Please help the Morgentaler Clinic in Ottawa counter planned anti-choice protest.

The Ottawa Morgentaler Clinic has asked for letter-writing assistance in countering the anti-choice 40 Days for Life vigil, as well as the Mother's Day protest in front of their clinic.
The City of Ottawa has given the anti's a permit to protest there. Please send a copy of your letter to Police Services, because they have often failed to respond quickly and adequately to calls from the Clinic about protester harassment of patients (although apparently they have recently improved).

The problem is not that protesters want to protest, it's the location. One's freedom of speech should not infringe on another person's right to access a legal and required medical service. If they want to protest, they can do that anywhere, but they should not be allowed to interfere with women accessing services, especially at such a vulnerable time when women need privacy. Laws and court injunctions in other jurisdictions have recognized this. Further, patients' stress and fear caused by protesters increase the risk of surgical complications, and picketers outside clinics increase the risk of violence or vandalism against clinics.

Please ask the City to rescind the permits because clinic protests violate women's rights and endanger their health, and foster violence against the clinic and its staff.
Also if you can, please write Letters to the Editor: http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/letters.html.

Get the word out that the CITY is failing women and is more afraid of pissing off anti-choicers than it is about protecting the safety of women.

Here are the addresses:

Patricia B, Permit Services
City of Ottawa City Operations, Public Works
Traffic and Parking Operations Branch
100 Constellation Cres, 5th Floor WestNepean, ON
K2G 6J8
Tel 1-613-580-2424, ext 28164
Fax: 1-613-560-1333

AND

Superintendant K. Roberts
Ottawa Police Service
Central Patrol Division
P.O Box 9634, Station "T"
Ottawa, ON
K1G 6H5
Fax: 1-613-760-8098

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If you have questions or need more information, please contact Julie Lalonde at jlalond7@connect.carleton.co


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