Anti-abortion rally held in front of P.E.I. legislature

	Dave Stewart

	One of the women at a Charlottetown pro-life rally Thursday says she regrets her decision to have an abortion 40 years ago. Angelina Steenstra, the national co-ordinator for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, was one of close to 100 people at a rally in front of the P.E.I. legislature where the fall sitting was about to get underway. “I was very young, 15 years old. My first pregnancy was the result of a rape and I was offered abortion as a solution,’’ Steenstra told The Guardian in an interview. “I had no idea saying yes would leave the kind of scars that it’s had . . . and that was over 40 years ago.’’ Steenstra, who is from Oshawa, Ont., came to Charlottetown for the rally to lend her voice. “The option is not after the child is conceived. The option is before the child is conceived. I was your classic example of why abortion was legalized in Canada, because of rape and incest. Even though that child was conceived in rape, that child was still half mine.’’ Continue reading