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TORONTO, November 3, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — LifeSiteNews won the right in court to publish video evidence of an abortion “doctor” forcibly dragging pro-life activist Mary Wagner from an abortion center.
Wagner was arrested December 12 at the Bloor West Village Women’s Clinic while attempting to persuade women to choose life for their unborn children, and charged with breach of probation and mischief.
The abortion facility’s video surveillance clip, introduced by the Crown as evidence in her trial, shows the abortion “doctor” pulling Wagner by the legs out of the facility before the police arrive.
LifeSiteNews was not able to publish the clip under an interim ban issued by Justice Ian Nordheimer, pending a full hearing on the Crown’s application for a publication ban.
Superior Court Justice Julie Thorburn released a decision Thursday that “the doctor’s” name could not be published.
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“All references to the doctor shall refer only to ‘the doctor’ without any further identification,” Thorburn said.
There is “a real and substantial risk of harm to the witness and a need to protect doctors who perform these legally protected services from that risk,”
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