{"id":267,"date":"2012-12-21T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2012-12-21T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:11:47","slug":"anti-abortion-protesters-hope-freemason-stephen-harper-will-re-open-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/21\/anti-abortion-protesters-hope-freemason-stephen-harper-will-re-open-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-abortion protesters hope Freemason Stephen Harper will re-open debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t<!-- Post Body Copy -->\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p>Toronto Sun<br \/>\nAnti-abortion protesters hope Harper will re-open debate<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, May 12, 2011<br \/>\nBy Kristy Kirkup, Parliamentary Bureau <\/p>\n<p><div class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 210px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/pics\/harper.commons.jpg\" title=\"Stephen Harper\" width=\"200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freemason PM Stephen Harper Making Masonic Recognition Signal in House of Commons, Ottawa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nOTTAWA &#8211; Thousands of protesters gathered on Parliament Hill Thursday and marched through Ottawa streets to demand the federal government outlaw abortion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We won&#8217;t rest until, once again, a culture of life has been restored to Canada,&#8221; said Jim Hughes, the National President of the Campaign Life Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-abortion organization has held an annual rally in Ottawa for 14 years. Church and school groups are among those who attend every year.<\/p>\n<p>During the election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his government would not support opening up the abortion issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government will not bring forward any such legislation and any such legislation that is brought forward will be defeated as long as I am prime minister,&#8221; Harper said.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-abortion activists are not holding their breath for Harper to change the law. Instead, they are hoping newly elected MPs will lead the charge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harper has never been pro-life and so we don&#8217;t expect much from him,&#8221; said Hughes. &#8220;We expect a lot from the backbench MPs though. We think the numbers have grown as a result of this election and we&#8217;re hoping they will bring private member&#8217;s bills that will begin limiting abortion and, eventually, if Mr. Harper is there as prime minister or not, the law will change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2011\/05\/12\/antiabortion-protesters-hope-harper-will-reopen-debate\"><strong>Article Continues<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Anti-abortion%20protesters%20hope%20Freemason%20Stephen%20Harper%20will%20re-open%20debate%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Sun Anti-abortion protesters hope Harper will re-open debate Thursday, May 12, 2011 By Kristy Kirkup, Parliamentary Bureau Freemason PM Stephen Harper Making Masonic Recognition Signal in House of Commons, Ottawa OTTAWA &#8211; Thousands of protesters gathered on Parliament Hill Thursday and marched through Ottawa streets to demand the federal<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Anti-abortion%20protesters%20hope%20Freemason%20Stephen%20Harper%20will%20re-open%20debate%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,23,34,24,7,150,49,25,26],"tags":[40,235],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-188","category-canada","category-christianity","category-democracy","category-freemasons","category-master-plans","category-religion","category-stephen-harper","category-tories","tag-abortion","tag-christians",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}