On 26 September, 40 Days for Life will begin “the largest and longest internationally coordinated pro-life mobilisation in history”. The organisation is US-based, but operates worldwide. Ostensibly it exists to organise 40 days of Christian prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil and community outreach. It just so happens this will be directly outside nine UK abortion providers including BPAS, Marie Stopes and NHS hospitals.
In our country it is clearly legal and permissible to organise a prayer vigil. It is also permissible to seek advice on a termination and to have one carried out, within the terms of the law. The question arises of what happens when the exercise of the first of these impinges on the second.
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