UCP leader Jason Kenney calls abortion clinic legislation political game-playing

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The proposed legislation would create 50 metre buffer zones around abortion clinics to keep protesters away and would also forbid them from taking video or pictures of those going in or out under penalty of fines or jail terms.

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Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says the government began looking at legislation last year, and says Kenney is failing to stand up for women by abstaining on the vote.

The two main clinics in Alberta that handle about 75 per cent of all abortion procedures have civil restraining orders in place to keep protesters across the street, but they say demonstrators routinely ignore or violate those rules.

(The Canadian Press)