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Warning: This story contains references to graphic images of anti-abortion signage that may be upsetting to some readers.
Complaints over anti-abortion flyers delivered to Saskatoon homes will be discussed at Saskatoon’s Governance and Priorities Committee today.
Ward 9 Councillor Bev Dubois is asking city administration to look at options to regulate the delivery of graphic flyers to homes in Saskatoon.
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Dubois’ motion follows complaints after flyers showing aborted fetuses were distributed to some residents during the week of August 10.
Currently, the City of Saskatoon does not have any regulations governing how graphic flyers are delivered to residents.
Angie Kells with the Saskatoon Abortion Support Network is expected to speak at city hall. Kells launched a petition signed by nearly 3,000 people calling for a bylaw to protect residents from graphic imagery.
“We are passionate about protecting the right to protest; however we have deep concerns regarding the use of graphic and misleading images,” the petition said.
“People have been harmed by seeing these images, whether children for whom seeing bloody and dismembered body parts is scary, or women who have experienced a pregnancy loss of any form.”
The Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) confirmed in an email it was the group behind protests in Saskatoon and Regina in August.
“While the frequency of our displays varies, our goal is to show all Canadians that abortion dismembers and decapitates the youngest members of the human family,” Quiana Casamayor said on behalf of the organization.
According to the statement, the organization brings a message of peace to end the “violence” of abortion.
In a previous interview with CKOM News, Jayne Walters, executive director of the Broadway Business Improvement District (BID), said they noticed a group of about 12 young people protesting along various parts of Broadway on Aug. 11, 12 and 14.
“We actually didn’t notice it ourselves at the BID office until we had businesses calling our phone line to ask questions, inquire and find out what was going on, and that’s what actually brought us out onto the street,” Walters said.
According to Walters, the signs protesters held were “quite graphic” and “quite large.”
“And so it was concerning just the nature of the imagery people were trying to avert their eyes from seeing it, but then in doing so it was unsafe to cross at the crosswalks,” she said.
— with files from 650 CKOM’s Libby Gray
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