I read the recent anti-abortion event article with amusement [“City responds to anti-abortion event at Willingdon Beach,” June 22].
I think the pro-life number of abortions in Canada per year come under the heading of facts made up on the spot.
I did a little research.
According to Statistics Canada's website, there were 11,800,400 females in the age range of 15 to 64. In order for there to be 100,000 abortions in Canada as stated, one in 120 of these females had to have had an abortion in the census year 2016.
Regardless of their “facts,” I'd like to see them plant 10,000 tiny flags. Let’s give them 24 hours and have them pull the flags up and taken away to be replanted with an increase of 10 per cent next year.
I did a little math and if they plant one flag every second without stopping, it will only take 2.77 hours. I don't know how big the tiny flags are, so I can't project how much space they will take up.
Henry Hill
Bowness Avenue
