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QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, February 23, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The opposition Parti Quebecois plans to introduce a private bill in the Quebec National Assembly to put free speech exclusion zones around the province's 47 abortion clinics, ostensibly to protect the staff and patrons from violence.

“Their arguments are very weak,” Georges Buscemi of Campagne Quebec-Vie told LifeSiteNews. “But they are tapping into an almost religious view of abortion clinics as places of worship.”

The Parti Quebecois's plan was leaked yesterday by La Presse columnist and abortion apologist Marie-Claude Malboeuf, who quoted the bill's sponsor, MNA Carole Poirier, saying, “One cannot help but be moved by the [patients' need for] accessibility to the clinics, safety issues and privacy concerns.”

“These are bad arguments,” said Buscemi. “The security of the women or staff won't be increased, because all this law would do is push away peaceful and law-abiding pro-life people, holding up signs saying, 'Pregnant, Need Help' and giving a phone number to call. People who seriously plan violence are not going to be deterred by this law.”

Columnist Malboeuf had to go back 20 years for Canadian examples of violence – to several attempts to murder British Columbia abortionist Garson Romalis – but the best she could come up with in Quebec was ” a person hidden under a cap” who appeared on security cameras at one Montreal clinic's front doors. Clinic staff in that instance feared for their lives.

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The issue of accessibility pertains to a Quebec law guaranteeing access to health care, said Buscemi. “But we argue that abortion is not health care, and the law does not mention it as such.”

In fact, Campagne Quebec-Vie is planning to make that argument at the as yet unscheduled trial on its suit to remove a “temporary” injunction keeping pro-life street counselors away from three downtown Montreal abortion clinics, put in place more than 20 years ago.

Campagne Quebec-Vie will introduce evidence from B.C. medical doctor and psychotherapist Philip Ney showing that not only is abortion not medical care, but it actually worsens the health of women.

It may have been Campagne Quebec-Vie's action last year that provoked the bill. When one abortion clinic moved its office, it moved out of the protected zone established by the old injunction. Pro-lifer street counselors immediately appeared outside the clinic's relocated front door offering the patrons counseling and pamphlets about abortion's many health risks.

In her article advocating for the private bill, Malboeuf laments the burden Campagne Quebec-Vie's persistence places upon abortion clinics. Once the pro-life activists are “rightly” thwarted by an injunction, they “can also fall back on a new target, as they have done in the past, since every clinic must establish its own inviolable area. Besides, once a clinic has moved, it must start its legal fight over to establish a perimeter in his new neighborhood.”

The Parti Quebecois bill is supported by the province's general practitioners and specialist alike, plus, according to Malboeuf, “13 other organizations.” Commented Buscemi: “It is very likely to pass with that kind of support,” especially with no opposition from anyone in the news media or elsewhere even from the perspective of free speech, he said.

Abortion advocates will present affidavits attempting to show that the presence of pro-life activists harms the mental health of women. “If we believe that,” said Buscemi, “it means there should be a law preventing us from saying or doing anything to upset people about anything.”

In fact, it is only abortion that some people believe deserves this kind of protection, Buscemi said, adding that the sentiment supporting abortion in Quebec approaches religious fervor. But the religion in this case, he cautioned, “is the worship of Satan, the god of licence. The abortion clinic is the place of worship, the temple.”