I was an anti-abortion teenager ready to protest outside clinics – but then...
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... something huge changed my mind
Now Ealing Council’s safe zone has been ruled legal, it brings me relief that people like my misguided 17-year-old self won’t be able to do what I nearly did. But we need to go further.
By Olivia Campbell
I was 17 when I was asked to protest outside an abortion clinic.
A friend who I attended the same all-girls Catholic convent school with wanted me to come with her to the Marie Stopes clinic in Ealing. As a way of protest, we were to stand holding hands, silently praying for all the innocent souls who’d never be born while hopefully persuading women to not commit such a ‘sin’. We were to be led by a boy who attended a certain all-boys school in West Brompton.
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