- Conference
- 2019 National Women's Conference
- Date
- 24 October 2018
- Decision
- Carried
This conference notes
1)UNISON’s position in recognising a women’s right to choose.
2)The decision to terminate a pregnancy is a difficult one for a woman.
3)That women often face protests outside clinics and hospitals when seeking an abortion.
Furthermore this conference notes that:
Despite the Abortion Clinic Review undertaken by the Home Office identifying at least 36 anti-abortion demos in 2017 the home secretary Sajjad Javid decided that abortion clinic buffer zones were unnecessary.
This conference welcomes the decision of Ealing Borough Council to introduce a 100 metre buffer zone against protestors outside a Marie Stopes Clinic in its area.
This conference asks the National Women’s Committee to work with the NEC and Labour Link to continue to campaign for abortion clinic buffer zones.