Anti-abortion campaigner convicted of breaching buffer zone outside UK clinic

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1. One million pounds of US funding to anti-abortion groups in Scotland i hear. US colonialism, they just cannot stop themselves.

2. Good. There should be no US-backed delegation to support someone who has broken a law. This isn’t the US, and these women have the right to medical care without interference from busybodies.

3. Good. Hope they throw the book at everyone who tries to harass women getting healthcare like this.

4. Americans calling the UK a police state for enforcing its laws incoming.

5. If you’re anti-abortion you should be entitled to those views and to not have abortions yourself.

   You don’t get to try and cram that down other people’s throats, especially at what’s a very emotionally sensitive time for a lot of women.

   Hope they throw the book at them.

6. I don’t even get why this is being made into such a big issue. The law is pretty clear regarding buffer zones around abortion clinics, and for good reason as people shouldn’t be allowed to pressurise or harass vulnerable, young women seeking access to safe abortions.

7. These are the foreign terrorists that are invading our country and harassing our women who we should be paying close attention to.

8. But I keep hearing Americans say “I don’t care about that country AMERICA FIRST BABBBY” well if it’s American first and you don’t care about another country get the fuck out of the country and mind your business !? Just can’t bloody help themselves with trying to change anything that isn’t “American” enough.

9. If they were truly Christian they would not be hassling people seeking medical care. A prayer can be said miles away from a health clinic. It’s intimidation pure and simple.

10. The buffer zone thing strikes me as a perfectly reasonable free speech compromise.

    You can still have your anti abortion protest/rally but it also gives people going through something very difficult some space.

11. Good!

    Last year I arranged a protest outside BCP town hall ahead of a full council meeting, relating to SEND services. There was a lot going on at the time and so there were three separate protests outside the same meeting. This group were there.

    I didn’t know who they were because they were holding signs about the council denying them their right to pray. I was busy so didn’t think much of it, except that didn’t sound right.

    Only found out from other protestors later that they were handing out flyers saying the exclusion zone around the abortion clinic was legally breaching their right to pray wherever they wanted.

    Absolute disgrace.

12. Good, more of this and punishment as harsh as just stop oil please, stamp it out when it’s just embers

13. JD Vance is concerned about her right to free speech, I’m concerned about the well-being of women being harassed outside abortion clinics.

14. Good. Throw the book at them. We really shouldn’t give these loons an inch.

15. Feels like she missed the part of the bible where it says Jesus can hear her from her front room so she doesn’t need to hang out near the clinic

16. Can’t wait for Americans in a country where any criticism of their president is getting silenced, consequently criticises our lack of free speech.

17. Lets be clear here, these people are not British Citizens.

    If they want to fly over here, protest over an issue they have absolutely no stake in (politically) and they have no right to vote upon, then that falls squarely into the realm of Foreign interference.

    Their groups should be put on a watchlist and if they attempt to fly to this country be immediately deported back on the grounds of national security.

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