ANTI-ABORTION campaigners have gone to the High Court to overturn a ban on harassing women at abortion clinics, claiming it is “unlawful, invalid and unjustified.”

Ealing Council installed a 100m “buffer zone” outside a Marie Stopes clinic in west London following a “long history of anti-abortion groups being present outside the entrance gates.”

The council introduced the protest-free zone by enforcing a public spaces protection order (PSPO) in April in response to reports of “intimidation, harassment and distress” for women using the facility.