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EARLIER this year safe access zones—also known as abortion clinic “buffer zones”—were signed into law in England and Wales, protecting clinics and ensuring that those accessing or providing essential abortion care will soon be able to do so free from anti-choice harassment and intimidation.

Now the head of Christian Concern, the utterly deranged Andrea Minichiello Williams, above, who claims to be a barrister but isn’t, is warning America to be on guard against adopting similar zones.

In this report, she alleged that the extension of existing zones to all parts of England and Wales was an attempt to “snuff out” anti-abortion fanatics like Sid Cordle, leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance who was fined £100 in 2020 for breaching an exclusion zone at a Marie Stopes clinic in London.

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Cordle, above, was beside himself with fury after I posted a piece about his run-in with the law. After I wrote that he was “not is not the sharpest tool in the shed” he sent me a lengthy email in which he claimed he was far more intelligent than I, and would prove so if I were to debate him.

I basically told him to go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut, saying I had better things to do than engage with someone who was clearly wired to the moon.

‘An attack on free speech’

Williams said U.K. has always been a nation bent on championing free speech, freedom of conscience, and the freedom to protest, though recent regulations bringing buffer zones to the entirety of the nation have, in her view, impeded that legacy.

She called the process of etending the buffer zones “absolutely shocking,” adding:

It’s actually one of the things that … tears up one of our fundamental constitutional principles around freedom to speak, freedom to protest, freedom to assemble.

One of the things that’s been extraordinary in and around the clinics is … the abortion lobby has created this idea that peaceful campaigners, peaceful Christians, peaceful lovers of life are somehow a threat and intimidatory to the women that might enter these clinics. If there had been intimidation and harassment, then our criminal rules are already there to ensure that that wouldn’t happen.”

Williams also offered a warning to Americans watching what’s happening in the U.K., noting it has a “serious constitutional impact.” She’s hoping the U.S. doesn’t follow down the same path.

I would like to warn those of you in America to ensure that these … measures that get placed in and around certain buildings … in and around abortion clinics … take on a quasi-criminal force.

Williams said Christian Concern will continue to challenge buffer zones and “speak truth, speak life, [and] speak hope” to women in and around these clinics.

We must actually speak publicly, speak bravely, The women that are accessing the abortion also have the right to hear of hope, and life, and another way—and we must never yield in being brave, in speaking the hope that we have.

The new abortion buffer zone rules state that no one is allowed to protest for 150 meters (over 490 feet) “from any direction” of any clinic. Williams believes efforts to curb the presence of pro-life campaigners are rooted in an attempt by the abortion lobby to simply snuff out their presence.

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