Pro-abortion activists ask the Scottish government to ban prayer vigils at abortion clinics
A pro-abortion movement asked the Scottish government to ban prayer groups and manifestations at abortion clinics, by introducing 150-metre 'buffer zones’ across Scotland at the gates of all hospitals and clinics that provide abortion services.
Last week, pro-abortion Edinburgh University students launched an initiative called ‘Back Off Chalmer’s’, after the pro-life movement demonstrated in front of the Chalmer clinic in Edinburgh. According to the students, these demonstrators denied women the right to privacy.
Besides this demonstration, many pro-life prayers are being held around Scotland, to rescue babies from being aborted.
Most gatherings are organised by the Texas-founded group 40 Days for Life, which holds two sets of 40-day protests a year – one during Lent, and one in the autumn, in which they stand with placards and leaflets, and pray outside hospitals every day usually from 7 am to 7 pm.
According to a pro-abortion activist Ella Cheney said:
“Anti-choice activity outside clinics is incoherent with our right to confidentiality access essential medical services – with our right to choose. (…) This is particularly an issue in Scotland as the majority of protests are outside hospitals and therefore vulnerable people, including pregnant people attending maternity units for miscarriages are forced to pass these protests.”
The abortion activists have launched a petition demanding the government to introduce 150-metre ‘buffer zones’ across Scotland at the gates of all hospitals and clinics that provide abortion services, to protect mothers from a spiritually enduring experience before killing their babies.
