Pro-Choice Man (Grzegorz Jurkiew) Sexually Harasses Pro-Life Women while Crowd Cheers
Channel: Toronto Against Abortion
Date: 2019-05-27

As members of our team were leaving Queen's Park Station after concluding our outreach outside a pro-choice rally at Queen's Park, a crowd gathered of pro-choicers leaving the rally early with signs like "GET DAT FETUS KILL DAT FETUS" and  "HAIL SATAN ABORT EVERYONE." While our team was leaving to avoid any altercations or pro-choice violence, two of our female team members were at the edge of our group, and Grzegorz Jurkiew, a pro-choice man attending the rally, pulled down his pants and exposed his backside twice while the pro-choice crowd cheered on this sexual harassment. The matter has been reported to Toronto Police.

The pro-choice demonstration had the stated purpose of supporting abortion and "addressing all gendered and racialized violence." It concluded with demonstrators celebrating abortion and cheering on a white pro-choice male while he pulled down his pants and exposed his backside to racialized and female members of our team.

We hope the organizers of the rally will condemn this sort of sexual harassment. We believe it is possible to have civil disagreement and civil discourse, without resort to violence or sexual harassment.