP) showing huge photographs of abortion and the Holocaust side by side and held demonstrations on the University of Calgary campus. The University eventually ordered them off the campus and threatened arrest, suspension and expulsion. Those actions could impact on their future careers but the group decided “you cannot put off doing good in the present for the possibility of doing good in the future,” They persisted and club members were charged with trespassing. Their trials are scheduled in November this year. Hallman said she has not yet been suspended and continues to attend classes. Regina Qu’Appelle MP Andrew Scheer, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and Don Toth, Speaker of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly and MLA for Moosomin both brought greetings on behalf of their governments and encouraged the audience to continue working on behalf of the unborn. Frank Flegel 
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