{"id":22009,"date":"2014-08-15T01:55:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T17:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22009"},"modified":"2014-08-15T01:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T17:55:38","slug":"charlottetown-mayor-says-no-bylaw-to-stop-graphic-anti-abortion-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/15\/charlottetown-mayor-says-no-bylaw-to-stop-graphic-anti-abortion-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlottetown mayor says no bylaw to stop graphic anti abortion images"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22084\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Clifford-J-Lee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22084\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Clifford-J-Lee.jpg\" alt=\"Clifford J Lee\" width=\"300\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlottetown Mayor Clifford J. Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CHARLOTTETOWN &#8212; Charlottetown Mayor Clifford Lee says there&#8217;s nothing the city can do to stop the display of graphic images from anti-abortion protesters.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s despite a recent online petition calling for the city to enact a bylaw that would prohibit the distribution and display of graphic images of dead fetuses.<\/p>\n<p>Lee says he understands people&#8217;s concerns about the images, but the city&#8217;s lawyers have told him a bylaw would violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the anti-abortion group Show the Truth was in P.E.I. protesting a conference at UPEI called Abortion The Unfinished Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Show the Truth supporters passed out pamphlets showing images of supposedly aborted fetuses and held large signs with similar images along some Charlottetown streets.<\/p>\n<p>Lee says as long as the protests are peaceful and not pornographic the city can&#8217;t restrict them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTETOWN &#8212; Charlottetown Mayor Clifford Lee says there&#8217;s nothing the city can do to stop the display of graphic images &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}