The Acacia Group’s Albertos Polizogopoulos is co-counsel in the case.
An excerpt from The Catholic Register
An 87-year-old Jesuit priest arrested in 2018 with violating Ontario’s abortion “bubble zone” law had the charges against him abruptly dropped today – almost four years to the day after his arrest.
“I owe (the) victory to God, and His intervention on my behalf, and on behalf of victims of the abortion industry,” Fr. Tony Van Hee said after the Crown advised the Ontario Court of Justice in Ottawa that the case wouldn’t proceed. “I am obviously pleased with the Crown’s acknowledgment that its prosecution was not in the public interest. It has been my position from the start that this legislation is unacceptable.”
Lawyers for Fr. Van Hee say that the end of the anti-abortion campaigner’s criminal legal fight is also the beginning of a constitutional fight against the law itself.
Fr. Van Hee, who conducted an anti-abortion prayer protest on Parliament Hill for almost three decades, was picked up by Ottawa police Oct. 24, 2018 across the street from the Morgentaler abortion clinic in the city’s downtown. He was holding a sign that read: “The Primacy of Free Speech: Cornerstone of Western Civilization “ and “Without Free Speech the State is a Corpse.” He was subsequently charged under the 2017 Safe Access to Abortion Services Act for being within a 50-metre “bubble zone” outside the clinic.
Read the full article at The Catholic Register.