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There is more notice of people killing animals than that of those of murdering innocent babies.
A woman attending a medical practice to undergo a medical procedure should not have political beliefs forced onto them. It is not the right situation for political campaigning and speech.
This isn’t about freedom of speech. This is about women’s legal rights to access medical treatment. It is about women being harassed & intimidated by groups of religious fundamentalists whose ideas about female bodily autonomy are rooted in misogyny.
LyleShelton Assaulting women outside abortion clinics is not freedom of expression...
Come on Oz, lets give those lethal abortionists, who use terminal violence upon helpless unborn children in the safe zone of wombs., a safe zone so no violence is enacted upon them.
It is sad that people are comfortable with killing babies in the womb. It is understandable that some people find this utterly incomprehensible.
LyleShelton Is it political speech or is it side walk counselling? They can't seem to make up their mind, they just call it whatever they need to, to suit their agenda at the time. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to harass people accessing a legal medical procedure.
Oh, so they're calling it 'political' speech, now? I would suggest that that is sophism. If they want to make political points, they are free to do so - outside the buffer zone. If they wish to hand out pamphlets, they can do that also - outside the buffer zone. It's the law.
Your right to a political opinion does not outweigh a woman's right to enter a clinic free of harassment.
LyleShelton No it doesn't. People can still have their free speech. They just have to move a certain distance away from the women they seek to harass with it. You people make me sick. You care more about the unborn than living children like those on Nauru. Selfish, egotistical, freaks.
I want to yell “fire” in the cinema. Damn laws curtail my point of view.
LyleShelton 1 - It is not a political issue. Therefore his argument is ridiculous. 2 - The 2nd half of his argument is that the law takes away an 'advantage' & that advantage should be restored? 3 - If these are the best arguments her lawyers can come up with then I am VERY happy & confident
you can have your point of view, just don't physically menace, abuse, manhandle, bully or traumatise vulnerable women while you have it. it's not difficult.
Only someone truly sick would want to abuse a person on their way into an intensely personal medical procedure. These people should seek help and not be enabled by dogmatic law and the media. Keep them away FFS!
LyleShelton This is of course nonsense. The right to protest is still there. Try protesting at parliament house, state or federal. That's where these laws were made.
LyleShelton If their motion is upheld whats to stop people exercising their right to political speech & disrupting churches every Sunday (Apart from the fact that non-christians are happy to let others go about their lives without interference)
Anyone who thinks they have the right to verbally abuse and harrass women who need medical assistance & who may be already traumatised is a garbage human
Lets make a deal, no protests stopping free speech in university's. Then they will stop protesting against abortions.
LyleShelton the foetus looks like it's having its morning nap. LOL.
LyleShelton Freedom of speech should be virtually unlimited, which includes the right to offend and to say unpalatable and unpleasant things. However. should it be limited?
What utter nonsense
I would hope that the antiabortion protesters would be right up there in the front row of protests involving children in detention on Nauru
LyleShelton Your 'right' shouldn't impinge on the rights of others.
No it safeguards staff and patients being hurt.
LyleShelton Are there people really so self centred as to think the women do this just to make a point? Have your idiotic debate in an appropriate place if you must but find a consenting opponent.
Rubbish. There are plenty of places where free speech is curtailed like the public gallery in Parliament House for example. Doesn't mean I don't have free speech. Just not there.
You can have your political speech but please do not harass women going to an abortion clinic. They are often sad enough as it is.
That isn’t what a 12 week old foetus looks like. The real thing is so much sadder. If you are going to put this type of imagery in your paper at least make it accurate.
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