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American Pro-abortion Leader a No-Show for Debate: Replaced with Canadian Pro-Abort

By Elizabeth O'Brien

CALGARY, August 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a last minute substitution, a top American abortion advocate, who was scheduled to debate with pro-life leader Stephanie Gray, was replaced with a Canadian representative, while the debate format itself was scrapped, and replaced with an interview format.

Pro-lifers across Canada were waiting expectantly last night to hear Stephanie Gray, the Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform (CCBR), discuss the recent abortion billboard truck campaign. She was set to be interviewed with U.S. National Abortion Federation (NAF) representative Vicki Suporta on CKNW 980's "Nightline BC."
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LifeSiteNews.com published a story yesterday entitled "Non-Canadian Abortion Advocate Recruited to Face Young Pro-Life Leader," which indicated that one of the abortion side's top U.S. representatives was going to join Gray on the show. After the story was published, however, Saporta was pulled out, and Canadian NAF director Dawn Fowler filled her place.

Stephanie Gray told LifeSiteNews.com that she had understood that she would be facing Vicki Saporta and that the show would involve some measure of debate. Thus, she was surprised to find out at the last minute, that it would be a non-debate format.

Gray was allowed to speak first and also received more time on the air. The host Michael Smyth listened to her and asked questions for about 15 minutes. Fowler was then interviewed separately, such that no interaction between the two was possible. Gray tried calling the program back during Fowler's interview, but no one answered her calls.

Nevertheless Gray's pro-life case was so strongly presented that Fowler was unable to refute it afterwards. During the ten minutes in which Fowler was allowed to speak, one of her main tactics was evasion. Host Smyth was clearly dissatisfied with Fowler's responses. He asked her why she believed that the abortion images are misleading. Avoiding the issue, however, Fowler referred to the CCBR website as untrue because it claimed that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer.

Convinced by Gray's arguments, Smyth continued to press the point, saying that the website isn't the same thing as the abortion pictures. He also noted that Gray made a good case.
 
Read previous LifeSiteNews coverage:

Non-Canadian Abortion Advocate Recruited to Face Young Pro-Life Leader
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07081407.html

Abortion Billboard Trucks Cause Media Uproar, Provoke Pro-Abortion Advocate to Publicly Debate Issue
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07081406.html

Graphic Abortion Billboard Trucks Break Through Canada's Media Blackout
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07080906.html

 

 

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