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if you are talking about outside a public polling station like at yesterdays elections (where people go to vote), that would still be allowed in this country.

picketing a sexual health clinic at the private entrance would not.

TBH anyone hanging around such a place what wasn’t supposed to be there would be challenged and moved on as part of routine security procedures – especially with all the mobile phone cameras and miniature cameras around nowadays.

They may not even be religious campaigners but someone like a muck raking private detective or journalist who wanted to know who was using such services for other reasons.

these days a camera could be concealed in the frame of spectacles, behind a tiny pin badge, behind a buttonhole.. you can buy all this kit online for a few hundred quid or less – and our reporters / private investigators / stalkers (the boundaries are ill defined with some of them) in this country are ruthless and determined…

thats where the line is drawn.

Here you can protest in the main street to make your issue aware to the general public (even with banners etc), or you can as part of an authorised and checked youth group (which can either be secular or faith based) advise girls/women (and boys!) about sex education/reproductive matters

It is however not acceptable for people to enter the private space of a sexual health clinic (including any access roads/alleyways) unless they are patients or relatives/friends attending with a patient. The authorities are simply balancing the right of one group to express their views/beliefs against anothers right to privacy.

other than prayer in your church or at a place with sufficient distance from the clinic, in this country it is simply not seen as acceptable to try and make someone change their decision in this manner and extremely unlikely to work.

As I said most pregnant mums who can’t raise the child are already given advice on adoption etc, they are then given their free choice. The gravity of terminating a pregnancy is certainly not played down in this country, which already has a strong Christian church with close links to our government.

The only way you are allowed to give such advice in this country would be as a registered worker for something like a church group. There are already many groups in this country giving advice alongside or in conjunction with our existing public healthcare services.

What you do in the USA is your own business, but if you actually came to the UK and tried such a stunt as campaigning in the vicinity of any sexual health clinic, the authorities may well ask us to provide a copy of this thread to them in evidence.

Amy, if you really want someone to talk to who may be a bit more on your level try this dude

Garry W. Denke
Geologist / Geophysicist
Denke Oil Company
Wildcat Station, P.O. Box 866488
Plano, Texas 75086-6488

Tel: (972) 422-8268
Fax: (972) 422-7868
Cell: (972) 768-4631

He’s a very intelligent man in his fifties who knows a lot about rocks and things and was trying to put across some theory about Stonehenge here in England, but lost himself by not actually engaging in debate about it, seems to have got a bit obsessed about the whole thing – he even bombards our public officials with emails etc so of course his campaign gets ignored. Mentioned Jesus a few times in his texts.

I get the impression though deep down he’s a decent chap what took too much drugs in the 1970s and went a bit crazy – maybe it would do good for some people in the same area to chat to him?