{"id":231876,"date":"2019-09-22T06:24:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=231876"},"modified":"2019-09-22T06:24:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:24:45","slug":"second-abortion-related-film-to-be-shown-at-high-school-theatre-in-new-brunswick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/22\/second-abortion-related-film-to-be-shown-at-high-school-theatre-in-new-brunswick\/","title":{"rendered":"Second abortion-related film to be shown at high school theatre in New Brunswick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saint John city councillor David Hickey identifies himself as pro-choice, but said showing the latest film just looks like an effort to \u201cone-up\u201d the first movie and that doesn’t help the debate. (File Photo<\/a>: DavidHickeyNB\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SAINT JOHN, N.B. \u2014 A month after the showing of a controversial anti-abortion film at a high school theatre in New Brunswick, opponents of that film are screening a documentary on access to abortions at the same school Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Organizer Raven Blue was among the opponents when the controversial film \u201cUnplanned\u201d was shown at Saint John High School in August.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnplanned\u201d looks at a Planned Parenthood clinic director in Texas who becomes an anti-abortion speaker.<\/p>\n

Blue said \u201cUnplanned\u201d has factual errors and is misleading.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt it was very harmful to be showing it in a public school,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, Blue said he has no problem with \u201cTrapped\u201d being shown in the same location because it’s a documentary.<\/p>\n

\u201c’Trapped’ is showing how in the United States, even though constitutionally they are protected to have access to abortions, individual states have been slowly whittling away access to abortion through different laws that restrict access,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He calls it a cautionary tale for provinces like New Brunswick.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though we are protected by charter rights to have access, the actual reality of it is many people can’t afford to have an abortion and they can’t get transportation. We think this is relevant here in New Brunswick and many parts of Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTrapped\u201d follows clinic workers and lawyers fighting to maintain access to abortions across the United States.<\/p>\n

Saint John city councillor David Hickey identifies himself as pro-choice, but said showing the latest film just looks like an effort to \u201cone-up\u201d the first movie and that doesn’t help the debate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think going ahead and showing something at the school in an attempt to retaliate against the showing of ‘Unplanned’ is the way to do things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Hickey was among a group of people who protested against the screening of the first film at the school.<\/p>\n

That group organized via a Facebook group stated \u201ca public school is not the place for such dishonest, dangerous, political and religious propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zoe Watson, superintendent of Anglophone School District South, said the films have not been organized by the district and the people who rented the theatre have the rights to show the film.<\/p>\n

Still, Hickey \u2014 who isn’t involved in the showing of \u201cTrapped\u201d \u2014 said he doesn’t think it should he shown at the school either.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think it’s the place for these political statements, either pro-life or pro-choice. I don’t think a school is the place for this,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnplanned\u201d had been listed on the City of Saint John events webpage, but \u201cTrapped\u201d didn’t get the same promotion, because the city has taken down the page while a policy on its content is developed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt became clear to senior staff that there was no policy in place around what goes onto that events page. It wasn’t because of this event but rather because there was no policy in general,\u201d Hickey said.<\/p>\n

Blue said a dollar from every ticket sold to the Saturday night viewing will be donated to Clinic 554 \u2014 the former Morgentaler abortion clinic in Fredericton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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