I was just curious.
Am I not allowed to ask a question?
Is this the sort of thing you would support (below) ? Because if so, it doesn't do your group any favours.
Seems like Pro-choicers are a rather aggressive bunch ?
They complain about women being 'harassed' outside abortion clinics then do the very same thing to other women - very strange?
4 March 2024
A group of pro-life students at the University of Manchester were left “terrified” as an out-of-control mob barricaded, spat on, threatened, and wished rape on them for their pro-life views.
Last Thursday evening, Manchester Pro-Life Society held a talk at the university only to be met by an organised pro-choice protest of up to 250 people. The pro-choice mob were so aggressive that a heavily pregnant pro-life 22-year-old woman had to be escorted home in a police van due to concerns for her safety.
The pro-life students who attempted to attend the talk were subjected to a barrage of verbal abuse and threats, with one student being spat on directly in the face.
While the students eventually managed to gain entry to the location of the talk after having to make their way through the mob and be permitted entry by an understaffed security detail, the pro-life students had eggs thrown at the windows, and had their event disrupted by members of the mob who managed to break into the venue through a fire escape and displayed a banner reading “Destroy Pro-Life Soc”.
Jacob, the Treasurer of Manchester Pro-Life Society, said that “if it wasn’t for the police and security, people would have definitely been physically hurt”.
“It made me feel intimidated and threatened. I was genuinely afraid that we would get hurt physically”.
“The crowd was extremely violent – spitting, throwing eggs, screaming and swearing”
The pregnant 22-year-old alumna of the university, Maisie, who had to be escorted home by the police said she thought she was in “real danger”.
“I felt especially vulnerable, being 7 months pregnant I was terrified they would hurt me and my baby girl”.
“Leaving the building was the most terrifying part, we were surrounded and people were screaming in our faces. I knew that it would only take one person to push into me for me to fall and be crushed. It was traumatic, I was shaking the whole time and I’m still really shaken up. I really thought our lives were in danger. The crowd was extremely violent – spitting, throwing eggs, screaming and swearing. There were around 30 of us, and 300 of them. Most of them had their faces covered”.
Another pro-life student, Rafa, who managed to attend the event, said that some pro-life students couldn’t gain entry into the event and were informed by police that they “can’t let any more people in. This is just too dangerous'”.
He described the situation of leaving the event and having to face the mob: “When we were leaving, the police told everyone we had to do this very quickly, very swift exit from the building”.
“I got spat in the face by a girl who was next to me as I was leaving. I really couldn’t see her face”.
“The police were using force to stop these people because they were being very violent. They were being very threatening, both physically and verbally”.
Inge, a first-year pro-life student at the university, added “Some students even said they hoped I would be raped”.
“It’s unthinkable that at a university – where we are meant to discuss and debate important ideas about life and society – my peers and I have been threatened, spat on, barricaded and wished death upon simply for our peaceful beliefs”.
The group protesting the pro-life event, Stop Manchester Pro-Life, also released a list of demands around the same time as the event including the demand that pro-life medical students “not be placed in abortion clinics, maternity wards and sexual health clinics due to conflict of interest”.