Abortion: UK women face protests by emboldened campaigners

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  1. Anyone who doesn’t believe women should have the right to safe abortions performed by medical professionals and suitable aftercare can categorically go fuck themselves. In fact, let them get dicked-down by the horse they rode in on.

    These regressive, mysoginistc animals should be ashamed of intimidating women who seek help, but I know that demands more empathy than they’re capable of.

  2. Add this from the Times:

    >Times: [Britain is next, declare clinic protesters after anti-abortion victory in America](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britain-is-next-declare-clinic-protesters-after-anti-abortion-victory-in-america-zsnhvdbcn) – ([🪞](https://archive.ph/qN8LC))
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    >Buoyed by the decision to overturn Roe v Wade, activists in the UK are stepping up their efforts, writes Lucy Bannerman

    This is from 2019:

    >[Special Report – Far right in Ireland: ‘Dark money’ and the price of democracy](https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30929727.html)
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    >Many associate the murky world of ‘dark money’ with the US political system, but its influence has reached far closer to home, including European elections and Ireland’s anti-abortion movement, says Joyce Fegan

    etc….

  3. If these people don’t want abortions they don’t have to have them but they can’t dictate that others cannot. If they do not wish to live in a modern civilised country then that’s their issue not the civilised society.

  4. To the people who insisted in 2016 that US politics has no impact on the rest of the world, and Trump’s election means nothing for us, this is the impact. The Supreme Court decision isn’t just an offence on American women. It’s an offence on all of us.

  5. We seriously need to find a way to shove these Christian fascist psychos back into the shadows from which they are now emerging, lest we end up like the USA.

    You cannot reason with these lunatics, or bargain with them. They are cowards and morons who understand only force and censure. They must be stopped before they can unleash harm on our society.

  6. I’ve noticed something in all the news coverage of these anti-abortionists…

    The majority of the protestors are men.

    Followed by women over child bearing age.

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    Funny that.

  7. There’s a local group of abortion protestors who seem to have become a lot louder since the announcements in the US. Thankfully they seem to have been met with plenty of opposition but it’s like they’ve crawled out of the woodwork. Fair enough, don’t like abortion, don’t get one. But don’t look down on those people that do want one or have had one.

  8. Use the new laws banning protests to lock them up, might as well use them for something good. Sometimes the Laws of Unintended Consequences work for the good.

  9. Fuck every single one of these protestors. We are not the US, we as a country have so much more to deal with right now than you miserable cunts. We’re beyond this issue, its been put to bed already. Abortions are safe and legal in this country. If you want to change that and persecute people based on your religious beliefs, do as the pilgrims did hundreds of years ago and fuck off to some far flung corner of the globe to practice your hateful bullshit there.

  10. What a bunch of self entitled cunts, this isn’t about reproduction or religion, this is about control. And these bunch of radical idiots are trying to copy the most backwards ruling of modern day society.

  11. My wife had to have one once and we were protested outside. I’m very much a lover not a fighter but i’ve never came closer to knocking someone’s lights out than I was that day. I remember my wife seeing my fists clench and just saying “leave it”. I’m still tinged with a bit of regret to this day.

  12. I keep seeing people claim we couldn’t have the same sort of anti-choice campaigns here as in the US due to the UK being less religious.

    However, as we’ve seen after a decade or 2 of dedicated propaganda you can make 17.4m Brits vote for something utterly idiotic.

    On top of that old people are far less likely to need an abortion. They’d be ripe for stories about “Woke Commies want to kill your unborn grand-kids” in the gutter press. The right wing here don’t seem to have much of a coherent policy position anymore, they’ll just adopt any US culture war narrative and a depressing number of Brit eat it up.

  13. There were comments making fun of protestors in the UK last week because of the Roe V Wade overturning. This is why those protests are important: because the misogynists over here will now feel emboldened to try and do the same, and that can’t be allowed to happen.

  14. That’s ok I’m sure the new anti protest rules will sort these people out quite quickly right? Right??

  15. Whether you are pro or against it, the fact it’s law means those seeking services should be able to go about their business privately without fear or intimidation. Perhaps if these protesters we’re actually aware, not everybody going in there is seeking an abortion.

  16. If you harrass and intimidate pregnant people who are having to make a difficult decision, people who may have been assaulted and abused, people who are scared and vulnerable, then you are a cunt. A massive inexcusable cunt. You lack empathy, you lack compassion, you lack any redeeming qualities, you lack anything that gives you any value as a human being. Your continued use of oxygen offends me.

  17. Fuck off with this shit.

    Fuck your stupid, made-up Lord. Fuck your stupid, nonexistent afterlife. Fuck your fucked up, ridiculous notions of morality which condemn people to forego medical advancements and ignore truths to fit a narrative you’ve determined is the “one truth”.

    It’s absolute bollocks. Shut the fuck up.

  18. I don’t know if they still fly over since covid, but when I lived in Oxford there was a group from the US that would fly out and start shouting anti-abortion nonsense on the streets. Telling us we were going to hell, etc. All over loudspeaker, you could hear it from a large distance.

    There was a schoolgirl break down in her uniform sobbing, and her friends comforted her, but police still didn’t move the group on.

    I’ve aborted before, and seen the protestors first hand. I’ve had nutjobs say I should have birthed babies for my rapists when I was barely even a teenager. Those voices absolutely will be encouraged by the stuff going down in the US.

    They always talk about adoption like it’s an easy option. It absolutely isn’t. And abortions for medical reasons definitely exist too. They just want to punish.

  19. Believe me, there are people in the Conservative party eyeing up what’s happening in the US with keen interest. Things are going to be a right mess when the next election rolls around, a good old fashioned culture war might be just what the doctor ordered to get a few wavering voters back on side

  20. The venn diagram of people who think a woman should be forced to have an unwanted child and people who think the government are not responsible for ensuring children do not live in poverty is a circle.

  21. Why do these people want kids to be born to people that don’t WANT them?!? It’s the bare minimum kids deserve and they don’t even want that. They just want to increase human suffering so their own lives look better by comparison.

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