Petition

Hamilton City Council: Don’t censor images of pre-born humans!

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To: Hamilton City Council

WHEREAS city staff have been directed to produce a report by Q2 2024 on the feasibility of creating a by-law that would require flyers containing fetal images be concealed in sealed envelopes with a warning and sender information when delivered to Hamilton residences;

WHEREAS staff have also been asked “to explore the feasibility of regulating or prohibiting graphic imagery that is carried, held or displayed in public spaces”;

WHEREAS Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects the fundamental freedom of expression, and such freedom is necessary for the function of any democracy;

WHEREAS the Association for Reformed Political Action recently initiated litigation to challenge the constitutionality of the “By-law to regulate the Delivery of Graphic Images in the City of St. Catharines” (By-law No. 2023-150);

WHEREAS “images showing, or claiming to show, a fetus or any part of a fetus” encompass not only abortion victim photography but also ultrasound photos and scientific images of fetal development;

WHEREAS the purpose of arbitrarily restricting the dissemination of fetal imagery is evidently viewpoint discrimination;

WHEREAS there is a long history of social reform movements effectively employing sometimes graphic victim imagery to expose and end injustice;

WHEREAS abortion victim photography in particular instills awareness of the humanity of the pre-born and the inhumanity of abortion;

WHEREAS efforts to restrict this awareness and censor images of either abortion victims or children in the womb aid in the perpetration of this injustice and result in severe harm;

Therefore, we the undersigned, demand that you pass no such by-law and abandon plans to censor the display and/or dissemination of fetal imagery.

Sincerely,

[The undersigned]

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Anonymous Neilburg, SK
Aug 1, 2025 - 05:54pm
The truth and reality of unborn humans in their humanness must come to light. The unborn humans are not a blob of cells, as we are told. 24 days after conception the tiny heart begins to beat.Life begins at conception. If the law forbids imagery of the unborn humans, it proves that they want to hide that truth from the public.
Patricia C. McGregor, ON
Jul 22, 2025 - 02:35pm
Anonymous Burlington, ON
Jul 21, 2025 - 03:57pm
Joshua K. Arnprior, ON
Jul 3, 2025 - 01:15pm
Anonymous Lethbridge , AB
Apr 28, 2025 - 03:38pm
Arlene M. Oshawa, ON
Mar 13, 2025 - 06:02pm
pierre N. georgetown, ON
Mar 6, 2025 - 06:24pm
Jean H. Walkerton, ON
Feb 26, 2025 - 11:08am
Benoit S. Beaumont, AB
Feb 19, 2025 - 05:42pm
Lorraine H. Beaumont, AB
Feb 19, 2025 - 05:41pm
Brennan G. Stoney Creek, ON
Dec 15, 2024 - 01:56am
Ben V. L0R 1V0, ON
Oct 22, 2024 - 09:03pm
To help people make the right devisions we have to inform/ educate them
Claudio D. Hamilton, ON
Oct 10, 2024 - 08:49pm
Don't violate the freedom of expression of Canadians that is enshrined in our Constitution.
Barbara H. Brighton, ON
Oct 7, 2024 - 11:17am
Irene C. Edmonton, AB
Oct 3, 2024 - 01:16pm