Anti-abortion protest in PEI as legislative session begins
A group of about 100 Campaign Life Coalition Youth and other pro-life supporters gathered outside the PEI provincial legislature in Charlottetown, calling on the government to stop providing Islanders with access to abortions off-island in Moncton, NB.
The policy, announced in June of this year, would permit pregnant mothers on the Island to abort their babies at a hospital in Moncton starting July 1, and would even allow mothers to book the abortions themselves without needing a doctor's referral.
"There's a very small number of people who actually want this change, so we're here on the first day the legistature resumes to say that isn't the case, Islanders don't want this," said Alissa Golob of Campaign Life Coalition. The CLC Youth-led group also wants chemical and medical abortions banned outright on the Island.
At the same event, CLC’s Golob presented a petition to MLA
James Aylward, bearing 3,000 signatures of Islanders who oppose abortion. Aylward accepted the petition and said he'll table it in the legislature.
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