Ealing Council’s cabinet voted unanimously in favour of allowing a Public Spaces Protection Order to create a protest-free safe zone outside a Marie Stopes clinic in the west London borough.
The council has spent months exploring a range of options on how to prevent “intimidation, harassment and distress” for women using the Marie Stopes clinic on Mattock Lane following a petition set up by local women.
Pro-choice demonstrators, including the group SisterSupporter, cheered and applauded as the cabinet members voted the proposal through.
But the meeting almost had to be adjourned when two distressed women walked up to the cabinet members, urging them to reconsider.
“I cannot give up on this,” one of the women told the members.
“Please go back and review what you have just done here.”
Anna Veglio-White, co-founder of SisterSupporter, said she was “completely elated” and “overjoyed that the council recognises there is a huge imbalance of human rights at Mattock Lane and they’ve taken the necessary steps to address that”.
“It’s pretty incredible, we just hope we see the effect of this all over the country,” she added.
John Hansen-Brevetti, clinical operations manager at the clinic, said women had been told the ghost of their foetus would haunt them, had been told “mummy mummy don’t kill me”, had holy water thrown on them and rosary beads thrust at them.
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