Abortion Images Banned After Pro-Life Campaign in Town Square

Case information
Incident date
Country
United Kingdom
Place
London
Categories
  • Government Restrictions
Attack Against
  • Faith
  • Morals
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Political
  • Radical Left
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Exclusion (of individuals or ideas)
  • Freedom of Expression
Place of Incident
  • Public Street
Bias Indicators
  • Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
  • Time/Place/Location
Reported to Police
  • Unknown
Response of Local Authorities
  • Unknown
Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident.Image credit: Carlo Navarro on Unsplash

On 6th May, a judge ruled that the display of abortion images was a visual equivalent of "shouting into a person's face", and was, therefore, right to ban it. The pro-life organizer Mr. Hacking was given a community protection notice forbidding him the display of large photos of a fetus. The reasons were that people felt distressed and emotionally, mentally or even physically harmed through the images of the aborted fetus. Mr. Hacking said, that the real victim isn't the viewer who is negatively impacted by the visualization, but rather the unborn child.

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