A crowd of supporters joined Moose Jaw Right to Life president Jean Landry and vice president Ron Hardy in a peaceful demonstration on Oct. 6, lining the 600 block of Main St.
Each attendee carried a sign with a pro-life message, some of which referenced topics such as abortion, euthanasia, and the importance of all lives.
The Right to Life group in the city organizes the event every year in October, in conjunction with the national Life Chain campaign. Across Canada and the United States, individuals and groups gathered in their own communities to do the same thing simultaneously, as a show of solidarity.
The event is meant to be a peaceful hour of prayer to reflect on the “sanctity of all life,” according to the event’s Facebook page.
“It attempts to waken our public conscience by exposing the truth that abortion results in the death of a child and mother’s need support and not abortion,” said the group’s official press release. “If our elderly feel loved and valued, they will not seek to be euthanized.”
Landry continues to organize the annual demonstration for that reason, but also because she hopes it provides some exposure for the Right to Life’s existence.
“We're pro-life, and we're pro-woman and pro-baby, pro-elderly, pro-disabled. We're for everyone that is vulnerable, and I think sometimes people get the wrong idea, that we're 'against women,' but we're not,” said Landry. “We just want everybody to know that we're there for them, in a positive way.”
The annual demonstration has been going on in Moose Jaw since the 1970s. Supporters stood on Main Street for about an hour.
