Posted on 02/20/2025 1:01:41 PM PST by simpson96
A 74-year-old woman has become the first person to be arrested and charged under a Scottish law banning protests outside abortion clinics.
She was arrested close to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and was charged in connection with breach of an exclusion zone.
Officers removed a sign from the area - which had been held by the woman who was arrested - that read "coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want".
The Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act came into force last year.
The legislation prevents any protests or vigils taking place within 200m (656ft) of 30 clinics offering abortion services in Scotland. (snip)
[Scottish Greens MSP] Gillian Mackay said: "The protests that have taken place outside Queen Elizabeth have been utterly shameful and I am grateful to Police Scotland for acting so quickly.
"This kind of intimidation has no place in a modern or progressive Scotland. Everybody deserves to have access to healthcare without harassment."
Anti-abortion group 40 Days for Life has advertised a spring vigil near the hospital starting next month.
BBC Scotland News has asked the group to comment.
Mackay added: "I urge 40 Days For Life and anyone else who is planning to protest in a safe access zone to think again, as they will be stopped and there will be consequences."
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Mackay called these women "disgraceful".
Target this clown with sanctions, please POTUS!
Besides eating, it looks like this creature has found something that gives meaning to her life; aiding and abetting in the painful butchery of yet to be born humans.
Sick. Evil. Demonic.
Bkmk
There was a man the other day arrested because he was across the street from a clinic who was praying silently to himself not bothering anyone.
Sadly, marking Scotland off my bucket list.
Churchill was wrong, the fascists did win the Battle of Britain.
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