Anti-abortion billboards gone from West Kelowna commute

Kathy Michaels Dec 5, 2025

Larger than life ads protesting abortions are no longer part of a commute through West Kelowna.

This shift is the result of an effort by a UBC Okanagan student, supported legally by the BC Humanist Association, that started last spring.

The BC Humanist Association said in a story posted to their website this week that their members heard last spring about UBC Okanagan student Sophie Harm’s thwarted efforts to launch a counter message along Highway 97 and pitched in their help.

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[ARCC News] Anti-abortion billboards in West Kelowna, B.C., coming down

Anti-abortion billboards in West Kelowna, B.C., coming down

December 9, 2025 Video – 2:24 minutes

Billboards with anti-abortion messages may soon be coming down in the Kelowna area. For many years, a local billboard company has allowed the signs along Highway 97 through West Kelowna. As Brady Strachan reports, pressure from a local pro-choice advocate has led to a policy change.

Continued: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7009750

  • there shouldn't be ANY billboards, it's abomination

    I remember driving that road before the billboards. They are such a gross distraction and it takes away from the views

    Complain to the band it’s their land.

  • I am very much in Quebec’s camp when it comes to pushing religious ideology: keep it firmly between your ears.

    Especially when it comes to the supremely hypocritical anti-abortion camp, among whom almost no-one bothers to adopt. If they would at least adopt - say, a good half-dozen kids if not more - I would give them a lot more leeway. But nooooo… flaming hypocrites, the lot of them. Pro-birthers they are.

    “Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to 9 months. After that, they don’t wanna know about you. They don’t wanna hear from you. No nothing! No neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re pre-born, you’re fine, if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.”

    - George Carlin

    "I do not believe that just because you are opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, a child educated, a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."

    - Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister