40 Days For Life start "Lent Vigil" Outside Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow
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”.