Pregnant Woman Tongue-Lashes Anti-Abortion Activists Outside London Clinic [Video]


A video showing a heavily pregnant woman tongue-lashing anti-abortion activists demonstrating outside a London abortion clinic has gone viral online. The incident was caught on video and posted to YouTube on Wednesday by journalist Sunny Hundal, who was filming the protesters.

The pregnant woman arrived at the scene of a demonstration by members of the UK-based anti-abortion group Abort67 as a worker at the abortion clinic run by the British Pregnancy Advise Service at the Blackfriars Medical Practice in Southwark, London was asking the protesters to stop violating the privacy of women coming in and going out of the clinic by filming them.

However, the anti-abortion protesters denied filming women visiting the clinic, claiming that they were using their cameras to film themselves during protest as a way of providing evidence against widespread accusations that they use bullying tactics in their campaign.

The woman, who has not been identified, is seen in the video approaching as the anti-abortion activists argued with the worker.

The pregnant woman’s intervention begins around 1:13 in the video. The video shows her criticizing members of the anti-abortion group, accusing them of harassing women going into the abortion clinic.

“You are wrong in what you are doing. You don’t know why people are doing what they’re doing, but you want to be out here judging and then filming.”

One of the female protesters attempted to respond to the criticism, saying that she also had an abortion in the past. But the woman immediately pointed out her hypocrisy, arguing that just as the anti-abortion activist exercised her choice in the past, she should allow other women a right to their choice.

“You had an abortion but because you’re not happy with what you’re doing, you’re standing out here making other people feel guilty. When you had an abortion that was your choice.”

She gave the example of a widely reported incident in the news media in which a newborn was found abandoned dead in a bin in North Yorkshire.

“Maybe if their mum didn’t feel that way because of people like you, that baby wouldn’t have died. You think it’s better for them to get rid of it at ten weeks (in the womb) or to actually go through with the birth and then kill the child?”

She challenged the protesters, saying that they should have taken the time to familiarize themselves with the neighborhood before coming out to protest. She told them that the office of the Kids Company UK, a charity providing support to inner-city children, and where the woman works, was nearby.

She explained that many of the young people they see at Kids Company were victims of sexual abuse and rape.

The protesters appeared overwhelmed by the pregnant lady’s argument and were unable to respond as she walked away.

According to Hundal, anti-abortion activists are able to harass and intimidate women visiting abortion clinics because UK law does not protect clinics and the women using their services from having their privacy violated in the manner some anti-abortion activists do.

Pro-choice activists have often complained about what they see as the intrusive and bullying methods adopted by pro-life campaigners, such as blocking the entrances to clinics, filming women and showing them graphic images of fetuses.

The Huffington Post notes that US pro-life activists use similar tactics, which many believe infringes on the right of women to go into abortion clinics without fear of intimidation.

Since the footage was uploaded to YouTube, it has received nearly 2 million views. Thousands have taken to social media to express approval of the woman’s action. Many Reddit users claimed that the pregnant woman’s confrontation with the anti-abortion activists inspired them to donate to the Kid’s Company.

But Abort67 has reacted to the video in a statement to UK’s Daily Mail and BuzzFeed, arguing, “Pro-aborts like Sunny can’t defend killing small human beings so she tries (in vain) to shame our volunteers for trying to defend the unborn child.”

[Image: Wikimedia Commons]

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