PROTESTS AS NORTH IRELAND'S FIRST ABORTION CLINIC OPENS

The first ever private abortion clinic in North Ireland opened today and over 200 pro-life campaigners carrying placards saying "Life is precious" and showing photographs of fetuses were gathered outside the privately run Marie Stopes clinic in central Belfast. 

The Marie Stopes family planning centre will offer the abortion pill to women who are less than nine weeks pregnant, but only if doctors determine they are at risk of death or long-term health damage from their pregnancy. That is the law in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, where abortion is otherwise illegal and extremely difficult to get an abortion. Between 2006 and 2012, just 262 terminations were carried out in the province, which is home to 1.8 million people.
 

Police have warned the media to avoid photographing or filming the faces of any clients or staff entering the clinic, which is housed in a nondescript building and to do otherwise would be a breach of British law and the European Convention on Human Rights

Biko, what is their problem?  Only those at risk of death or long-term health damage are allowed to get an abortion. So are they saying mothers should die instead of terminating a life-threatening pregnancy? Isn't that a personal decision and not a communal one?