For the second time this month, a display of 10,000 pink and blue flags, each one representing 10 pre-born children who are aborted in Canada every year, will be on display in Kelowna.
The display will be set up along Gordon Drive today until 6 p.m. near Evangel Church.
Recent statistics have shown that the number of abortions in British Columbia are on the decline, though accurate numbers are nearly impossible to obtain.
Dozens of community volunteers associated with the group “We Need a Law” will be setting up the display and educating passerbyers on Canada’s lack of an abortion law.
“Canada is the only democracy in the entire world that does not have any legal restraint on abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy. Communist China and North Korea are the only other countries with zero protection for unborn babies,” said event organizer Marietta Egan.
“We are doing this to show to our community just how massive the numbers really ar. Although our political leaders claim that abortion should be safe, legal and rare, these flags show that it is happening an astonishing 100,000 times every year in Canada. That is anything but rare.
“The Supreme Court of Canada, in the 1988 Morgentaler decision, made it very clear that it is Parliament’s responsibility to enact an abortion law. It has been over 25 years since then and still we do not have a law.”
