Petition

Hamilton City Council: Don’t censor images of pre-born humans!

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To: Hamilton City Council

WHEREAS city staff have been directed to produce a report by Q2 2024 on the feasibility of creating a by-law that would require flyers containing fetal images be concealed in sealed envelopes with a warning and sender information when delivered to Hamilton residences;

WHEREAS staff have also been asked “to explore the feasibility of regulating or prohibiting graphic imagery that is carried, held or displayed in public spaces”;

WHEREAS Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects the fundamental freedom of expression, and such freedom is necessary for the function of any democracy;

WHEREAS the Association for Reformed Political Action recently initiated litigation to challenge the constitutionality of the “By-law to regulate the Delivery of Graphic Images in the City of St. Catharines” (By-law No. 2023-150);

WHEREAS “images showing, or claiming to show, a fetus or any part of a fetus” encompass not only abortion victim photography but also ultrasound photos and scientific images of fetal development;

WHEREAS the purpose of arbitrarily restricting the dissemination of fetal imagery is evidently viewpoint discrimination;

WHEREAS there is a long history of social reform movements effectively employing sometimes graphic victim imagery to expose and end injustice;

WHEREAS abortion victim photography in particular instills awareness of the humanity of the pre-born and the inhumanity of abortion;

WHEREAS efforts to restrict this awareness and censor images of either abortion victims or children in the womb aid in the perpetration of this injustice and result in severe harm;

Therefore, we the undersigned, demand that you pass no such by-law and abandon plans to censor the display and/or dissemination of fetal imagery.

Sincerely,

[The undersigned]

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Anonymous Hamilton, ON
Feb 28, 2024 - 01:33pm
I request the city government to take action to the matter!!
Mark O. Hamilton, ON
Feb 28, 2024 - 01:14pm
I am a Knights of Columbus member on Hamilton mountain and the council has been donating to Hamilton Ridht to :Life for a number of years.
Anonymous Saint-Jérôme, QC
Feb 28, 2024 - 01:09pm
Anonymous Bright's Grove , ON
Feb 28, 2024 - 01:01pm
Mary Ann H. Bruderheim , AB
Feb 28, 2024 - 12:50pm
Anonymous Windsor, ON
Feb 28, 2024 - 12:47pm
Donald G H. Codrington, ON
Feb 28, 2024 - 12:43pm
Pathetic cowards afraid to have honest dialogue
Mary Jane B. Guelph , ON
Feb 28, 2024 - 12:43pm
Denis D. SURREY, BC
Feb 28, 2024 - 12:37pm
What are you afraid of? The Truth!
Sunday T. Watford, ON
Feb 28, 2024 - 12:35pm
I am in awe of the creation of an unborn baby. To see a baby forming and growing. Wow. What a wondrous sight.
Anonymous Victoria, BC
Feb 28, 2024 - 12:31pm
Dale L. Taber, AB
Feb 28, 2024 - 12:26pm
Jessica B. Canfield, ON
Feb 28, 2024 - 12:20pm
People need to know the truth and understand how violent abortion is. We are all made in God’s image ??
Hubert F. Toronto, ON
Feb 28, 2024 - 12:05pm
Anonymous Grande Prairie, AB
Feb 28, 2024 - 11:58am