Come March for Life this coming Thursday in Ottawa

OTTAWA - This year’s National March for Life in Ottawa May 7-9 will honour the 60th anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The theme of the three-day event, is “Life — the first human right.” The theme is based on the declaration’s preamble which recognizes the “inherent dignity” and “equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family,” as set out in the declaration’s preamble, as well as Article 3, which says “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”

Despite Canada’s signing this declaration, it is the only developed country that has no laws protecting the unborn child.

“We won’t rest until there is a law to protect the unborn,” said Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) national organizer Mary Ellen Douglas. “We want to highlight that without the right to live, all the other rights don’t fall into place. The right to live is the most basic thing.”

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The May 8 March will feature speeches by Alveda King, Martin Luther King’s niece, who is part of the group Silent No More that represents women and men who regret their involvement in abortion. When King spoke at this year’s National March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, she described abortion as a civil rights issue.

“When you kill a baby you are taking away that baby’s civil rights,” she said. “My civil rights were also affected, because my life was deeply damaged.”