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U of C charges campus anti-abortion group for trespassing
A group of pro-life student activists are heading to court this month after the University of Calgary charged them with trespassing.
Campus Pro-Life and university administrators have been locked in an ongoing dispute over a controversial anti-abortion display called the Genocide Awareness Project, which puts images of dead fetuses next to Holocaust or Rwanda genocide victims.
On November 26, the student group went ahead with plans to erect the display against the university's requests to turn the graphic images inward to protect those who didn't wish to see them.
More than two months later, some of the students behind the project have been charged with trespassing and received summonses to court on Feb 27.
"It's surprising, to say the least, as well as disappointing," said Campus Pro-Life president Leah Hallman.
"I agree we were warned (about the possibility of legal action.) But we had a lot of hope. now a lot of that hope has now been crushed."
U of C has not yet responded to a request for comment.
But in a written statement issued when the display was put up in November, the university administration said it has "asked the Calgary Police Service to issue the appropriate summonses to the individuals ignoring the notice of trespass or to take other appropriate steps to enforce the directive."
It went on to say the matter might be resolved "through the court system."
A group of pro-life student activists are heading to court this month after the University of Calgary charged them with trespassing.
Campus Pro-Life and university administrators have been locked in an ongoing dispute over a controversial anti-abortion display called the Genocide Awareness Project, which puts images of dead fetuses next to Holocaust or Rwanda genocide victims.
On November 26, the student group went ahead with plans to erect the display against the university's requests to turn the graphic images inward to protect those who didn't wish to see them.
More than two months later, some of the students behind the project have been charged with trespassing and received summonses to court on Feb 27.
"It's surprising, to say the least, as well as disappointing," said Campus Pro-Life president Leah Hallman.
"I agree we were warned (about the possibility of legal action.) But we had a lot of hope. now a lot of that hope has now been crushed."
U of C has not yet responded to a request for comment.
But in a written statement issued when the display was put up in November, the university administration said it has "asked the Calgary Police Service to issue the appropriate summonses to the individuals ignoring the notice of trespass or to take other appropriate steps to enforce the directive."
It went on to say the matter might be resolved "through the court system."
That is all.
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