Students inspired to participate in 40 Days for Life...

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Everything that our school and community does is pro-life,” says Adam Parker, the principal of Wayside Academy, a private Catholic school in Peterborough, Ontario.

For years already the school has participated en masse in the annual March for Life in Ottawa, and school families regularly join a weekly pro-life vigil in front of the local hospital, where abortions are committed.
But this fall the school has added participation in the 40 Days for Life Campaign to its pro-life repertoire – and students, administrators and teachers alike are agreed that this year’s effort is only the beginning of what they hope will be a growing tradition.

Since the beginning of the fall campaign, students at Wayside Academy have been encouraged to fast and pray in union with the global 40 Days effort. Last Friday, October 15, ten students from the high school travelled several hours to Ottawa, where they joined the 40 Days vigil in front of Henry Morgentaler’s infamous Bank St. abortion facility.

High school teacher Peter Baklinski said that at first the kids were hesitant about signing up to go, “because there was talk about what you might see.”

“You might encounter some crazy people who might come and start shouting at you. Things could turn sour. You might see a woman going into the clinic and coming out obviously after having an abortion,” he said. “And a lot of the kids were afraid of seeing these things and there was a lack of enthusiasm to go on the trip because of what they might see.

“They knew what happens at an abortion clinic.”

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