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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Steph Brawn

Supreme Court poses threat to abortion clinic buffer zones, says Green MSP

Green MSP Gillian Mackay (alongside Patrick Harvie) at the launch of her bill earlier this year

A BILL to implement anti-protest buffer zones around abortion clinics in Scotland could face a “huge problem” if the UK’s Supreme Court decides similar legislation in Northern Ireland is not in Stormont’s competency, a Green MSP has said.

A consultation is under way on Gillian Mackay’s Proposed Abortion Services Safe Access Zones (Scotland) Bill which, if passed, would make it illegal for anti-abortion protestors to hold demonstrations within 150m of a clinic entrance.

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