{"id":80190,"date":"2012-05-08T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/?p=80190"},"modified":"2012-05-08T09:26:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T09:26:40","slug":"meeting-pro-choice-public-meeting-16th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/?p=80190","title":{"rendered":"Meeting: Pro-Choice Public meeting 16th May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>7.00pm, Wednesday 16th May, Committee Room 10 in Parliament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Outraged by anti-choice abortion clinic protests? Concerned about the counselling plans?<\/p>\n<p>Then come to our Pro-Choice public meeting next week and have your say.<\/p>\n<p>We are seeing an alarming change of climate at the moment, as activists and politicians opposed to a woman\u2019s right to choose turn their attention to abortion providers and individual women seeking abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Already this year we have seen women harassed and filmed outside abortion clinics, the website of abortion provider BPAS hacked by an anti-choice fanatic, hundreds of clinics hit by spot checks in search of bad practice.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019re still awaiting the launch of the government\u2019s consultation on abortion counselling, which could see anti-choice groups handed NHS contracts to advise women on their pregnancy options.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately pro-choice supporters have been responding brilliantly: groups have sprung up to oppose clinic \u2018vigils\u2019 and harassment, counter-protests have drawn huge crowds, and just last Saturday loads of you held demos around the country to tell anti-choicers to \u2018SPUC Off!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Now we need to build on this upsurge in support and talk about what comes next. So we\u2019ve scheduled a Pro-Choice Public Meeting in Parliament on Wednesday 16th May.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers confirmed so far include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Diane Abbott MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health<br \/>\nZoe Williams, Guardian columnist and journalist<br \/>\nKat Banyard, founder of UK Feminista and author of The Equality Illusion<br \/>\nRichy Thompson, British Humanist Association, Education &amp; Faith Schools officer<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is free and open to all, but if you would like to attend please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:choice@abortionrights.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">choice@abortionrights.org.uk<\/a>and let them know you\u2019re coming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.00pm, Wednesday 16th May, Committee Room 10 in Parliament.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7.00pm, Wednesday 16th May, Committee Room 10 in Parliament. &nbsp; Outraged by anti-choice abortion clinic protests? Concerned about the counselling plans? 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