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‘Stop This Talk’: Pro-Abortion Activists Shut Down Pro-Life Speaker at Edinburgh University in Scotland
LifeSite News ^ | 10/18/22 | Dorothy Cummings McLean

Posted on 10/31/2022 6:05:12 PM PDT by marshmallow

'We are disrupting this talk. We’re not letting you spread your harmful rhetoric against people with uteruses [sic]…. We are not allowing this to happen on our campus.'

EDINBURGH (LifeSiteNews) – A group of pro-abortion demonstrators interrupted a pro-life lecture at Edinburgh University last night, effectively silencing the woman presenter and taking control of the meeting.

“Stop this talk right now,” shouted a North American woman through a megaphone. “We are disrupting this talk. We’re not letting you spread your harmful rhetoric against people with uteruses [sic]…. We are not allowing this to happen on our campus.”

Margaret Akers of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) Scotland had been invited by the university’s Life Society to give a talk on campus at 7 PM, October 17. The title of Akers’ talk was “My body, my choice? The role pressure and coercion play in the decision to have an abortion.”

A small group of sympathetic listeners and a larger group of pro-abortion students holding banners gathered in a classroom and listened to Akers’ lecture for about 9 minutes before the megaphone-wielding woman and her sign-carrying companions burst into the room. By the time everyone was inside, the abortion supporters had lined two sides of the room, taken seats on a third, and were effectively blocking the room’s only exit.

“This is not about freedom of speech,” said the woman with the megaphone. “This is spreading harmful misinformation that is actively harming people with uteruses [sic] today. This is not freedom of speech.”

Sophia Tait, the president of the Life Society, asked those who did not want to listen to Akers’ talk to leave and promised that those who listened would be able to take part in a conversation at the end.

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TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: abortion; creepstate; deepstate; europeanunion; eussr; fourthreich; nicolasturgeon; policestate; righttolife; scotland; scotlandyet; singlepartystate; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 10/31/2022 6:05:13 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Demons go berzerk at the suggestion innocent human life is worthy of protection.


2 posted on 10/31/2022 6:06:38 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (/s)
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To: marshmallow

Stupid crap breaks out like this I’m pulling the closest fire alarm.


3 posted on 10/31/2022 6:09:56 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: marshmallow

Time to push back on the pro-baby killers and forbid them from speaking.


4 posted on 10/31/2022 6:11:21 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Skywise

They will be speechless in heaven


5 posted on 10/31/2022 6:12:59 PM PDT by xp38
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To: marshmallow

Old-school liberal: I might disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Modern liberal: Shut up, you! Shut up! You don’t agree with me 100%. So you must be silenced.

Hmmm. These modern liberals sound less like liberals, and more like fascists. It is a great tragedy that they do not see this.


6 posted on 10/31/2022 6:13:32 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Satan demands innocent blood.

Satanic groups use the abortion clinics to harvest victims.

Hence the absolute insane pursuit of baby killing.


7 posted on 10/31/2022 6:13:54 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: marshmallow

Pro Life groups need to BE READY to counter or push back on interrupters such as this Gal. It wasn’t always this way, so directly confrontational, but it is this way right now.
Don’t hold your breath expecting a Pro Abortionist to express any regret, shame or embarrassment in their behavior.


8 posted on 10/31/2022 6:14:27 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: marshmallow

Abortion is the modern day version of ‘child/human sacrifice’.


9 posted on 10/31/2022 6:20:00 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: marshmallow

UK parliament just okay’d a two year jail term for praying outside an abortion clinic.


10 posted on 10/31/2022 6:23:56 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Walk In The Rain So Nobody Can See My Tears)
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To: marshmallow

No police there to arrest the rioters?


11 posted on 10/31/2022 6:27:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Parmy

If someone GCed a video of a puppy late term abortion, pulling off the legs of a puppy who could feel pain the leftist would go ballistic.


12 posted on 10/31/2022 6:33:00 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: SkyDancer

Too bad it only applies to Christians.


13 posted on 10/31/2022 6:41:53 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: marshmallow
The spirit of antichrist is strong, there. a North American woman

USA or Canuckistan?

14 posted on 10/31/2022 6:44:06 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Parmy

Actual videos of abortion must be online 24/7 around the world, including partial birth abortion! This is Free Speech! If Abortion is So Good, then let’s Broadcast it! Let’s Celebrate it, Let’s make giant floats of bleeding, dismembered babies and parade them down Main Street USA! Proud and Out!!


15 posted on 10/31/2022 6:44:40 PM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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Yep. They’re so bloody proud of slaughtering their babies, let’s show the world how bloody the bloody “procedure” really is.


16 posted on 10/31/2022 6:45:57 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: marshmallow

The devil is in these people.

For real.


17 posted on 10/31/2022 7:05:13 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
“Stop this talk right now,” shouted a North American woman through a megaphone.

18 posted on 10/31/2022 7:07:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: marshmallow
If pro-life people were spreading lies, the abortion side would simply refute the lies.

If the pro-life people were mistaken, the abortion side would correct the mistakes.

Since the pro-life people are telling the truth, the only option the abortion side has is to shut them up.

19 posted on 10/31/2022 7:15:16 PM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: marshmallow

A Soros thugette.


20 posted on 10/31/2022 7:22:42 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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