No-go Zones Around Abortion Clinics Are Unconstitutional
Free societies don’t protect people from discomfort over their choices
Peggy Holland stands outside a friend’s home handing out pamphlets to passersby near the “bubble zone” of an abortion clinic in Vancouver in this file photo. Alberta Health Minister Sarah Hoffman recently claimed that banning peaceful anti-abortion protests near abortion clinics is not about freedom of expression. CP PHOTO/Chuck Stoody
Alberta Health Minister Sarah Hoffman recently claimed that banning peaceful anti-abortion protests near abortion clinics is not about freedom of expression. Yet she has also expressed confidence that her new law would withstand a constitutional challenge.
By speaking of a constitutional challenge, it seems that she knows that this new law tramples on free expression as protected by Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
