A pro-life campaigner who told authorities he was “praying silently for his son” is challenging his fine for breaching an exclusion zone outside a Birmingham abortion clinic. Adam Smith-Connor is challenging a £100 council fine after he was found to be praying near an abortion facility in a buffer zone in Bournemouth, southwest UK, last…
UK MPs Back Proposals to Introduce Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones
UK MPs have supported proposals to make anti-abortion protests and vigils around clinics a criminal offence in England and Wales. An amendment to the Public Order Bill to introduce buffer zones around abortion clinics has been backed by a cross-party group of MPs. The legislation was proposed by the left-wing Labour MP Stella Creasy. A…
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