MANITOBA, December 10, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Manitoba Legislature rejected Thursday legislation that would have established “bubble zones” forbidding pro-life activists from protesting or sidewalk counseling near any abortion facility in the province.
Introduced in November by Opposition house leader Nahanni Fontaine, the so-called Safe Access to Abortion Services Act would have barred any “oral, written or graphic” expression of “disapproval concerning issues related to abortion services” within as many as 150 meters of an abortion center, including attempts to dissuade women from entering the building. It also would have banned filming, photographing, sketching, or even “repeatedly” observing anyone entering the building.
“I understand the need and the right of individuals to protest for something that they feel is important to them. I get that, I support that,” Fontaine claimed. “What I’m saying is that protests should not impact on Manitoba women’s and girls’ right[s]. It is a human right to access reproductive health.”
But the New Democratic Party (NDP) bill failed to win the support of the majority Progressive Conservative government, CBC News reports. Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister rejected the proposal on the grounds that it would encroach on people’s right to peacefully protest.
Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) hailed the
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