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By Hilary White
  HAMILTON, Ontario, March 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hamilton’s McMaster University pro-life student group, LifeLine, is working hard to bring the message of the sanctity of life to students, faculty and the community at large. After the successes of last year’s project, Lifeline will be hosting a visit March 29 from the Silent No More campaign in which those who have lived through the trauma of abortions demonstrate and talk about their losses and healing. 

  Silent No More will be present for two gatherings, one at 12 noon and again at 1:30pm in the Student Centre.

  The Silent No More Awareness gathering involves men and women who have been hurt by abortion sharing their stories of abortion and healing. Angelina Steenstra, the Canadian Director of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign told LifeSiteNews.com that after such presentations, speakers are available for private conversation. 
 
  At one such event which took place at the annual March for Life in Ottawa, a woman named Chantal was struck by the lingering pain from a previous abortion she had not attended to. After working through her painful experience, she was back the next year as a speaker for Silent No More Awareness Campaign.

  Last year, LifeLine held the first ever public debate on abortion at the school, between seasoned pro-life apologist Stephanie Gray, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform and Fiona Simpson, a third year molecular biology student and member of the McMaster debate society.

  In the same week, LifeLine staged a full-sized display of photos of aborted children combined with skilled and well-ordered debate with passers by.

  The project was entitled simply “Unmasking Choice,” and was well received by students and faculty. Johanna Miller, president of LifeLine, told LifeSiteNews.com, “From the responses of the students it was obvious that many had never been exposed to the pro-life message before.”

  The LifeLine website says, “University is a place to be informed of the facts, to be critical of commonly held beliefs, and to engage in honest and open debate. The student founders of the group told LifeSiteNews.com that though they had already formed with the National Campus Life Network, it was their participation in the March for Life in Ottawa in 2005 that sparked growth and activism in the club.

  Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
  Abortion Debate Reveals Canada’s Lack of Abortion Law Cannot be Defended
  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031712.html

  Astonishing Success of Pro-Life Project at Canadian University
  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031506.html

  Visit McMaster’s Lifeline group website:
  https://www.mcmasterlifeline.com/