In Canada, your right to march through the streets, shaking your fist or offering Nazi salutes to the police will be upheld as a fundamental expression of free speech. You can agitate to join a Pride parade carrying a banner accusing Israel of being an apartheid state, and sympathetic “progressives” will argue on your behalf while municipal leaders look the other way. But stand on a public sidewalk near an abortion clinic, holding a poster with the image of a baby on it, and the forces of justice come down on you with both feet.
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Crown attorney Andrew Cappell told Judge William Wolski Thursday that Ms. Gibbons’ pamphlets were “disturbing” to clients of the clinic. It was also a “nuisance” and interfered with the clients’ right to get their abortion.
“By doing this in front of the clinic, it is intimidating people into not having these abortions performed … intimidating them into not executing a legal right that they have,” Mr. Cappell said.
In the famous words of Joyce Arthur, Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada: "There is no, per se, right to abortion."
Handing out a pamphlet is not "intimidation". Asking people to reconsider is not "intimidation".
Intimidation is the act of threatening some negative consequence for performing a given gesture.
There is no negative consequence for performing an abortion.
Just because something makes you feel bad doesn't give you the right to ban it.
