Four years after the first buffer zone was set up in Ealing only two more have followed.
It is more than four years since the UK's first so-called buffer zone was set up outside an abortion clinic in the London borough of Ealing.Pro-choice campaigners had hoped buffer zones - which are legally-protected spaces - would soon become the norm.
Pro-choice campaigners say the current requirement for evidence to support the establishment of a buffer zone is too demanding. When she was 20 weeks pregnant, her "world was completely shattered" when doctors told her that her baby had little chance of survival because of a heart complication. Pro-choice campaigners then hoped protected spaces outside abortion services would become the norm - but only two more have been created, in Richmond in London and Manchester.
The team at this clinic has been calling for a buffer zone for more than five years and showed Newsnight nine folders, including more than 580 handwritten statements, they say demonstrate the negative impact gatherings have had.
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