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April 29, 2015

Civil liberties association says withholding abortion stats an affront to democracy

We Need A Law campaign director Mike Schouten and media relations assistant Niki Pennings on the lawn of Queen’s Park, where the campaign arranged a display of 100,000 pink and blue flags to represent abortions performed in Canada each year.

TORONTO - Ontario is violating basic principles of democracy and Canada’s international treaty obligations by keeping abortion statistics secret, according to the Ontario Civil Liberties Association.

Published in Canada
April 23, 2015

Constitutional challenge seeks truth of abortion numbers

We Need A Law campaign director Mike Schouten and media relations assistant Niki Pennings on the front lawn of Queen’s Park, where the campaign had arranged a display of 100,000 pink and blue flags to represent 100,000 abortions performed in Canada each year. The We Need A Law parent organization, ARPA Canada, is going to court to challenge an Ontario law that limits access to abortion information.

TORONTO - With 100,000 pink and blue flags littered across the front lawn of Queen’s Park representing Canada’s annual abortion toll, a blogger and a Protestant civil rights organization announced a constitutional challenge to Ontario freedom of information laws that keep all abortion statistics secret.

Published in Canada