Victorian abortion clinics ask for exclusion zones

I fully support anyone's right to protest but I think the exclusion zone is an excellent idea.

As a local resident of East Melbourne, I have - on numerous occasions - been subject to harassment, and all I am doing is walking to my local fruiterer, cafe or post office. One one occasion, my partner parked on the street to go into the neighbouring post office. As I hopped out of the car, I had literature thrust into my face and was pleaded to 'save my baby'. I found it appalling that I should be judged in this manner. I called my local council to report the incident but was advised little could be done.

This incident is not to mention the numerous times when protesters insist I look at their their plastic foetuses.

I don't mind if they protest but any claim that they do not harass people is simply untrue. This doesn't happen all the time I walk pass them but then again - I am only a resident walking by.

I would suggest to Dr Susie Allanson that she is being less than honest when she claims that women come into her abortion clinic very distressed solely because of "a handful of picketers".

Women comimg in to have their babies aborted are far more likely to be experiencing deep distress because of the lethal treatment your clinic is about to inflict on the tiny new human life being protected and nurtured in her womb.