{"id":19403,"date":"2018-02-20T13:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=19403"},"modified":"2018-02-20T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T16:29:24","slug":"calls-for-ban-on-anti-abortion-vigil-near-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/calls-for-ban-on-anti-abortion-vigil-near-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for ban on anti-abortion vigil near clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A clinic in Cardiff has joined pro-choice petitioners calling on Cardiff Council to remove an anti-abortion vigil from outside its premises.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The charity British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) on St Mary Street has had members of anti-abortion group, 40 Days of Life near its entrance since the start of the Christian season of Lent on 14 February.<\/p>\n<p>BPAS supports women who are considering a termination.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement BPAS said: &#8220;Councils are the frontline to ensuring no woman is harassed in their area,&#8221; and called for a buffer zone to be put in place around clinics.<\/p>\n<p>More than 500 people have signed a petition calling on Cardiff Council to take action and &#8220;allow women to access its services free from interference, intimidation and judgement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lead petitioner, Tia Gibbon said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a bit insensitive to protest in a place where people are trying to access something which is legal and safe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d like the council to move them at least 100 metres away. They&#8217;re praying up at the window [of the clinic]. It&#8217;s still distressing the women and in my eyes that&#8217;s harassment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Labour councillor for Plasnewydd, Sue Lent said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we have got the powers to do anything about it, but we are looking how we could get additional powers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19459\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19459\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19459 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/28278186_10157156411638206_836304759_o-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"Pro-choice campaigners want the council to remove the anti-abortion vigil\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tia Gibbon is one of the people petitioning for Cardiff Council to ban the anti-abortion vigil<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A member of 40 Days of Life, Rhoslyn Thomas said the group was offering any woman considering a termination more options: &#8220;We\u2019re giving her a second choice. We are here offering advice and support. If you introduce a buffer zone what you\u2019re doing is cutting off the choice for women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group added it had complied with a request from the police to move further down the street from the clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clinic in Cardiff has joined pro-choice petitioners calling on Cardiff Council to remove an anti-abortion vigil from outside its premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[684,1473,129,683,1474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19403"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19548,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403\/revisions\/19548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}