Pro-choice campaigners have pre-empted a group of anti-abortion protesters on their final day of action outside a Glasgow maternity unit with a huge display of posters.
The metres-long display of around 200 cardboard signs, bearing messages such as "bans don't stop abortions - they stop safe abortions" and "my rights, my body, my choice", were arranged by LGBTQ+ protest group Cabaret Against The Hate Speech (CATHS). They were put up before members of 40 Days for Life arrived outside the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital on Sunday for the last of 40 days of anti-choice action.
40 Days for Life, which is linked to an US Christian organisation of the same name, has staged almost six weeks of protests outside the Glasgow hospital's maternity unit in a bid to dissuade women from ending pregnancies. It claims to be a non-confrontational organisation, but in the past it has been accused of intimidating women as they head for difficult termination appointments.
