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Prayer and prosecutions: the US ‘hate group’ waging war over Britain’s abortion clinic buffer zones (www.theguardian.com)
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Rachael Clarke remembers life before buffer zones. Almost every day, the head of staff at the UK’s biggest abortion provider would get emails from staff worried about protesters outside clinics – and women crying in the waiting room.

Since buffer zones were rolled out nationally late last year – building on public space protection orders that were already in place outside some clinics – she says things have drastically improved.

Reports of alleged harassment outside British Pregnancy Advisory Service clinics have stopped almost completely. So when she heard JD Vance, the US vice-president, decrying buffer zone laws as an attack on the “liberties of religious Britons” in a speech on Friday at the Munich Security Conference – and condemning the conviction of a man, Adam Smith-Connor, who he said had been targeted for “just silently praying on his own” – she wasn’t impressed. “You can’t see these things in isolation,” she says.

Rather than being a one-off, Clarke sees the Smith-Connor case as part of a wider effort by anti-abortion campaigners to test the new law to the limits – and shift the focus away from the true reason for buffer zones to a debate about freedom of speech.

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[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Right, but Americans are coming over and doing this shit, not the government.

[–] RedAggroBest 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

JD Vance isn't part of the government? Nothing in this article is a civilian doing anything, unless you mean more than this article with "this shit" at which point I'm lost and you'll need to expand your point for me.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As the article says, Vance is far from the only one doing this.

[–] RedAggroBest 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're really going to have to clarify on "this". I really am not trying to be obtuse but as far as I see, Americans aren't going on vacation in Europe to protest abortion or making speeches in support of right wing populists. It's govt officials doing that. American tourists are friendly on average.