Progressive Conservative Party leader Patrick Brown
TORONTO, October 10, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — After Ontario Liberals rejected a Conservative motion last week to fast-track a sweeping law criminalizing pro-life activities outside abortion centers, critics and media accused them of playing politics with abortion eight months before a provincial election.
But Campaign Life Coalition senior political strategist Jack Fonseca warns MPPs not to lose sight of the fact that Bill 163 violates the Charter and should be opposed regardless of one’s view on abortion.
“This is fundamentally a free speech issue,” he told LifeSiteNews.
“As such, the proposed legislation strikes at the heart of our democracy, our western civilization. If we don’t have free speech, we are not a free people. Period.”
Introduced by Attorney General Yasir Naqvi on October 4, Bill 163, or the Protecting a Woman’s Right to Access Abortion Services Act, outlaws all pro-life activity, including sidewalk counselling, within 50 meters of Ontario’s eight abortion centres — a distance that can be increased to 150 meters on request.
It also automatically establishes 150-meter zones around the homes of abortionists and abortion center staff, which will move with abortion providers to protect them wherever they are,
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