Melbourne city council cleared of failing to protect women from anti-abortion protesters

Court says council did not fail in its duty, or break the law, by allowing women to be harassed by protesters outside East Melbourne fertility clinic

Melbourne city council did not fail in its duty of care or breach Victorian law by allowing anti-abortion protesters to harass women attending the East Melbourne fertility clinic, a court has ruled.

In June Melbourne’s supreme court heard that for the past two decades women attending the clinic for medical treatment had been targeted by protesters from the group Helpers of God’s Precious Infants.

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