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US anti-abortion activists plan to persuade women out of abortions in hospital car parks

US anti-abortion activists plan to persuade women out of abortions in hospital car parks

American anti-abortion activists are making major plans to try and talk women in Ireland out of having an abortion.

Today's Times Ireland reveals Sidewalk Advocates for Life will target rape victims and couples who have gone through fatal foetal abnormalities.

Katie O'Neill from the Times Ireland Edition said the group has plans to approach them at hospital car parks.

Ms O'Neill said: "In America, they already have exclusion zones in certain locations which ban protests within a certain radius of the hospital, so sometimes that's where they have to get them is within the car park, they won't be able to get them on their way into the clinic.

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"They are already trying to get around exclusion zones in Ireland by using this tactic, so they will be wearing hi-vis jackets and stopping every car that they see on their way in.

"They are hoping that, as per their training material, they say that they hope that some people will mistake them for parking attendants on their way in."

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