A pro-life organization in Canada is able to ignore advertising police in a battle to keeps its ads on buses.

The Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform placed ads on city buses in Peterborough, Ontario, hoping to discourage abortion. Attorney Carol Crosson represents the organization.

Crosson tells OneNewsNow, "The ad in question was an advertisement that had two pictures of growing, pre-born babies with the caption 'Growing, Growing, Gone.' The third picture was a blank square and the caption read 'Abortion Kills Children.'"

A court battle with the city ensued last year after the pro-life group was pressured to have those ads removed. Recently the Centre received a letter from Advertising Standards Canada asking that the ads be taken down because of complaints, but Crosson says the pro-lifers won.

"It's a private advertising regulator," Crosson says, referring to Ad Standards. "So it issues opinions in regards to complaints that it receives and its opinions have no legal force. It's a non-governmental body and it self-admittedly does not consider the Charter right to freedom of expression in its opinions."

Consequently, says the attorney, those ads – "Growing, Growing, Gone ... Abortion Kills Children" – will remain on city buses in Peterborough.

"My client isn't about to remove an ad that the courts have said it has the right to post, simply because a private regulator doesn't like the ad," she told The Peterborough Examiner.