Posted on 09/27/2006 5:28:17 PM PDT by ConservativeJen
FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, Sept. 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A pro-life woman was arrested Tuesday for holding an image of an aborted child outside an abortion facility in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Suzie Ryan, mother of seven, was silently holding the image outside the Morgentaler centre as abortions were being performed inside. Mrs. Ryan was charged with violating s.163 of the Criminal Code. S.163 is about the display of obscene material. She was released after being held in a jail cell for several hours. She must face the charges in court in November.
Prior to her arrest Mrs. Ryan was not warned in any way that she was committing an illegal act. Six to eight police officers arrived and forcibly put her in a paddy wagon, while confiscating her sign and umbrella.
Police Staff Sergeant Kelly later explained to Mrs. Ryan's husband, Campaign Life Coalition New Brunswick (CLCNB) president Peter Ryan, that the police were acting following instructions from the Crown Prosecutor office and some 35 complaints about the display of abortion images. Mr. Ryan believes the abortuary staff must have put in one or more complaints this morning.
CLCNB is not aware of any other case in Canada where a pro-life citizen was arrested without prior warning for simply displaying an abortion image in a public place. Such images have been repeatedly displayed by such groups as Show the Truth which has won precedent-setting cases in which it also was charged for showing graphic abortion pictures. That group visited Fredericton twice this past summer. At the time Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside expressed displeasure with the group's tactics, but said there was nothing the city could legally do to prevent such displays.
The Morgentaler abortion facility has no legal restrictions against protest in the surrounding public area. Pro-life supporters regularly are present on Tuesday mornings when abortions usually take place.
Mrs. Ryan says she is quite shaken by the incident.
Peter Ryan says it is incredible when someone can be accused of a crime for peacefully protesting the murder of innocent children. "Here's the analogy," he said. "The Nazi death camps are exterminating Jews. Outside someone protests with an image of the Holocaust. The camp staff complains to police. The person is arrested as a criminal. The slaughter goes on. That's where we now are in this country."
It's not obscene to slaughter the babies, of course, it's only obscene to show the result....
I think she should have been warned. I also hope that this wasn't visible to small children. While I believe she has the right to free speech there is speech that should not be visible or done around small children.
So showing a picture of an aborted fetus is obscene and subject to criminal code. But the act itself is legal and exempt.
Bizarro World!
"Judge Allows Anti-Gay Military Funeral Protests"
2 posts down... tells ya all
A Federal Judge has allowed
A Topeka, Kansas, group calling itself the Westboro Baptist Church has been traveling to military funerals around the country, telling mourners that "God hates fags" and that "God has irreversibly cursed America" for its tolerance of homosexuality.
The world is upside down.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:20
Planned Parenthood sells shirts that delcare "I'm proud of my abortion" and "I had an abortion." But they flip out when faced with their abortion.
"Mrs. Ryan was charged with violating s.163 of the Criminal Code. S.163 is about the display of obscene material. She was released after being held in a jail cell for several hours. She must face the charges in court in November."
An abortion is "obscene" so WHY is THAT legal?
It's MURDER!
"It's not obscene to slaughter the babies, of course, it's only obscene to show the result...."
You said it better than I.
The pictures they put on cigarette packages are rather nasty. Any smokers arrested for carrying those around?
You know it is a crazy times we are living in when someone gets arrested for an image, meanwhile the abortion clinic continues to murder innocent babies.
Maybe it's the CCLU...after all, it's in Canaduh.
If the image is obscene, then how much more evil and obscene are the actual bloody deeds going on inside? Oh how evil hates the light.
How many small children do you expect to see at an abortion clinic???
Wouldn't it have been much more honest and appropriate to use Moderatejen?
Pray tell (oops are we allowed to use that word?) WHY????
Are we to worry about the sensitivities of the chillllens
Tooo freakin bad.
After all, they are only pictures of what is in reality happening behind the walls, right?
If that "procedure" is not so abhorrent, then why should not ALL see it in living color????
And as far as this woman being warned, warned of what?
From the story, apparently her actions were NOT criminal, thus why should she have been warned, much less arrested.?
All PC, liberal, leftists, SOP.
They are sooooo afraid their abortion mills might lose a "customer" they have been able to muster huge amounts of clout and power which they use ruthlessly against anyone who objects to babies being intentionally murdered in a mother's womb and unfortunately, many local Nazi Pigs (sorry to all good LEA, but that's what these goons who enforce these laws and 5 or 6 swoop down on a poor Innocent, defenseless, lone woman like a SWAT team going after a drug kingpin)are used to carry out these unconscionable deeds.
The only consolation we Conservatives can take, is that it is now documented that at this rate, "we" will outnumber Libs in the very near future, because so many are killing their unborn and won't have any (or many) offspring to raise in their stead and imprint their lib philosophy and ideas on their own ankle biters.
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