Banning pro-life protests outside abortion clinics is lawful, according to a ruling by the UK Supreme Court.
The court was asked to decide whether legislation introduced in Northern Ireland, which includes a ban on such protests, breached human rights.
The court decided that so-called abortion buffer zones do not ‘disproportionately interfere’ with protesters’ rights.
Pro-life groups were disappointed by the ruling, saying that the new law threatens peaceful demonstrators with arrests, fines, and imprisonment.
