The space immediately outside abortion clinics should not be a protest zone.

Women are being filmed, followed and intimidated on a daily basis by anti-abortion protesters standing directly outside clinics providing abortions in the UK.

But, clearly, women should be able to access legal healthcare free from intimidation and harassment.

And over the past few years there has been an escalation in this kind of anti-abortion activity outside clinics in the UK, with women attending pregnancy advice and abortion centres now regularly exposed to groups of anti-abortion activists standing directly outside.