Opinion

MONTAGUE, Prince Edward Island (LifeSiteNews.com) – I’m not interested in commenting on the ACTIVE-8 campaign now that the results have been announced. I am, however, interested in sharing this little story for all who are interested in reading it. It is designed solely to help you to see things from the perspective of a pro-lifer who would like to believe that she lives in a democratic country.

There once was a contest for youth leadership. One of the persons up for the award was a pro-abortion activist. Naturally, when a pro-life citizen became aware of this, she passed information on to pro-life youths who could then vote and have their say in who wins the contest. An e-mail was sent from a pro-life lady to some pro-life youths. What a terrible crime this person was accused of committing. She was criticized and maligned by the media for doing such a shocking thing, trying to encourage pro-life youths to vote against a youth who vowed to promote the culture of death. “How shocking,” they said.

The story does not end there. The pro-life youths tried to vote, but, alas, their votes were not accepted unless they took the word “abortion” out of their pledges. But wait a minute, something is inconsistent here. The pro-abortion candidate was voting on a platform solely about abortion. Many of her pledges were in support of abortion and a high number of her pledges had the word “abortion” in them. Do you see the inconsistency now? Youths can vote for abortion but if they happen to be against abortion, they can’t vote. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that something is very wrong here.

After the votes from the pro-life youths were discarded, the person they were voting for nevertheless remained in the lead after the votes were counted. What a dilemma for the organizers! What could the poor organizers do? Well, they delayed announcing the winner and in the end they called it a “close final tally”. The poor public was left in the dark, but those interested in the real story knew the truth. It wasn’t a tie at all, and it would not have been a “close final tally” if all votes had been counted.

Last week, Matthew Falman of Saskatchewan Youth LifeGroup voted for Brinston with the following pledge:

“I pledge to support my own brother and others with Down Syndrome. I pledge to spread awareness that all Down Syndrome children have the right to live out their beautiful lives. I pledge to end the statistic that 9 out of 10 Down Syndrome children are aborted because of the myth that their’s is a lesser quality of life!” Falman’s pledge was rejected, as were many others.

The point is this story is that in an event that was to bring together “8 young Atlantic Canadians who are an inspiration for all of us who dream of a better world” the principles of fundamental justice were abused many times over throughout the campaign. First, there was the misuse of a personal e-mail — which was really nobody’s business except the person who sent it — to ridicule the pro-life motives of its author. Second, there was the criticism and malignant of the author in an attempt to cast the entire pro-life movement in a bad light. Third, pro-life Canadian youths were denied their fundamental right to vote and to express themselves as they so choose.

To me this is the real story and it is a sad story.

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