Eight years ago, the We Need a Law campaign challenged the pro-life community to come together to knit 1,000 pairs of baby booties. Knitters would send a pair to their Member of Parliament with a note, reminding the MP of the 100,000 lives lost to abortion every year in the country.
They had no idea of just how successful the challenge would be! Knitting needles started clacking, resulting in over 7,000 pairs made and then displayed on Parliament Hill. These were given to MPs and most were then donated to pregnancy care centres.
Now they are doing it again, but with a twist. We Need a Law has a new challenge for knitters and crocheters called Hats of Hope. “Use your creative talent for knitting or crocheting to remind your MP of the humanity of pre-born children,” they ask on a special web page that explains the campaign. The page includes a free baby hat crochet pattern and a printable note that can be sent with the hat to the knitter’s MP, informing them that the hat was made “in honour of a child lost to abortion in Canada” and asking them to donate it to a local hospital or pregnancy care center.
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