Anti choice activist from controversial group CBR goes free after being arrested outside a clinic providing legal medical terminations

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Trying to use measured language so the thread doesn't get deleted. Christian Hacking [sic] was removed from outside a women's health clinic for violating an order put in place in an attempt to minimise ongoing harassment of women accessing the service. However the case against him failed due to procedural error which has given him what he clearly sees as a green light to appear on mainstream media talking about his right to pray and his distress at the thought of women making decisions about their own bodies. He's just been on radio 4 which was a chilling little segment. He's involved in CBR, a group that has been accused of harassing Stella Creasy, not least in part because of an anti choice campaign they've set up which is a hashtag with her name on it.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/man-praying-abortion-clinic-arrest-london-marie-stopes-ealing-a9181551.html

I can’t follow the legal argument for dropping this case because the law seems clear enough. But intimidating women away from safe, legal doctors and informed, objective counsellors seems like deeply unchristian behaviour in the first place.

I agree with you. I'm not a Christian myself but I'm pretty sure Jesus didn't harass women.

Obviously the entire incident is frustrating but the language being used around it is misleading, including in the headline. The independent reports that he was "arrested for praying" and indeed this is the line that he and his lawyers are taking. He wasn't and it's disingenuous to report it as so. He was arrested for harassing and intimidating women and for flouting a public order.

Yes totally agree with you. If he wants to change the law he can organise and hold meetings (well away from clinics) and write to his MP like everyone else has to do. It’s absolutely not about laws stopping people praying.

Exactly! There are plenty of ways to campaign against women accessing healthcare if that's your bag. But actively approaching them as they do so is not one of them.

this type of action makes it seem almost as though he fears that in a normal democratic debate kind of situation, he might not have very strong or convincing arguments to put forward (about how much his beliefs would to support and help women and children.)