Multiple advocacy groups, charities and Christians gathered opposite the Houses of Parliament in London today to protest what could be the most significant change in UK abortion law since its legalisation in 1967.

Amendments are to be voted on in Parliament over the course of 15 May, which may “threaten to remove remaining legal protections from the unborn child at any stage of pregnancy”.

The day-long protest, which was organised at short notice and on a weekday, was nonetheless attended by hundreds – including figures such as Carla Lockhart, MP for Upper Bann in Northern Ireland, and Isabel Vaughan-Spruce whose arrest for silent prayer outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham was recently condemned by the United States government.