ABORTION INDUSTRY PRETENDS TO “FEAR” TORONTO PILGRIMS

TORONTO, July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Spokesmen for the abortion industry are pretending they “fear” that World Youth Day pilgrims “will block access to abortion clinics.” Carolyn Egan, with the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics, says the term “direct action,” used by some pro-lifers planning activities during the event, “means intimidation, harassment and attempts to prevent women from gaining access to abortion clinics. We’re very afraid,” Egan claimed, “of what might happen.”  Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim newspaper, says: “There are, to my knowledge, pro-life individuals hoping to have legal, peaceful demonstrations outside the bubble zones of abortuaries in Toronto. What these pro-abortion groups oppose is anyone ever daring to speak out against abortion. In fact, they are trying to intimidate pilgrims into not exercising their freedom of expression.”  Toronto Right to Life spokeswoman Natalie Hudson said her group has no plans to “obstruct” abortion clinics, in the vicinity of which Ontario’s bubble zones suppress the exercise of freedom of speech anyway by making it illegal to protest outside the door, noting: “We’re not going to break any laws or anything.” Hilary White, a spokeswoman for Campaign Life Coalition, said, “Our protests usually consist of standing on the other side of the street from a clinic and praying.”  To read Canadian Press coverage see: https://www.recorder.ca/cp/national/020710/n071057A.html