Carleton pro-lifers arrested
Students charged with trespassing after erecting anti-abortion display
Five students were arrested and charged with trespassing after erecting an anti-abortion display at Carleton University’s main quadgrangle. Four of the students are members of pro-life group, Carleton Lifeline, while the fifth student was from Queen’s University.
The university had denied the group permission to put up the display in the quadgrangle when it applied two months ago, citing the size and offensiveness of the photos. Instead, the students were offered a table in university centre, an offer that apparently was not suitable for the group’s goals. It is about telling “the truth about abortion,” a Carleton Lifeline member said in the Post.
Photo of Ottawa police arresting students, courtesy of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform
The university denied the anti-abortion group’s application to demonstrate in the quadrangle but generously offered them space in the university centre for their display. The anti-abortion group was trespassing plain and simple. They deserved to be arrested.
If the protesters couldn’t follow the rules about where they were allowed to have their demonstration, then they deserved to be arrested. Plain and simple. Consequences for every action. It doesn’t matter whether they were protesting about abortion, genocide, pro-life, pro-choice or the price of a coffee. They were given a space by the university and they chose not to take it. Their mistake.
It clearly stated in the rights and responsibilities handbook that the girl read in the video, that as students they had the right to protest on the campus regardless of their content, regardless of whether they were criticizing society or the university itself.
I didn’t hear anything in the rights and responsibilities that said “you may only protest where you are given permission to do so.” It said on the campus, which is where they were doing it. If the university wanted to be able to approve every protest and assign it a location, they should have specified in the rights and responsibility handbook.
Everyone knows why these people were arrested because of what they were saying, it goes against the status quo, plain and simple.
What if someone had signs up of something like advocating for gay marriage, and people said they were ‘offended by it’, do you think they would have been forced to take their signs down? Definitely not, and why? because the university would say that people have the right to express their views peacefully. Same should go for these people.
Why are these pictures so offensive to people? Why are they so bad that we can’t bare to look at? The fact of the situation is that abortion is totally legal for all nine months of pregnancy in Canada. Why do we condone something that we don’t want to talk about, debate about, or look at?
I think that if we can believe in abortion enough to make it legalized in this country, we should be able to look at the effects of it, and not be so god damn ignorant about them. This is what it is, and whether or not people may find it ‘offensive’ is their own problem. Showing these pictures is not violating other peoples rights, or physically harming other people. So those that don’t want to look at it, grow up and suck it up.
I look at stuff every day that I don’t want to see, and I deal with it because thats the way the world is and its not going to change to accommodate me.
I support people being able to support the cause they believe in, and express it, regardless of whether or not I believe in it or want to look at it.
These students are heroes. When the history of the pro-life movement is written, these men and women will be hailed as proclaimers of truth when the establishment was afraid to face the truth. If they had posted photos of dogs, horses or cats being tortured and killed like the babies, the pc police would help hang the signs.
Shame on the university. What cowardice!
Ok then, let’s open the doors and let people hold signs with pictures of rape. Just because it’s offensive to you doesn’t mean it’s not the TRUTH. It needs to be stopped, just like these giant glossy photos of genocide, with rotting and dismembered bodies piled on top of each other.
Oh, an elementary group is having a field trip to the school? Good! Children need to know about the atrocities of genocide and rape, and I’m going to make sure they know about it by forcing horrific images into their minds!
Not sure if these police or campus “whoevers” have ever watched a mother cry because they lost their daughter after she had an abortion go wrong. Maybe they should…I don’t think they would have arrested them. Also, as a mother who couldn’t have kids…I’ll take them, stop aborting them. Morals? Do we live in Canada a free country? Home of the free? Dream on!