Thu Jun 8, 2023 – 6:11 pm EDT
CALGARY, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) — A top Canadian pro-life group is planning legal action against the city of Calgary for restricting the distribution of pro-life flyers with images of aborted babies.
The Canadian Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) plans to legally challenge the recent Calgary bylaw that greatly restricts the distribution of pro-life materials, particularly abortion victim photography.
“CCBR is currently evaluating our legal recourse as to how we will fight and demonstrate that this bylaw is significant violation of our Charter protected rights to freedom of expression,” Cameron Cote, CCBR western outreach director, told LifeSiteNews.
According to Cote, the bylaw not only censors abortion victim photography but bans “ultrasound images of naturally developing pre-born children, hiding from Calgarians both the beautiful reality of pre-born life.”
“Without effective pro-life literature and resources, mothers and fathers will not be equipped with the information they need to make informed decisions about abortion, and tragically it will be their children who will pay the ultimate price,” he argued.
Passed in May, the bylaw states that flyers with graphic images of aborted babies, or “fetuses” as it says, “must be concealed in an
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