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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Frances Ryan

It’s not just the US, Britain needs no-protest buffer zones around its abortion clinics too

Anti-choice protesters outside a Marie Stopes clinic in Ealing, London, 2017
Anti-choice protesters outside a Marie Stopes clinic in Ealing, London, 2017. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Thousands of miles from the United States supreme court, protesters have been targeting women outside the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

Recent weeks have seen reports of rising levels of anti-abortion protests outside Scottish hospitals, as well as ongoing anti-choice activism outside clinics across the UK. The methods are as varied as they are cruel. Calling women “Mummy!” as they walk by. Leaflets warning falsely that abortion causes cancer. Waving medically incorrect foetus dolls. Those who would force a woman through childbirth do not flinch from causing a woman distress.

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