One of our members, Joshua James Harlan Fry, a 19 year old from New Brunswick, wrote this article for the 40th anniversary of abortion being legalized in Canada. On May 14th, 1969, abortion was legalized in Canada under certain conditions. In 1988, abortion was decriminalized completely, striking its reference out of the Criminal Code, leaving Canada with no laws or restrictions on abortion. We hope to see many of you on Parliament Hill on Thursday for the National March For Life. The theme this year is "Exodus 2009: A Future Without Abortion."

Just something I have been asking myself over and over again... and it's really gotten to me. People, and sadly the laws, say that a child in the womb is not a person until it's either born, or X days have passed.
This, too me, makes no sense. It brings back haunting images from times and wars past when people attacked others because they didn't look the same, or because they were different.

Take a look at all the genocides going on in the world today. Out of hate, out of dislike for differences. Take a look at slavery in the past of African Americans. They looked different, so they were less then human, was a defense many people used. And yes this extends into World War II, into Nazi Germany. The people whom were being attacked and killed were considered less then human. They were considered weak and useless. They were not considered human by those laws.

Now let me ask you something and please bear with me until the end of this little rant, please. We, as humans, all have a few things in common. For one thing we are all different. No two humans are the very, exact, same. Even identical twins are different in some way. We have different sizes, different hair, eyes, noses, ears and skin tone. Each and every single one of our finger prints are, in fact, unique.

Now let me ask you something else. How many chromosomes do you have?
Forty-Six (46).
Now let me ask you this next question. How many chromosomes does a child in the womb have? Forty-Six (46).

So now let me ask you what makes us so different from a child in the womb then? They have the same amount of chromosomes as every other human being on earth. They have the same building blocks that we have had and we still do have. We are no different, at the very base of it, then the child in that womb.

Take a look at a pine tree seed. It's smaller then the fully grown tree, it's still a tree. It's got the material it needs to be a tree. It's never going to be anything else but a tree. It's a tree. You can look at a child in the womb the exact same way. It may not look like a fully grown human, but it's still a human.

I find it sick that people would think of children in the womb as not human at all. How does this work out, then? Did we suddenly change when we were born? Did we morph into being a human? We, from the very beginning of conception, are human. We don't suddenly change to being human once we are out of the womb or at a certain date. We are human.
You cannot say that while I was in my mothers womb that I was not a
human, because I am a human now. You cannot say I am less then human when I still have the same amount of chromosomes as I did when I was in my mothers womb.

You were never anything else but a human being. You were a human being inside the womb, you were a human being when you were born, when you first learned how to ride a bike, when you first looked at the stars, when you took your first breath. You were human. You were a part of this species here on earth when you where conceived, and you are still a human being now. What gives you the right to tell someone who will be a
human being, who will look up at the stars, someone who has the same amount of chromosomes as you, a born human being, that they are not a human? You were not some other being while you were in the womb, you were not just a blob of cells, you were not something less then human.

You were, and are, a human being. The only difference is that you made it out alive.

God Bless You Whoever You Are,

Joshua J.H. Fry