City council voted for pictures to come with warnings and delivered in envelopes
A Niagara resident is expressing concern to St. Catharines city council about graphic images of aborted fetuses delivered in the mail.
Council voted Monday night not to ban delivery, but require images be put in envelopes along with a warning. The by-law also requires that information about who delivered the flyers, excluding Canada Post, be put in the package.
Ann-Marie Zammit recalled what happened when she got one in the mail.
"It caught me completely off guard, and I cried when I saw this. Thank goodness I was the one who retrieved the mail that day, and not my 11-year old daughter. She loves babies, and still asks for when she can have a baby brother or sister," she says.
She adds the group delivering them, on its website, condemns all forms of abortion related violence. "But what they fail to recognize, is that by having their volunteers deliver these graphic flyers, they are perpetrators of violence. It is an assault to subject unsuspecting people to those images without warning."
She pointed out we see warnings of violence often, referring to newscasts of bloody war zones.
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