Protest-free buffers around abortion clinics

[Shaker]

No, I don't.

[Sassy]

Yvette Cooper has called for protest-free zones around abortion clinics, to prevent the harrassment and emotional upset of women going about their business, similar to the way in which the Westboro Baptist Church in the USA have been forced to keep their distance from funerals and suchlike:

The shadow home secretary said the government should introduce measures to enforce designated areas where anti-abortion protests could not be held, after organisations offering abortion services reported an increase in the number of protests outside clinics.

"Women should never be intimidated or threatened on their way to a healthcare appointment or on their way to work. No matter how strongly protesters feel about abortion themselves, they don’t have the right to harass, intimidate or film women who need to make their own very personal decision with their doctors," said Cooper.

"Everyone has the right to access legal healthcare, medical advice and support and to have some privacy and space to do so – and that includes abortion services."

In July, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service confirmed that an abortion clinic had been forced to close "as a direct result of protest activity." BPAS has reported that staff members and women seeking to terminate pregnancies have been confronted with images of foetuses and protesters have tried to film or photograph them entering and leaving clinics.

"Everyone should be allowed to hold legitimate protests. But they shouldn’t be intimidatory ones right in front of the doors of clinics – we don’t want US style abortion wars here," said Cooper.

"That’s why we need a new system of buffer zones which can be introduced to move the location of protests or prevent filming of staff and patients if problems arise."

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She's absolutely bang on the money here. The rights of free assembly and peaceful protest are upheld, and women get the medical care they seek unmolested.

Can I see the reports where women have been physically molested outside uk abortion clinics.... Please give us the links...

[Shaker]

I never mentioned "physically molested." Neither did anyone else - only you did. You needn't have a finger laid upon your person to be threatened, harrassed and intimidated, which is what this is about.

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I never mentioned "physically molested." Neither did anyone else - only you did. You needn't have a finger laid upon your person to be threatened, harrassed and intimidated, which is what this is about.

Agreed, you never said anything about anyone being physically molested!

[Sassy]

I never mentioned "physically molested." Neither did anyone else - only you did. You needn't have a finger laid upon your person to be threatened, harrassed and intimidated, which is what this is about.

Yes that is true but I did mention the UK....
I did ask for the links. What happens in the USA is there business.
What happens here is our concern. Because we don't always like what others think or believe, they still have a right to express it.

To be honest and fair... there is absolutely no reason outside rape or  medical/pill mishap for any unwanted pregnancy anywhere in the UK.
Take some responsibility if you do not want to get pregnant.

[Sassy]

I never mentioned "physically molested." Neither did anyone else - only you did. You needn't have a finger laid upon your person to be threatened, harrassed and intimidated, which is what this is about.

Agreed, you never said anything about anyone being physically molested!

I also mentioned the UK.

[Outrider]

To be honest and fair... there is absolutely no reason outside rape or  medical/pill mishap for any unwanted pregnancy anywhere in the UK. Take some responsibility if you do not want to get pregnant.

True. However, to follow that line of thinking, are people incapable of organising their lives without organising contraception really in the right place to be raising children?

As it is, everyone's capable of making mistakes...

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