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Meet the pro-choice atheist skeptical about the UK's abortion ‘buffer zone’ law

Claire Fox is a pro-choice atheist. So why is she concerned by a nationwide abortion “buffer zone” mandate in the U.K.?

Luke Coppen
Feb 17, 2023
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Meet the pro-choice atheist skeptical about the UK's abortion ‘buffer zone’ law

If you’re a Mass-going Catholic, you probably feel disturbed by the idea of a law criminalizing peaceful prayer vigils outside abortion clinics.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, after all, says that “God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an in…

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