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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.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the difficulties surrounding freedom of expression
