'A woman's decision whether or not to abort her pregnancy is not a political decision.'
Two anti-abortion campaigners convicted for breaching safe-access zones outside abortion clinics have lost their High Court appeal.Lawyers for Victorian woman Kathy Clubb and Queensland man Graham Preston argued the zones, which were established to protect patients and staff from harassment and intimidation, infringed on their right to freedom of political communication.
"A woman's decision whether or not to abort her pregnancy is not a political decision," Justice Geoffrey Nettle wrote. "For the same reason, a communication directed to persuading a woman as to whether or not to abort her pregnancy is not a political communication but a communication concerning an entirely personal matter."
"Those wishing to say what they want about abortions have an unimpeded ability to do so outside the radius of the safe access zones," they wrote.
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