Abortion clinics will be surrounded by 150-metre ‘buffer zones’ that severely restrict protesters after a landmark vote by MPs tonight.
Activists could be jailed for up to two years if they “seek to influence” women seeking an abortion, “impede, threaten, intimidate or harass” them, or “persistently, continuously or repeatedly” protest in the area.
The move passed 297-110 in the Commons, despite the government branding it a “blunt instrument”, after Tory MPs were given a free vote.
