A Belfast businesswoman is calling on the council to stop anti-abortion groups displaying graphic images of foetuses in the city centre.
Barbara Whearty was speaking after charges against her of unlawfully assaulting two members of the Youth for Life wing of Precious Life were dismissed.
She said women like her, who had suffered miscarriages, shouldn t have to encounter such traumatic, graphic images on the streets. She said that she had received support from Alliance, Green, and People Before Profit councillors. I absolutely believe in the right to protest. I don t think anybody should be persecuted or punished. But women who have suffered miscarriages, and their families, have a right to be protected from having to view such upsetting images in our city centre, she said. All groups, whatever they are campaigning on, should have to adhere to a certain code before they are allowed to set up stalls on streets.
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