CALGARY, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – The pro-abortion activist leader of a Canadian Black Lives Matter (BLM) city chapter has been charged with an anti-Catholic hate crime after allegedly preventing people from accessing a Catholic school and impeding people’s right to practice their faith.
As reported by the Calgary Herald on Tuesday, Calgary BLM president Adora Nwofor, 47, was given a hate crime mischief charge on June 2 related to a May 26 incident.
Nwofor was found to have been “willfully obstructing and interfering” with people’s use of St. Thomas Aquinas School, which is used “primarily used for religious worship and educational purposes,” allegedly for personal “reasons of bias, prejudice, or hate based on race or ethnic origin.”
Nwofor appeared in court and was released on a no-cash bail. She is banned from being within 100 meters of the school and from speaking to staff or students.
It is not clear what Nwofor, a known pro-abortion extremist, was doing or saying, but it could be related to her disdain for people with pro-life views. She has attended numerous pro-abortion rallies in the Calgary area.
Last May, Nwofor led a rally in Calgary to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s looming overturning of Roe v. Wade, at which she claimed pro-life Canadians were looking to have something similar happen in Canada despite this being impossible considering the country has no abortion laws.
Calgary’s Black Lives Matter website defines itself as having begun “humbly as a collection of activists and advocates who share a single vision: the empowerment of all members of the Black community and to continue the fight to end systemic discrimination in all of its forms.”
Catholic schools in Alberta are publicly funded and are older than the province itself. They are also constitutionally protected under law.
Although local Catholic bishops do not run the schools, they do have the power and responsibility to ensure that the school boards uphold the church’s unchangeable position on moral issues such as abortion and the main tenets of the faith.
Since the first century A.D., the Catholic Church has held an “unchangeable” teaching of doctrine on human life. For centuries, the church has recognized abortion as an intrinsic “moral evil,” complicity in which “constitutes a grave offense” that carries the “canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life.”
As for Canada’s abortion laws, there are none. The deadly, grisly practice is legal until birth.
Unlike in the United States, abortion in Canada exists in a legal vacuum since being decriminalized over 30 years ago. This means there is no “legal right” to abortion in Canada.
The 1988 Morgentaler decision saw the Supreme Court of Canada throw out the last remaining abortion law on the basis that it was unconstitutional. Since then, no federal law exists to regulate abortion, and thus the practice is permitted through all nine months of pregnancy.
According to the Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) website, abortion has killed over 4 million preborn babies in Canada since its legalization in 1969, which is roughly equivalent to the total population of the province of Alberta.