Watch this pregnant woman blast anti-abortion activists for ‘making people feel guilty’

It’s got to be the smackdown of the week, if not the year.

This heavily pregnant woman in London was filmed blasting a group of anti-abortion protesters for “making people feel guilty.”

In the video shot by journalist Sunny Hundal, the woman goes for the jugular of members of the anti-abortion group Abort67, who have been campaigning outside a medical clinic offering abortion services in South London.

Standing in front of a gruesome banner depicting a 10-week-old fetus, the woman slams the activists for “judging and then filming” women entering the clinic without knowing their reasons for seeking an abortion.  

“You don’t know why people are doing what they’re doing," said the woman, who hasn’t been identified.

“But you want to be out here judging and then filming.

“Many people have been abused, you don’t know what their reasons [are].

“You’re standing out here making people feel guilty. I think this is wrong on so many levels.”

The woman, who lambasted the activists for nearly two minutes, raised the case of a newborn baby found in a garbage can and suggested such tragedies wouldn’t happen if women weren’t scared away from clinics such as the one in Southwark, a borough of London.

Her gutsy confrontation won praise on social media. 

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Hundal, who writes a weekly column for the Labour Party grassroots website Labour List, said the medical clinic was considering withdrawing abortion services following the campaign by Abort67, whose slogan is “Seeing it is the first step to changing it.”

“Groups such as Abort67 should be allowed to protest. But they shouldn’t be allowed to intimidate and harass women who are considering an abortion,” Hundal wrote last month.

“Due to their activities an important health service for women is now on the verge of being withdrawn.”

There is currently no law in the UK stopping pro-life campaigners from staging protests on the doorsteps of abortion clinics, but there are calls for that to change.  

UK law allows abortions to be carried out within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, but there are exceptions that allow for terminations after that period, such as if the life of the mother is in danger.

Abort67 director Andrew Stephenson defended the group's campaigning methods, which include showing graphic images of fetuses and using GoPro cameras to film women entering and leaving abortion clinics.

"If abortion is just the removal of a blob of tissue then why would a woman feel uncomfortable about seeing it?" Stephenson was quoted as saying.

"The fact that seeing abortion actually makes the whole of society feel guilty is the best evidence that abortion is far worse than abortion lobby has led us to believe.

"It is perverse beyond belief when the viewers' response to that is, 'how dare you show it to me' rather than, 'how dare abortionists do it to an unborn child.'"

Watch the woman take on the anti-abortion activists here. 

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