Anti-abortion activists ramping up protests outside clinics after buffer zone failure

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1. Please can these people fuck off. We need more US based extreme religious culture war wedge issues coming over here like a hole in the head, and most women’s choice to have an abortion is tough enough without these fanatics rocking up.

2. Can we just have some vigilantes teach them a lesson please?!

3. Fundys have been bankrolling the conservatives since the Cameron days.

4. We don’t need to import this from the US.  We currently have a system that works well, let’s not open up this wound.  That applies equally to those that want to restrict abortions and to those who want to relax restrictions to abortions.

   Just leave this one alone. 

5. The culture war is getting out of hand. Fuck the Tories.

6. Can these people please get a life? A life where their political and moral opinions don’t lead to abusing people at a vulnerable time in their lives? They can go take a nice nature walk instead.

   And it is abuse. They should be arrested for it.

7. Vile religious fruitcakes who let down the core tenants of their religion.

8. “Alliance Defending Freedom”…

   I absolutely abhore the names that these groups and think tanks give themselves.

   Also, it’s an American organization, which raises questions: who represents western values in this scenario and why is it not compatible with itself?

   There’s a lot of talk on this sub about “importing incompa’ible values”. But those numpties remains intentionally deaf and dumb when it comes to their own.

   These people are spitting at women and throwing “holy water” at them. They are doing the same and worse in the land they infest. Why do we not demand regime change in the US? Why do we not sanction them? Why do we not drone strike them?

9. Bollocks to these rat eating shitcunts. I hope they are dealt with extremely harshly.

10. I’m quite surprised these places aren’t a hotbed of assault and murder. Someone tried to make what may be one do the worst days of my life worse and I would just straight unload on them with everything I’ve got

11. Whenever I see these cunts, I like to take a little time out of my day to do my civic duty and explain to them quickly and concisely that they are indeed cunts.

12. It’s scary. Since Roe v Wade was overturned, and some of the states in USA started cancelling women’s reproductive rights, these extremists have been focusing even more on the UK. British police have also been investigating women who present at hospitals or antenatal clinics with miscarriages encouraged by medical staff who take the stance that there was no reason for pregnancy ‘failure’ so the mother must have done something wrong. If people think women in this country are safe from barbaric attitudes to their fertility, contraception, pregnancy care and abortion provision, they are mistaken. Women don’t have the right to abortion in this country, as they have to ensure 2 doctors agree that it is necessary within the current time limits. Where it can get very dicey is the assumption that women never make mistakes over their conception dates, as the 28 day cycle is purely an average. It’s possible, for instance, that a woman believes she is 10 weeks pregnant, but the foetus turns out to be 13. She takes abortion pills, and then potentially faces an investigation for getting her dates wrong. Even worse, a woman could miscarry at 28 weeks, then be arrested because someone from her medical team reports her for not carrying to full term, as in their opinion there was no medical reason for a miscarriage. Women have been imprisoned for this, and thrown into police cells within 24 hours of miscarrying after 24 weeks. The bozos protesting outside abortion clinics aren’t the only problem.

13. I love coming across these pricks and asking the men what the fuck they think they’re doing, and how is it any of their business what women choose to do with their bodies.

14. People in government are more invested in talking tough about stopping climate activists gluing themselves to roads, a nuisance for sure, but unthreatening.

    But when these religious nutters are actually menacing vulnerable members of the public, they can’t even be bothered to enforce the safeguards they’ve dragged their feet for years to introduce.

    It shows how performative a lot of government is, do what gets them page space in the tabloids.

15. Do these people give as much attention to social safety nets for the poor and disabled?

    Of course rhetorical because I know they don’t. The moment that fetus comes out these people could not care any less

16. And they say that what happens in America will in time, happen here.

    If you’re that concerned then go over the pond and do your protesting there along with all the other right wing idiots