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considers ... Yep, pretty much fine with this. She was protesting (by her own admission, praying is seen as protesting under these circumstances because of the
by spacedcowboy 4y ago
considers ... Yep, pretty much fine with this.
She was protesting (by her own admission, praying is seen as protesting under these circumstances because of the god-squad taking an anti-abortion stance) within a restricted area outside an abortion clinic. Historically, the women going to get abortions have not had a great experience doing that, having to run a gauntlet of heckling and spewed invective... Hence the protesting restriction in the first place.
Silent protest is still protest, and you just can't do it there. If you want to do anything more than virtue-signal, then protest where it matters, where change can be effected... The issue is that the overwhelming majority of Brits (unlike the US Supreme Court) think a woman ought to be in charge of her own body, even if that body is pregnant, up until 24 weeks pregnant. If a Dr. agrees it's ok, then it is entirely her right (and no-one elses) whether she has an abortion.
And so these interfering busybodies who want to order and control other people's lives know they have no chance if they try to impose their beliefs through normal channels, and they choose to do their "protesting" in front of abortion clinics. No. Fuck off.
She is not being told she can't protest, she is being told she can't protest there. This is not a free-speech issue, it's a control issue, and the right for anyone to swing their fist ends just before it hits my nose; the same principle applies here, she can protest, but not in a way that interferes with another woman exercising her own rights.
In all, it's a non-story, just some political theatre scraped out of the dregs at the bottom of the barrel.
- someNameIG 4y agoWe have the same laws in Australia, protesting abortion clinics is allowed but can't be done within a certain distance from the clinic.