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The Good Counsel Community held each day vigils outdoors the Marie Stopes clinic in Ealing
A invoice looking for to ban demonstrations outdoors abortion clinics will probably be launched by Labour MP Rupa Huq later.
Final 12 months, pro-life protesters misplaced a authorized problem towards the UK’s first buffer zone carried out round a clinic in Dr Huq’s constituency.
Ealing Council mentioned a 100-metre exclusion zone on the Marie Stopes centre had been put in place after girls complained of being intimidated.
The protesters mentioned they had been offering assist to these visiting the clinic.
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Dr Huq says: “This invoice would have them moved away from clinic gates of all abortion amenities to allow them to cease the emotional blackmail of calling girls approaching ‘mum’, lining the pavement with ugly foetus dolls and pictures and filming girls to disgrace them.”
Though Ealing Council has managed to legally take away anti-abortion protesters Dr Huq says that is “solely short-term” and can want reviewing subsequent spring.
She additionally says the method is “too onerous, costly, and the proof burden is simply too excessive to count on councils to select this up themselves”.
“This can be a nationwide drawback… that requires a nationwide resolution,” she says.
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Professional-choice demonstrators additionally gathered outdoors the clinic
Alina Dulgheriu who introduced the authorized problem towards Ealing Council, has mentioned the ban “criminalises speech, meeting, charitable assist and prayer”.
“My little woman is right here at present due to the true sensible and emotional assist that I used to be given by a gaggle outdoors a Marie Stopes centre, and I’m going to attraction this determination to make sure that girls don’t have this important assist choice eliminated,” she has mentioned.
“I can not think about a society the place a easy provide of assist to a girl who may wish to hold her little one is seen as a prison offence.”
Dr Huq will introduce her invoice to the Home of Commons at round 12:30 BST; nevertheless, with out authorities assist the laws may be very unlikely to change into regulation.