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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Glasgow MSP rebuked for defending anti-abortion protests at clinics

John Mason, the Scottish National party MSP for Glasgow Shettleston.
John Mason, the Scottish National party MSP for Glasgow Shettleston. Photograph: Ken Jack/Getty Images

A Scottish National party MSP has been reprimanded for defending anti-abortion protests outside health clinics.

In a written warning from party whips at Holyrood, John Mason, the Glasgow Shettleston MSP, was accused of causing “great distress and trauma to many women”.

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