Tue Oct 18, 2022 – 10:14 am EDTTue Oct 18, 2022 – 10:15 am EDT
BOURNEMOTUH, England (LifeSiteNews) — An abortion clinic in Bournemouth, England, is the latest to get a so-called “buffer zone” – a “no free-speech” bubble created to prevent pro-life activists from offering women arriving to procure abortions other alternatives.
The justification, of course, is that pro-lifers are “harassing” both women and the abortion clinic staff. The zone will be a large one, encompassing six streets for twelve hours a day during business days, and will be in effect for at least the next three years.
Examples of “harassment” cited as reasons the zone was necessary include women being told that their “baby loves them,” pro-lifers holding plastic fetal models and offering pamphlets, referring to the women as “mummy,” and offering baby clothes. Any person doing any of those things will now be subject to a £100 fine and charges at a magistrates’ court.
But the prohibition covers a lot more than that. The newly erected signs, which denote the alleged “Safe Zone” in which the British Pregnancy Advisory Service can kill babies without anyone there to speak for them, feature a list
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