OTTAWA, February 2, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — About 40 pro-life advocates carrying signs that read “Aid to women ends here”; “Free speech ends here” and “Abortion is killing” protested against Bill 163 in Ottawa on Thursday, the day the Ontario Liberal bill came into effect.
Known as the “bubble zone” law, Bill 163 bans all pro-life witness, including showing disapproval of abortion, within 50 meters of the province’s eight abortion centers, and within 150 meters of the homes of abortion providers.
Individuals convicted of a first offence under Bill 163 can be fined up to $5,000 and/or jailed up to six months. These punishments double for a second and subsequent convictions.
While Twitter lit up with laudatory messages to Attorney General Yasir Naqvi for constraining “crazy anti-abortion protestors,” Campaign Life Coalition urged pro-life advocates not to abandon mothers and children threatened by abortion in the face of this “totalitarian” bill.
“We must remember that although this law infringes upon our rights and freedoms, the real victims here continue to be the pre-born children, their moms, and families,” Campaign Life said in a January 31 advisory on the bill. “Women need to hear our message of truth and
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