Safe zone bid for abortions

GIVING women a “safe zone” around NSW abortion clinics, free from protesters and activists, is a matter of common decency, Nationals MP Trevor Kahn says.

Proposed legislation to provide a 150m exclusion zone around clinics and make it an offence to film staff and patients without consent was debated in Parliament yesterday.

Mr Kahn, a co-sponsor of the Bill along with Labor’s Penny Sharpe, said the debate transcended political alliances.

“This is not a matter of left versus right, it is a matter of common decency,” he said.