The CBC reported 9,000 to 10,000, CTV’s Question Period with Craig Oliver reported 15,000 and both showed video clips of the 2010 March for Life in Ottawa, May 13. The Hamilton Spectator also put the tally at 15,000 and referred to themarchers as “pro-life” instead of the “anti-abortion” label the media usually hang on us.

The official count from Campaign Life Coalition was 12,500, which was an increase from last year. Among them were a group of Halton Pro-Life members and a contingent of 120 students from the pro-life clubs of the eight Halton region Catholic high schools.

The Armageddon Factor?

Fortuitously, the publication of a controversial book, The Armageddon Factor, coincided with the March, giving the TV news the opportunity to interview its author, Marci McDonald. To spice up the graphics of the interviews, both CBC and CTV broadcast pictures of the marchers carrying their signs proclaiming Justice For The Unborn, Let Them Live, She’s a Child not a Choice (with a graphic of a baby in a mother’s womb) and the other banners and placards pro-lifers are proud to display. In past years, the national news outlets have ignored the March for Life. This year, our messages were beamed from coast to coast.

800 students attended the inaugural Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) youth banquet Thursday night where they heard the testimony of Melissa Ohden, who is alive only because she survived a saline-infusion abortion and was left to die.

Abortion funding and coercion

Cardinal Marc Ouelett addressed the crowd on Parliament Hill comparing Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s conviction not to fund abortions in the developing world to the fact that taxpayers fund abortions at home in Canada. (Click here for HPL’s commentary on abortion funding and

The Cardinal was joined by other bishops and prominent clergy from the Roman Catholic, Ukranian, Byzantine, Catholic Greek Melkites and Traditional Anglican Catholic churches.

Among 21 Conservative and Liberal MPs was Rod Bruinooge, Chairman of the Pro-Life Parliamentary Caucus, and MP for Winnipeg South, who has proposed the private member’s bill, Bill C-510, which would “empower women to press charges again people who threaten them into an abortion,” he said. Another MP said this was the largest crowd he had ever seen on Parliament Hill.

See the coverage and a video of the March from Campaign Life Coalition, and from Lifesitenews of the March and Cardinal Ouelett’s remarks. The picture above of 12,500 pro-lifers on Parliament Hill and some of the 21 MPs also courtesy of Lifesitenews. 

Coming soon to this website: pictures and testimonies of the March from Halton students.