Too many women complain of being harassed on their way to abortion services. The group Back Off Scotland is fighting back
Until she was targeted, Lily Roberts thought protests outside abortion clinics only happened in the US.
Roberts was in her first year at university in Glasgow when she needed an abortion. She wasn’t yet familiar with the city when she made her way to Queen Elizabeth university hospital to take the second abortion pill at the maternity ward. “When I got there, there were 15 to 20 protesters with big placards calling me a murderer, saying: ‘Jesus loves you and your baby – we can help.’ I was petrified,” she says. “It was like crossing a picket line to get to an appointment.”
