Furious doctor confronts anti-abortion group protesting 'for 40 days' outside Scots hospital
22.02.2023 - 16:19
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A furious NHS consultant confronted anti-abortion protesters outside a maternity ward at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Pro-life campaigners from Texas based religious group 40 Days for Life set up a "prayer vigil" outside of the medical facility which offers abortion services, on Wednesday morning.
Dr Greg Irwin, who was on his lunch break, clashed with four campaigners and branded their demonstration "harassment" and told them they were upsetting patients.
The medic asked the group to leave the area as they held up banners reading ‘Don’t be coerced into abortion’ with images of foetuses.
He told the group: “You are upsetting my patients and you are upsetting my staff.
“What you are doing is very unkind and I would like you to stop what you are doing.
“I know you acting out in Christian faith, which says we should love one another.
“You are not being loving to these people. You are not showing them the respect that they deserve.
“You need to stop coming to my hospital, this is not fair.”
The campaigners ignored the NHS worker's pleas. The group refused to interact with the Record.
During their ‘vigil of prayer’ a motor slowed down and a driver heckled: “F**k off you bunch of lunatics”.
40 Days For Life plan to operate daily protests outside of medical facilities offering abortions until April 2.
Similar protests have taken place outside other medical centres which offer abortion services across Scotland.
Lucy Grieve, co-founder of Back Off Scotland, a group campaigning for harassment-free buffer zones around clinics, described the scenes as “unfair”.
She said: "These protests need to stop - they are causing untold levels of harm to patients and medical staff across Scotland. We have heard from hundreds of women