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Volume XXXIX | Issue #1 | spRING 2020 INSIDE NATIONAL CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS pp. 4-9 LIFE CHAIN 2019 pp. 12-13 FEDERAL ELECTION ANALYSIS pp. 14-15 SkProLife SaskProLife SaskProLife PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Thus, by the Grace of God go I by Valerie life, comprising the single strongest Hettrick issue-based voice in parliament. The response to the liberal’s assisted suicide Calendar of We have begun consultation was so overwhelming that another year in it crashed the website on multiple the pro-life battle. occasions. ordinary Canadians want events In this issue of ClN their voices heard: vulnerable persons FEbRuARY 26 - APRIL 5: 40 Hours you will see some must be protected! for Life, Regina General Hospital, 14th of the great work Ave. every day 4:30-5:30. organized by done by sask pro- perhaps nowhere is the surface-level Regina pro-life Association life and others. view more misleading than the DART Thanks to our dedicated staff, volunteers poll. The apparent pro-choice/pro-life APRIL 3-4: Sask Pro-Life Annual and board of directors, we continue to divide masks the true story. late-term Convention, martensville, sK. One surge forward. We eagerly anticipate abortion is opposed by 70% of Small Step: Families coming hosting our annual Gala and Convention Canadians; a strong minority of 43% together to effect change in the April 3-4, 2020, in martensville, sask. We oppose abortion after three months’ pro-life movement. Join us for a appeal to our long-standing supporters gestation. only 18% of Canadians family-friendly Friday night Gala and but also to a whole new generation of support the current legal fiction that life saturday Conference; learn how to pro-life warriors. With the Knights of begins at birth. build a Culture of life through simple Columbus and Campaign life Coalition and effective steps. Register: sK, we will also host the annual march This poll is not an outlier. A massive 80% saskprolife.com/convention or call for life in Regina on may 9, 2020. see support a ban on sex-selective abortion (306) 992-6941 ads in this issue, or our website, for more (public square, 2019), 64% of women information. support legal restrictions on abortion APRIL 17: Potashville Respect for (Angus Reid, 2018), and a majority in Life Spaghetti Supper, langenburg At the end of 2019, the situation seemed every party other than the liberals evangelical Fellowship, 410 Wells Ave grim--at least on the surface. The supports a late-term abortion ban e, langenburg, sK. 6:00 pm. Guest radically pro-abortion Justin Trudeau (Insights West, 2016). speaker, Alex schadenberg. Tickets won another federal election. His $12/person, $25/Family. Contact Gerd Conservative counterpart Andrew We are not naïve. Is progress slow and Reetz: (306) 896-2904; Arnold scheer spent much of that campaign painful? Yes. When we consider the lives petracek: (306) 745-6210; Donna hiding from his pro-life values and has lost each day, it seems agonizingly slow. elhard: (306) 743-3226 since resigned. The liberals asked But to save even one life can set the Canadians to consider extending world ablaze. Consider how the Christ assisted suicide to children and the Child’s life was spared from Herod’s APRIL 24: Moose Jaw Right to Life mentally ill. A DART poll reported that wrath. Through Jesus the whole world banquet, Church of our lady 62% of Canadians consider themselves was changed. We have work to do, Community Hall, 566 Vaughan st sW, pro-choice, while only 13% consider starting now. moose Jaw. main speaker, Denise themselves pro-life. mountenay. Doors open: 6:00pm | The race for the Conservative leadership Dinner: 6:30pm Tickets: Adults $20; mainstream media trumpets this as the is well underway. The candidates know Table of 8- $150; High school students end of the debate. “The fight is over; that they need pro-life support to win. $10; Table of 8- $70; Clergy: time to hang up the gloves and turn off Already we have seen some candidates complimentary. Tickets: (306) 694- the lights.” many of us may feel the same reach out and “welcome” pro-lifers 4111, email: [email protected] way: discouraged, defeated, even angry. within the party. However, being But this view misses the point: although “welcome” to sit down and be quiet is MAY 7: Regina Pro-Life banquet, st. it’s difficult to see sometimes, we’re not going to cut it. If leadership martin de porres parish, 4720 Castle winning battles. candidates want our support, they need Rd, Regina, sK. Guest speaker, Carol to earn it. Roy. Tickets: Adults $25; Teens $15; The supposedly toxic pro-life views of Children (5-12) $10; under 5 FRee. Andrew scheer didn’t stop over 6.1 Be ready. Ice your wounds and tape up Tickets: (306) 569-1983, email: million Canadians from voting for him to your gloves. The next round is about to [email protected] become the prime minister--he gleaned begin, and we’re not going anywhere. a higher percentage of the popular vote God bless your families and thank you MAY 9: Sask March for Life, begins at than any other leader. At least two-thirds for the prayers and support that you Holy Rosary Cathedral, 2104 Garnet st. see ad page 11 of the 26 new Conservative mps are pro- send our way. Y 2 SPRING 2020 | EDITORIAL For Joan and John and Everyone in between By Mariette Ulrich communication, listening, and At the same time, my thoughts and understanding—with an emphasis not prayers and well wishes went to another last November I just on knowledge and skills, but the hospital far away, where a friend’s attended the very great need for wisdom. premature baby was struggling for her national pro-life life. Via her mom’s Facebook page, I conference in In his opening remarks, the conference checked in on tiny Joan, born at 26 Calgary, along emcee acknowledged that various weeks, weighing 1lb, 10 oz. many with several splA groups in the pro-life movement have people’s prayers were answered: three board members not always seen eye to eye regarding months and three-odd pounds later, and other how best to defend life. He called for an Joan was discharged and is now saskatchewan pro-lifers. We joined over attitude of openness and respect for thriving at home. 200 participants from across Canada for each other’s calling as we all strive to a historic conference: the first time that save lives and serve the marginalized many prayed for my dad as he suffered a national pro-life gathering was co- and vulnerable in society. towards his journey’s end; the lord sponsored by four organizations: life called Dad to his eternal home on Dec. Canada, the Canadian Centre for Bio- I care deeply about all life issues, but the 14. Both of these individuals are ethical Reform (CCBR), We Need a law, talks that resonated most pertained to infinitely precious in the eyes of God-- and Right Now. euthanasia and assisted suicide. perhaps and should be to all of society. Yet the it is because of my age: not only is my culture of death holds sway: people like Appropriately, the conference theme generation dealing with elderly parents’ them end up on the scrap heap of was “Change is in the Air.” Through the healthcare issues, but we foresee our humanity nearly every day in our last four decades of pro-life work, I have own inevitable death. euthanasia seems formerly God-fearing nation. seen many changes: not just specific to follow a trajectory: it starts out being cultural issues, but also methods of “permitted,” then “encouraged,” then It should not be so. We must pray, engagement. As the saying goes: “pushed”…and ends up being advocate, and work tirelessly to change “Change is the only constant,” and pro- compulsory (hello, Nazi Germany). the status quo. pray for the elderly, sick lifers must keep pace with the constant and dying—and all who travel the path changes in society. We face challenges As I listened to the talks, I felt I might be of true compassion with them. pray for today that our grandparents could not called to minister to the dying—but I preemies, their families, and hospital have dreamed of (such as the bizarre had no idea how soon it would happen, staff who care for them. most of all, pray and dangerous manifestations of or how close to home. Barely a week for those politicians and ‘healthcare’ “gender theory” being promoted by the later, I received word that my 93-year- providers whose answer to suffering is courts, media, and academia). old father, John, had been hospitalized. killing the helpless, weak, and Guilt was added to fear and distress: I vulnerable among us. Y The national conference held had not seen him for months. my something for everyone, young and old. husband’s gruelling work schedule, two Fifty years of abortion in Canada means daughters’ weddings, and other serious the early pro-life activists are growing family issues had kept us from travelling old; thirty-plus years since the 1988 the 330 km to Dad’s assisted living morgentaler Decision means our young facility. pro-lifers have never known a nation without wide-open abortion. We cleared our calendar and went to see him. In fact, I managed two trips in In this issue of Choose Life News , we are the last four weeks of his life. During the covering just a few of the many topics, first visit, he was still able to speak and workshops, and presentations given at sit up.