By John-Henry Westen
OTTAWA, January 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Andrea Mrozek, Manager of Research and Communications for the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, has launched a new venture of her own – a new woman-focused pro-life group. Beginning with a group blog, the group – ProWomanProLife – aims to take a non-partisan, non-religious stand against the idea that abortion is good for women and, furthermore, that it is not only a choice, but a “right.”
“We have no hidden agenda here but a very open one: To eradicate abortion in Canada, not by legislation or force, but because that is what women choose,” says Mrozek in a press release issued today, announcing her venture. “Women should band together to remove abortion from our cultural landscape,” she says.
Mrozek is joined by a board of five professional women: Brigitte Pellerin in Ottawa, Raji Shankar in Toronto, Rebecca Walberg in Winnipeg and Dr. Sheryl Alger and psychologist Teresa Fraser in Calgary.
ProWomanProLife celebrates women, life and freedom, and is being launched to mark the Morgentaler decision of January 28, 1988, which removed all restrictions on abortion in Canada at any stage of a pregnancy.
Mrozek notes that abortion has become a pressing issue of freedom of speech. “Pro-lifers are told what they can and can’t say in politics, and pro-life clubs are currently being banned on our university campuses. No Canadian should be comfortable with this suppression of dialogue, irrespective of how they feel about abortion,” Mrozek said.
Mrozek told LifeSiteNews.com that she has a long term plan to get involved with crisis pregnancy centers. “Our long-term goal is to become a charity that offers women better choices,” she said.
Mrozek, 31, has encountered success as a freelance writer, being picked up in the National Post, and has worked in the past for the Western Standard and the Fraser Institute.
Launched yesterday, Mrozek described the venture as a “hobby,” noting that her full-time work at the Focus on the Family’s Institute of Marriage and Family Canada will continue.
“The first step,” she says, “is to raise our voices against the conventional, harmful wisdom that a willingness to kill her unborn child liberates a woman.”
See the new group’s website here:
https://www.prowomanprolife.org/