Pro-choice activists stage counter protest
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 | 5:20 PM AT
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Pro-choice supporters rallied in Fredericton on Tuesday afternoon to protest against tactics used by an anti-abortion group.
Dozens of people called Mayor Brad Woodside's home, the city and the police after an Ontario-based group called Show the Truth displayed large graphic images of aborted fetuses along Fredericton's main streets on Monday.
"It just crossed the line between a demonstration and a rally, and being confrontational and vulgar and crude," said Emma Stropel, who took part in the rally against the anti-abortion display.
"I was uncomfortable with the images and I was just uncomfortable with the idea. I completely support their right to demonstrate just as we do but there are levels, there are limits to what you can do."
Stropel said she feels women in New Brunswick should be able to get abortions more easily. They should all be publicly funded, no matter where they're performed, she said.
The provincial government doesn't fund abortions done at the Morgentaler clinic in Fredericton.
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