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OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) –– Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) has launched a “constitutional challenge” lawsuit against Canada’s Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) after the latter prevented the pro-life group from displaying pictures of aborted babies during its press conference in the lead-up to Canada’s National March for Life in early May on Parliament Hill.
CLC, with the help of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), announced on Thursday that a “constitutional challenge” has been “filed against Ottawa’s Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) for prohibiting the pro-life group from showing images of aborted fetuses during its news conference.”
In comments sent to LifeSiteNews, CLC’s Vice President Matthew Wojciechowski said that showing “abortion victim photography is a very effective way to expose the human rights injustice that is abortion, and we were stopped from doing so during our press conference.”
“We are hoping that our constitutional challenge will force a change in the guidelines the PPS enforces on the Hill,” he said.
Wojciechowski added that CLC was “denied the opportunity to visually express our message,” and as a result its “freedom of expression was limited on
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