Pro-life demonstrators provided a counterweight to a widely-publicized pro-abortion rally held February 10 in the council chamber of Toronto’s City Hall.
Questions put to the pro-abortion speakers were answered with cries of ‘fascists,’ ‘male chauvinists’ and gutter language.
City alderman Jack Layton had issued a call for supporters of abortion on demand to assemble in the City Hall Council chamber to voice their opposition to the government’s proposed abortion bill. But when the pro-lifers revealed themselves, their picket signs were ripped up and some were assaulted as attempts were made to eject them.
Pro-abortion participants were predominantly women and included Marxist fringe groups and admitted homosexuals.
The pro-life picket signs reading “Keep Murder Legal” parodied the standard pro-abortion slogan. A pro-life banner read, “Extend Choice to 43 Weeks.”
Unable to control their rage, pro-abortionists began to push and shove the pro-lifers until they were involved in an altercation with the police, punching them, knocking off their hats and shouting “fascist pigs.” Some tried to grab the officers’ guns. This brought out the billy clubs.
Police arrested two of the wildest and shipped them off to the local police station. The pro-abortionists responded by demonstrating in front of 52 Division until senior officers released the two. So angered were the junior constables who had borne the brunt of the assault that they planned to file a public complaint against their superiors.
On February 2, two of the pro-abortionist demonstrators, William Kay, 29, of Walmer Road and Kathleen Brinkman, 26, of Isabella St. in Toronto, were changed with assaulting and obstructing police.
