40 Days For Life start "Lent Vigil" Outside Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow
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40 Days For Life start "Lent Vigil" Outside Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow
Patients face 40 days and nights "prayer vigil" outside a Glasgow hospital as anti abortion group arrive for the duration of Lent.
40 Days For Life, potentially face a buffer zone ban around hospitals and clinics if a bill is passed in the Scottish parliament.
Pro-choice campaigners have hit out against the “intimidation” and “harassment” women seeking to access abortions in Glasgow are set to face over the next month.
Today, Wednesday, a consultant paediatric radiologist urged the anti-abortion protesters to move along from the hospital.
Dr Greg Irwin, who has been a vocal advocate for buffer zones, said: “We have got protesters outside the hospital for the next 40 days, all through Lent, 12 hours a day, causing harassment and intimidation of women seeking abortion healthcare.
"It is an incredibly unkind, unfriendly thing to be doing.
The doctor stated that the group can have a “prayer vigil anywhere they like” but criticised the group for staging the campaign as the “gates of the hospital”.
Patients face 40 days and nights "prayer vigil" outside a Glasgow hospital as anti abortion group arrive for the duration of Lent.
40 Days For Life, potentially face a buffer zone ban around hospitals and clinics if a bill is passed in the Scottish parliament.
Pro-choice campaigners have hit out against the “intimidation” and “harassment” women seeking to access abortions in Glasgow are set to face over the next month.
Today, Wednesday, a consultant paediatric radiologist urged the anti-abortion protesters to move along from the hospital.
Dr Greg Irwin, who has been a vocal advocate for buffer zones, said: “We have got protesters outside the hospital for the next 40 days, all through Lent, 12 hours a day, causing harassment and intimidation of women seeking abortion healthcare.
"It is an incredibly unkind, unfriendly thing to be doing.
The doctor stated that the group can have a “prayer vigil anywhere they like” but criticised the group for staging the campaign as the “gates of the hospital”.