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Protesters demand right to picket near abortion clinics

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Two anti-abortionists went to the High Court of Australia today to challenge a law which bans protests near abortion clinics.

They claim that the laws stifle their freedom of political communication, but others are saying that the laws protect women’s privacy and reproductive rights.

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Tuesday, October 9 2018

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Kenji Sato

Featured in storyPaul Hanrahan, Sydney coordinator for Helpers of God's Precious Infants and Executive Director of Family Life International and Life and Family Institute.Eva Cox, feminist writer, sociologist, Order of Australia, Adjunct Professor for the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & ResearchGeoff Holland, Law lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney and member of the NSW Bar Association and the Australian Bar Association

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