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Buffer zones: protecting women or an overreach against free speech? Lois McLatchie Miller vs Jan MacVarish hosted by Andy Kind

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Should silent prayer be banned? This week on Unbelievable we’re touching on a sensitive and deeply complex issue that affects both women and men— abortion. Specifically, we’ll be discussing buffer zones outside abortion clinics, which have sparked intense debate around the world, including in the UK, where new legislation comes into effect on October 31, 2024. These zones will make it illegal to influence someone’s decision to access abortion services, including activities like prayer, within a 150-meter radius of clinics.  This conversation resonates not only in the UK but also in the US, where similar debates have unfolded. How can we balance the safety and privacy of women when they are at their most vulnerable against preserving individual freedoms of speech and religious expression.  Join Andy Kind and his two thoughtful guests who have wrestled with these matters extensively: Jan MacVarish, a pro-choice advocate supporting buffer zones, and Lois McLatchie Miller, a pro-life defender and senior legal communications officer for ADF, who advocates for religious freedom and free speech, particularly in cases like silent prayer outside clinics.  SOCIAL LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/unbelievablefe Facebook: / https://facebook.com/premierunbelievable Instagram: / https://instagram.com/premierunbelievable Tik Tok: / https://tiktok.com/@premier.unbelievable 👉 Get bonus content, updates, fascinating articles, and early access to new episodes—absolutely free! Join now at www.premierunbelievable.com 🎉📢 • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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On Saturday the 9th of November the Premier family are coming together to celebrate the life of Peter Kerridge

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My view is that the privacy of patients accessing legally agreed medical care, in particular that which relates to some of the most fundamental questions that a person can face, which is,

0:55.0

am I going to have this baby now?

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That's an incredibly deep question for an individual to place,

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and I don't think that anybody else outside of that person

1:06.4

and the relationships that they have with the people immediately involved actually has any kind of

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close right to interfere.

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Prolifers for many years have had a good practice of offering

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charitable leaflets about support services available to women who might like to

1:22.5

continuing their pregnancy if they know about other options available

1:26.4

of economic support, of spiritual, emotional, advice, etc.

1:31.6

I have come to accept the means for these very, very minimal exclusion

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zones around clinics because abortion clinics in Britain are peculiarly exposed.

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Unfortunately, where we've seen buffer zones come in already under local authority measures,

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