A council in London has approved an exclusion zone around an abortion clinic, making it the second local authority in the UK to take action to prevent pro-life activities.
A full meeting of Richmond Borough Council on March 5, approved a decision made by its regulatory committee a month earlier to make it a crime to attempt any form of interaction with staff or visitors to a centre run by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in the Twickenham section of London.
The policy comes less than a year after Ealing Council, also a London local authority, used a Public Spaces Protection Order to prevent pro-life activists from approaching people or praying within 200 meters of a Marie Stopes clinic.
