Lawyers were in court recently as preliminary details regarding the proposed injunction against pro-life activity in Ontario were settled. The Provincial Attorney General Marion Boyd has presented eight volumes of evidence which she plans to use against the 18 pro-lifers named in the lawsuit.
The province is launching a lawsuit for $500,000 against the 18, and is applying for an injunction at 23 locations. The injunction would restrict pro-life activity within 500 hundred feet of abortion centres, abortion-providing hospitals, and doctor’s offices and homes across the province.
The injunction was one of the recommendations of a Task Group Report presented by abortion providers and activists to the Ministry of Health.
Three abortion clinics in Toronto have applied to be added as parties to the case.
The Attorney General originally scheduled the case to be heard in August, but Peter Jarvis and David Brown, lawyers for 17 of the pro-life defendants in the case, were granted an extension to January of 1994.
