Pro-Life Free Speech was Suppressed -May 21, 2009
March for Life 2009
March for Life 2009
May 21, 2009
Re: Thousands hit Hill to protest against abortion, May 15.
I attended this year's pro-life rally on Parliament Hill for the first time. I saw thousands of people, but I sure didn't see much media presence.
In the Citizen's news story, the statement that there has been "snickering" at the Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus' "secretive" reputation in the mainstream media is really kind of silly.
Every year the pro-life caucus holds a press conference at the same time as the rally. A media advisory and a press release went out to the Ottawa Press Gallery before the conference.
Perhaps if some members of the media could have taken a few minutes out from the laborious duties of their round-the-clock coverage of Larry O'Brien's trial or Brian Mulroney's inquiry, they would have had a few minutes left over to cover the Pro-Life Caucus's press conference and rally.
They would have learned something, like who some of the Pro-Life Caucus members are, as many of them attended at the press conference.
Publishing the names of members of a caucus is not normal caucus protocol -- it's up to members to self-identify if they wish.
It's ironic that the subject for this year's press conference was "pro-life free speech suppressed in Canada."
Now that's an understatement.
With the press's little to no coverage of the pro-life rally or caucus press conference, this all seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Patricia Maloney,
Ottawa
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