Protesters have used multicoloured chalk to share pro-choice messages on Glasgow’s Buchanan Street after a rally on Sunday.
A powerful photograph shared on Twitter this morning shows the various messages of support, all relating to the slogan “My body, my rights”.
The protest was held on Sunday at 12PM and took place particularly in response to new abortion laws in US States such as Alabama, which have sparked international reaction.
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New legislation in Alabama has brought about a near-total ban on abortions. The new laws, which come into effect in six months, stop women from having abortions in all cases, including rape victims, unless there is a serious health risk.
The event’s Facebook description explains that the messages written in the city centre are there for women in the UK as well as those abroad.
It reads: “New abortion laws in several US States, including Alabama, have sparked global condemnation.
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“But there are also women living in the UK, in 2019, who cannot access abortion care legally in their own country.
“Women in Northern Ireland still have no access to legal abortion services without travelling, and moreover any woman living in any area of the UK risks life in prison if she ends a pregnancy at any gestation without the permission of two doctors, under a law dating from 1861.
“Medical professionals also risk imprisonment for performing a safe, consensual abortion if the procedure is not approved by two doctors.”
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The words written across the steps in front of the Royal Concert Hall encapsulate these messages of support and defiance.
Slogans include: ‘my womb, my choice’; ‘we see you Alabama’ as well as ‘we see you Northern Ireland.’
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