BREAKING in Canada: Ontario to Ban Pro-lifers from Praying, Ministering and Protesting Outside Abortion Clinics

Lianne Laurence : Oct 5, 2017
LifeSiteNews.com

Campaign Life is urging pro-life advocates to lobby their MPPs to stand up for the freedom of speech of all Ontarians and to not cave to the abortion industry's demands.

(Toronto, Ontario)— [LifeSiteNews.com] The Ontario Liberal government introduced a bill today to outlaw pro-life witness outside abortion centers across the province. (Photo: Pro-life protest/Murloc/ Shutterstock/via LifeSiteNews.com)

"In an increasingly polarized society, it is critical that we protect a woman's right to choose," Attorney General Yasir Naqvi said in a press conference Wednesday before tabling the bill at Queen's Park.

"It is critical those protections be enshrined in law to ensure that they cannot be rolled back," he said.

The far-reaching proposed law would ban pro-life activity within 50 meters of the province's eight "dedicated" abortion centers, a distance that could be increased to 150 meters on request.

If an abortion facility moved, the bubble zone would move with it.

The proposed law would also establish a 150-meter bubble zone around the homes of all abortionists and abortion center staff, Naqvi said.

That zone would move with the abortion providers, to "protect" them wherever they are, he said.

Campaign Life Coalition, Canada's national political lobbying group and the country's largest pro-life organization, says the proposed law will hurt women.

The Liberals are "mounting an attack on women by seeking to prevent pro-lifers from offering mothers accurate information and alternatives to the violence of abortion, said Campaign Life president Jim Hughes.

"Bubble zone legislation isn't about protecting women and abortion staff workers from violence, because there is no evidence of such violence," he added.

Hughes said the proposed law is "about silencing peaceful pro-life witnessing and preventing women from having access to alternatives."

Mary Ellen Douglas, Campaign Life's Ontario president, echoed Hughes' concerns.

"This is another attempt by the Wynne government to do the abortion industry's dirty work, by preventing people who care deeply about women and their pre-born children from providing them help and support," she said.

Campaign Life is urging pro-life advocates to lobby their MPPs to stand up for the freedom of speech of all Ontarians and to not cave to the abortion industry's demands.

The bill would also allow other healthcare locations that provide abortion—including the abortion pill—to apply for a bubble zone...

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