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Ottawa’s annual March for Life draws thousands of people who hold passionate beliefs on what the rights to unborn life should be.
Anti-abortion protesters gathered on Parliament Hill on Thursday afternoon, to express their views on the rights of unborn children with signs, music, and testimonies.
Police keep the pro-choice protesters at bay on Albert Street. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
A few blocks away, a pro-choice rally drew hundreds to Confederation Park to protest the March for Life and defend the bodily rights of women as child-bearers.
D. D’Angelo, Anti-abortion
D. D’Angelo, who requested her first name be withheld due to personal matters, said the day she had an abortion changed her life forever.
“I was 15 years old when I got pregnant,” she said. “I was scared. I grew up in a very strict Italian family (who) forced me to have an abortion, so I felt like I didn’t have a choice, being so young.”
D’Angelo said that after the procedure she experienced severe symptoms of post abortive syndrome, which sent her spiralling into depression and suicidal thoughts. She had nightmares, intense flashbacks, poor appetite, and extreme guilt at what she had done, she said.
To escape her “emotional paralysis,” D’Angelo said, she went on a weekend retreat with Rachel’s Vineyard, a Christian organization that aims to help people heal emotionally after abortion, and learned to understand her trauma.
Now 47, D’Angelo is married with a family. She said that while she’s learned to deal with her traumatic symptoms, they still affect her ability to bond with her three children.
“My first child would have been 30 years old today,” she said.
D’Angelo said she recently began volunteering with the Campaign Life Coalition, and attended the March For Life because she’s angry with doctors. “They didn’t tell me what I was going to go through after the procedure. If they’re doing abortions, then they sure know the symptoms that (many) people feel.
“Today I need to raise awareness that (abortion) really isn’t an option,” she said. “It shouldn’t be a legal choice, and young people shouldn’t be manipulated and forced into it like I was. It scarred me for life.”
D’Angelo said she hopes to give testimonies on her experiences at future public events because a lot of people don’t realize the symptoms both men and women experience after abortion.
She wants to let the people against the March for Life know that her faith in God is very strong. “No one has the right to decide life. Only God does. We have no right to tamper with life.”
Tina F., Pro-Choice
Tina F., 23, who requested her last name be withheld for personal reasons, said she was shocked when she learned, three years ago, that her intrauterine device had failed.
“The contraception is 99.9 per cent effective,” she said. “So when I became pregnant, I was so angry that I got an abortion.”
Tina said she was upset at the lack of information she was given by her teachers, parents and doctors on abortion and the use of IUDs. “I didn’t know about other contraceptive methods, like the pill,” she said. “I didn’t know that there were different abortion procedures depending on how far along you are (in pregnancy). It was confusing to make an appointment (for abortion), and I had to book time off work.”
“I just want it to be way easier for anyone with a uterus to be able to access the health care and information that they deserve.”
She said it makes her “furious” when young women are shamed for having abortions.
“I was able to deal with (my abortion) OK,” she said, “But, for the folks who have a harder time dealing with it, folks who don’t have support from their family, folks who aren’t ready to handle it, I don’t think they deserve to be shamed for things they can’t control.”
Tina said she’s “sad” for those who oppose abortion who’ve had “even less sex education than me,” and said their views on human rights are a skewed reality.
“I would have had an abortion whether or not it was legal,” she said. “My health and safety is more important than (their) religion and feelings.”
Photos: March for Life and pro-choice protests hit the streets in Ottawa
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Anti-abortion protesters gathered on Parliament Hill on Thursday afternoon, to express their views on the rights of unborn children with signs, music, and testimonies.
Police keep the pro-choice protesters at bay on Albert Street. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
A few blocks away, a pro-choice rally drew hundreds to Confederation Park to protest the March for Life and defend the bodily rights of women as child-bearers.
D. D’Angelo, Anti-abortion
D. D’Angelo, who requested her first name be withheld due to personal matters, said the day she had an abortion changed her life forever.
“I was 15 years old when I got pregnant,” she said. “I was scared. I grew up in a very strict Italian family (who) forced me to have an abortion, so I felt like I didn’t have a choice, being so young.”
D’Angelo said that after the procedure she experienced severe symptoms of post abortive syndrome, which sent her spiralling into depression and suicidal thoughts. She had nightmares, intense flashbacks, poor appetite, and extreme guilt at what she had done, she said.
To escape her “emotional paralysis,” D’Angelo said, she went on a weekend retreat with Rachel’s Vineyard, a Christian organization that aims to help people heal emotionally after abortion, and learned to understand her trauma.
Now 47, D’Angelo is married with a family. She said that while she’s learned to deal with her traumatic symptoms, they still affect her ability to bond with her three children.
“My first child would have been 30 years old today,” she said.
D’Angelo said she recently began volunteering with the Campaign Life Coalition, and attended the March For Life because she’s angry with doctors. “They didn’t tell me what I was going to go through after the procedure. If they’re doing abortions, then they sure know the symptoms that (many) people feel.
“Today I need to raise awareness that (abortion) really isn’t an option,” she said. “It shouldn’t be a legal choice, and young people shouldn’t be manipulated and forced into it like I was. It scarred me for life.”
D’Angelo said she hopes to give testimonies on her experiences at future public events because a lot of people don’t realize the symptoms both men and women experience after abortion.
She wants to let the people against the March for Life know that her faith in God is very strong. “No one has the right to decide life. Only God does. We have no right to tamper with life.”
Tina F., Pro-Choice
Tina F., 23, who requested her last name be withheld for personal reasons, said she was shocked when she learned, three years ago, that her intrauterine device had failed.
“The contraception is 99.9 per cent effective,” she said. “So when I became pregnant, I was so angry that I got an abortion.”
Tina said she was upset at the lack of information she was given by her teachers, parents and doctors on abortion and the use of IUDs. “I didn’t know about other contraceptive methods, like the pill,” she said. “I didn’t know that there were different abortion procedures depending on how far along you are (in pregnancy). It was confusing to make an appointment (for abortion), and I had to book time off work.”
“I just want it to be way easier for anyone with a uterus to be able to access the health care and information that they deserve.”
She said it makes her “furious” when young women are shamed for having abortions.
“I was able to deal with (my abortion) OK,” she said, “But, for the folks who have a harder time dealing with it, folks who don’t have support from their family, folks who aren’t ready to handle it, I don’t think they deserve to be shamed for things they can’t control.”
Tina said she’s “sad” for those who oppose abortion who’ve had “even less sex education than me,” and said their views on human rights are a skewed reality.
“I would have had an abortion whether or not it was legal,” she said. “My health and safety is more important than (their) religion and feelings.”
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Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections (left, at Albert and Metcalfe), but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Carrying anti-abortion placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Traffic and buses downtown, like here on Elgin, were snarled for a while as the protest took a couple of hours. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Traffic and buses downtown were snarled for a while as the protest took a couple of hours. Here, buses line up at a virtual standstill on the Mackenzie King Bridge. Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections, but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections, but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections, but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
- Police keep the pro-choice protesters at bay on Albert Street. Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections, but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia Julie Oliver/Postmedia
- Police keep the pro-choice protesters at bay on Albert Street. Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections, but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections, but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections (left, at Albert and Metcalfe), but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Pro-Choice supporters briefly blocked the annual March for Life on Elgin St. in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. /OTTwp
Police videotape the bubble zone area around the Morgentaler Clinic on Bank. Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections, but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Pro-life protesters walk through the bubble zone area around the Morgentaler Clinic on Bank Street (at rear under black canopy) on their way to the rally on Parliament Hill. Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections, but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Pro-life protesters walk through the bubble zone area around the Morgentaler Clinic on Bank Street (at rear under black canopy) on their way to the rally on Parliament Hill. Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections, but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Police keep the pro-choice protesters at bay. Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections, but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Police keep the pro-choice protesters at bay. Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections, but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
A young woman screams at the people in the pro-life rally as they passed by. Carrying pro-life placards, singing songs and chants, thousands of people paraded through downtown Ottawa Thursday (May 10, 2018) for the March for Life rally. They were met by a few hundred vocal pro-choice protesters at some intersections, but the two groups were kept separated by a strong police presence. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Pro-Choice supporters demonstrate at Slater and Elgin St. during the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. The pro-choice supporters had previously blocked the March for Life on Elgin St., forcing it to turn back towards Parliament Hill. /OTTwp
Pro-Choice supporters demonstrate at Slater and Elgin St. during the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. The pro-choice supporters had previously blocked the March for Life on Elgin St., forcing it to turn back towards Parliament Hill. /OTTwp
A man, presumably a pro-life supporter, points to an oncoming Pro-Choice march before they confronted and blocked the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. /OTTwp
Pro-Choice supporters the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. /OTTwp
A Pro-Life supporter kneels on Elgin St as Pro-Choice supporters blocked the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. /OTTwp
Pro-Choice supporters demonstrate at Slater and Elgin St. during the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. The pro-choice supporters had previously blocked the March for Life on Elgin St., forcing it to turn back towards Parliament Hill. /OTTwp
A Pro-Life supporter looks on as Pro-Choice supporters blocked the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. /OTTwp
Ottawa Police are reflected in the sunglasses of a Pro-Choice supporter as a group blocked the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. /OTTwp
Ottawa Police are reflected in the sunglasses of a Pro-Choice supporter as a group blocked the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. /OTTwp
Pro-Life supporters show their supporter after Pro-Choice protestors blocked the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. /OTTwp
A pro-life supporter takes pictures after pro-choice supporters blocked the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. /OTTwp
Pro-Choice supporters march down Slater St. during the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. The pro-choice supporters had previously blocked the March for Life on Elgin St., forcing it to turn back towards Parliament Hill. /OTTwp
The annual pro-life demonstration, March for Life, began on Parliament hill but hit a snag when a counter demonstration blocked their way on Elgin street near the War Memorial. After approximately 30 minutes the standstill came to an end when March For Life demonstrators made their way back down Elgin street and both crowds dissipated quickly. Raven McCoy/Post Media Raven McCoy/Post Media
A Pro-Choice supporter shouts into a megaphone in Confederation Park before joining a group that confronted and briefly blocked the annual March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. /OTTwp
Pro-Choice supporters leave Confederation Park before confronting and briefly blocking the annual pro-life March for Life in Ottawa Thursday, May 10, 2018. /OTTwp
The annual pro-life demonstration, March for Life, began on Parliament hill but hit a snag when a counter demonstration blocked their way on Elgin street near the War Memorial. After approximately 30 minutes the standstill came to an end when March For Life demonstrators made their way back down Elgin street and both crowds dissipated quickly. Raven McCoy/Post Media
The annual pro-life demonstration, March for Life, began on Parliament hill but hit a snag when a counter demonstration blocked their way on Elgin street near the War Memorial. After approximately 30 minutes the standstill came to an end when March For Life demonstrators made their way back down Elgin street and both crowds dissipated quickly. Raven McCoy/Post Media
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