Leeds anti-abortion protesters sick of people 'intimidating' and laughing at them
Anti-abortion activists in Leeds have slammed passers-by who laugh at them for kneeling to pray outside a clinic, while they "harass" and preach at pregnant women visiting.
Parishioner Irene Toth, 67 and a care assistant, describes herself as a “newcomer” to picketing although she has been doing it intermittently over the years. She explained that their movement take turns in shift patterns from 7am until 7pm, in two hour slots. The devout Christian is not a mother herself and explains that when they’re on their knees, they are “praying for a change of heart” from the service users.
Patrick said: “If they are conflicted, to show them there’s another way. If you go back to the 1960s, there was legislation, you could be fined or imprisoned for having abortions.” Alice said her group has the clinic’s blessing to demonstrate across the road, to act as a “counter presence” to the anti-abortionists. She believes women’s health gets “wrongly stigmatised and politicised”, she’s there to support women who will be further “distressed” by the parishioners’ actions.
Jenny said: “Women should be able to choose what they do with their bodies. Just being in the world, we’re all affected. In the society we live in, people don’t talk about abortion.”
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