{"id":243478,"date":"2021-04-19T07:42:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T12:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=243478"},"modified":"2021-04-17T21:35:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T02:35:36","slug":"ontario-removes-pro-life-bus-ads-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ontario-removes-pro-life-bus-ads-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario city removes pro-life bus ads after complaint asserts preborn children aren’t ‘human’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Canadian pro-life group is heading to court to challenge the city of Guelph, Ontario, after it removed several pro-life ads from the backs of city buses.<\/p>\n

Guelph & Area Right to Life routinely runs an ad campaign on the back of city buses. However, in December 2019 and March 2020, three of its advertisements were pulled after a complaint from at least one local citizen. Now the Right to Life organization is fighting back, arguing that the city’s\u00a0“unreasonable” decision to remove the ads is a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.<\/p>\n

The ads in question were removed after a complaint from Fiona Douglas, a Guelph citizen who objected to their message.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s triggering for me as someone who has never had an abortion. It upsets me that people are able to make other people question what is right for them and their health care through the lens of human rights,\u201d she said<\/a> at the time.\u00a0\u201cI have seen these ads on buses since I was a little kid and it was very formative for me. I went to Catholic school, so that was the message I was getting at school as well. To see it on a bus would make me think that is the correct opinion because my city is telling me that and my school is telling me that.\u201d<\/p>\n