I am the current chairperson of the Smithers Pro-life Board. On the morning of Mother’s Day we had a display of 73 crosses and a banner set up in a private field of a pro-life supporter.
The sign was a reminder to our community that many children in our valley also deserved a BIRTH day but they never came out of their dark womb alive.
The irony is not lost on us that the display itself could not survive one dark night; it was torn to pieces just as the child in the womb is destroyed. Those who die in the womb are truly without a voice; how sad when their voice is not allowed to be heard through a memorial display.
Our hope is that our community will begin to acknowledge that a dead child is a very poor and irreversible solution to a temporary problem.
Be a voice for the voiceless.
Betty Bandstra
Smithers
