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Police arrest Carleton Lifeline members in October.

A Canadian pro-life group has been de-recognized at Carleton University by the school’s student association.

The Carleton University Student Association (CUSA) has banned the group, Carleton Lifeline, because the group’s pro-life views violate CUSA’s anti-discrimination policy, which “respects and affirms a woman’s right to choose her options in case of pregnancy.”

A lawyer for Carleton Lifeline has said the group will sue CUSA if the ban is not reversed, according to the National Post.

Last month, five students associated with Carleton Lifeline were arrested on Carleton’s campus after they refused to move a pro-life display that featured graphic images of abortions, and compared abortion to historical genocides.

University officials offered the group space elsewhere on campus, in what Carleton Lifeline group members said was a remote location. A spokesman for the university said the location was offered to give Carleton students the option of viewing potentially offensive content with fair warning.

Ruth Lobo, one of the students arrested, called the compromise paternalistic and discriminatory.

“If someone doesn’t want to look at an advertisement or hear something on TV, you have the choice to change the channel,” Lobo said. “In the same way, if someone is offended by a public display or ad, you have the choice to look away. Would the University have acted the same way if Lifeline was only showing images of the Holocaust and Rwanda?”

Video of the students being arrested is below:

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