Pro-Life Activists Challenge Quebec Law Forcing Demonstrators to Keep Distance

Pro-Life Activists Challenge Quebec Law Forcing Demonstrators to Keep Distance
The Quebec Superior Court in Montreal in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz
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MONTREAL—A Montreal court is hearing final arguments today in a constitutional challenge of a Quebec law that requires protesters to stay 50 metres away from abortion clinics.

The Quebec Life Coalition and other plaintiffs say the 2016 law violates their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly guaranteed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.