
Demonstrators outside the American embassy in London, protesting against the decision to end constitutional protections for abortion in the US earlier this year
(Picture: PA Wire)Campaigners have responded in delight and relief as MPs voted through plans to introduce buffer zones around abortion clinics and hospitals.
The move would make it an offence to intimidate or harass people outside abortion services across England and Wales, in a bid to provide those using or working at such facilities greater protection from anti-abortion protesters.