A pro-choice rally on Confederation Hill yesterday heard that abortion is “a health issue and nothing more.”
Peg Norman, one of many who rallied for pro-choice and women’s rights, says we’ve come too far to go back.
A chant of “we won’t go backwards” is current echoing.
There was a pro-life rally scheduled for the same time, at Confederation Building but it appears they have left. One person tells me there were only about a dozen who showed up. @VOCMNEWS #NLpoli pic.twitter.com/czWJI8SdjL
— Ben Murphy (@BenMurphyVOCM) May 23, 2019
It was a counter-protest that dwarfed a small “March for Life” rally at the same time.
Norman was involved with the establishment of the first free-standing abortion clinic in Newfoundland when Henry Morgentaler arrived, and worked at the clinic for 10-years, five of those as manager.
Norman says they fought too long and hard for reproductive choice and rights to go back, hence the reason the rally was so important. She was happy to see so many young women and men coming together.
It’s a health issue because if women cannot control when and where they will have children, then they have no control and they won’t tolerate the systemic erosion of rights of women around the world.
Yeah… it’s a big group.
Now they’re moving down towards Prince Phillip Drive so passing traffic and more of the public can see and hear their pro-choice rally while gaining more support. @VOCMNEWS #NLpoli pic.twitter.com/pmbyCp1H9S
— Ben Murphy (@BenMurphyVOCM) May 23, 2019
Here’s what you will see when driving past Confederation Building on Prince Phillip Drive right now. @VOCMNEWS pic.twitter.com/839fxrArxk
— Ben Murphy (@BenMurphyVOCM) May 23, 2019
As for the pro-lifers, Norman made her feelings clear. She says if you don’t have the basic decency and respect to allow women to make a choice and think you have the right to determine where and when women will have children, there’s something wrong.
