Life and Passion

Pro-Life demonstrations (our Annual Life Chain [scroll down to Oct 1st], for example), bring out the worst in people sometimes. I still remember picketing outside the abortion clinic in Vancouver and some guy yelling from a passing car: "Get a real job!". A combination of slow wit and great passion istm. So reading Peter Sean Bradley's comments at Lex Communis after looking at the pictures of the San Francisco March for Life brought back memories.

There's usually several middle fingers when we stand silently on the roadside holding our signs, mostly "Abortion Hurts Women" and "Abortion Kills Children". Hatred and incomprehension can be read into some of the expressions we see (and hear). The angry, abusive and occasionally violent are not the pro-lifers. But don't get me going about the silly, one-sided portrayals of pro-lifers on tv, especially my otherwise favourite, Law and Order.

So go look at the pictures and decide for yourself: what is all this controversy really about?