Northern Ireland: anti-abortion protesters across the country

Anti-abortion activists outside Parliament in Belfast on October 21, 2019, on the eve of the de facto decriminalization of abortion by UK MPs (illustrative image).

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Voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) has been legal for a year and a half in Northern Ireland, but still almost inaccessible.

The British Minister for Northern Ireland therefore called on the local government to implement the necessary services.

Since the start of the week, abortion opponents have been rallying in front of family planning centers.

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With our special

 correspondent

in Belfast, 

Émeline Vin

The only clue that the red brick building is home to one of the few centers that

 practice abortion

 in the region: the activists of the Precious Life association and their signs accusing doctors of murdering children.

The ten demonstrators are banned from speaking to the media.

John, from another association, agrees to explain his presence at the microphone: “

 We are here as a witness of Jesus Christ.

We did not vote for it, this law was imposed on us

.

The British government forced it on us.

We come to give a voice to those who do not have it, that is to say the babies in the wombs of the mothers.

 "

Passers-by lower their eyes to their height.

David, pro-choice, knows he is walking on eggshells: “ 

It's a very divisive question here

.

Religion is so embedded in the structure of everyday life.

These images of the anti-choice, so-called "pro-life" camp are becoming more and more visible and widespread.

 "

" Bullying "

Retouched images which equate ten week old embryos to near term fetuses intimidates the young Cormac: “

 If you have to go inside and you have to walk past them, that's not correct. 

They better do something else with their lives.

 "

The

activists of the right to abortion

demand ban demonstrations outside firms, considered harassment.

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