21 March 2002

The organisation, Christians for Truth, is to hold a procession march with a large float carrying different animals (people with animal costumes) on 21 March. The animals, including a bear, hippo, giraffe, owl, frog, chicken, lion and penguin, will be carrying posters declaring: "Endangered species: Human Babies"; "Save the Baby Human"; "Sindisani usana lomntu".

The procession and float will begin outside Addington hospital in Durban at 1:30 on Thursday afternoon.

The aim of the action is to draw attention to the fact that Human Rights Day is about rights for human beings. It is well and good giving protection to endangered animal species but utterely foolish and inhuman to remove rights from humans. Abortion is the most stark example of the removal of the most basic of human rights - the right to life.

In South Africa, there have been over 205 000 human beings who were not allowed to draw their first breath, since the legalisation of abortion on demand 5 years ago. Recently, it has become public knowledge that some babies are killed after drawing their first breath and are thrown into buckets and other places to die.

Christians for Truth, an association of 106 083 members, stands with all people of good will in South Africa in rejecting the anti-human practise of abortion.

CFT also condemns immoral campaigns such as Love Life which is simply part of the problem, because its advertising campaign (which costs millions of Rands) is condoning a dangerous sexual lifestyle, which results in promiscuity and more abortions. Instead, CFT promotes effective abstinence campaigns such as True Love Waits.