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What is
Campaign Life Coalition Alberta?
Campaign
Life Coalition Alberta (CLC Alberta) is the provincial branch of
Campaign Life Coalition based in Toronto. We begin with the
premise that all human life is precious and sacred. At all levels
of government, however, there are laws and practices that are contrary
to this principle. CLC Alberta aims to promote life-affirming
legislation at these various government levels though focusing on
Alberta in particular. We support legislation and proposed
legislation that defends the sanctity of life and oppose threats to
life such as abortion, euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide.
CLCA
focuses on two main groups whose right to life are currently
threatened: the unborn and the sick / elderly.
Currently
in Canada, an unborn human being is not legally a person and so does
not have any rights at all, including the right to life. This
leaves the unborn vulnerable to several threats: primarily abortion but
also certain types of medical and scientific research and
procedures. CLC Alberta's primary goal is to help bring about
legislation that include the unborn as persons under the law thus
guarantying their right to life. Our secondary goals are to
reduce the number of abortions by reducing or eliminating funding for
abortions, requiring that anyone seeking an abortion is fully informed
when making their decision and encouraging alternatives to abortion
such as adoption.
The primary
threats to the lives of the sick and elderly are euthanasia and
doctor-assisted suicide. Though they are already guaranteed the
right to life, certain laws and proposed laws aim to circumvent this
right. We believe that a sick and/or elderly person has as much
right to a happy life as a young and healthy person. CLCA
therefore promotes legislation that funds such things as palliative
care.
Activities of CLC Alberta
- We publish a monthly
newsletter of the activities more specifically for Alberta, signed by
our president.
- We hold a monthly Board
meeting.
- We keep an updated
database of all our supporters.
- We represent the Alberta
Pro-Life movement at national conferences involving life issues.
- We cooperate with
Edmonton Pro-Life for the annual Life Chain event.
- We are
planning Alberta's contribution to March for Life, which brings
together Canadians from all regions of the country to call on
Parliamentarians to protect human life from conception to natural death.
- We contact electoral
candidates in order to determine their position on life issues.
- We support all Pro-Life
action in Alberta.
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