A “screaming pro-abortion mob” forced local police to supply an escort to a pro-life speaker on the University of Manchester who needed to take transport to a special location since it was “not protected” to go on to her accommodation.
For the second time this 12 months, police needed to be called to guard pro-life students from a barrage of abuse and physical intimidation by pro-abortion student protesters on the university after Madeline Page, CEO of the Alliance of Pro-life Students (APS), delivered a chat titled “Grill the pro-lifer”.
As Madeline left the talk with a police escort, a big mob of scholars followed her down the road screaming abuse at her, forcing her to vary her taxi pick-up since it was “too dangerous”. The CEO of APS was not capable of chill out even after the event as earlier today, after the talk last night, she was accosted by a pro-choice student whose face was covered with a shawl and who shouted at her outside a university constructing. After calming the coed down, Madeline was capable of walk away.
A concerted “hate campaign”
Discussing the night before, Madeline said, “This was a possibility for any student, whatever they consider abortion, to ask questions and for me to clarify why I’m pro-life. I gave quarter-hour of input followed by an hour of debate. Before the event even began though, I knew there have been going to be problems.”
She explained that there had been a concerted “hate campaign” about her before she had even arrived on the university, with one social media user describing her as a “f**king n*b head”.
The talk was scheduled for 7pm however the university had organised for the constructing to be cleared and staff advised to vacate the constructing two hours beforehand for his or her safety.
“By the time I arrived, there was already a bunch of protesters shouting and chanting. As soon as they saw me, I had numerous them screaming ‘f**k you’ and calling me a ‘c**t’. Police needed to intervene to force the protesters to let me contained in the constructing.”
While there was numerous noise from outside the constructing, a student described the atmosphere inside as “respectful”, even while numerous pro-choice students asked questions.
However, when the event ended, police needed to escort Madeline and those that attended the talk out of the back of the constructing before the mob could gather.
“The police were really helpful however the mob still did their best to intimidate those present,” Madeline said. “I used to be separated from the remaining of the group and swarmed by students hurling verbal abuse. The police needed to form a physical barrier between the mob and me for my protection.
“I had to vary my pick-up location since the police advised that the initial one was not protected and it also wouldn’t have been protected to go on to my hotel.
“I ultimately found a corner location where the police could stop the pro-abortion students getting any closer to me. They left shortly afterwards since the mob realised this was making them look really bad.”
Threatened with rape
Inge, a first-year student at Manchester University, said this was almost as bad because the last time protesters had threatened and abused her and pro-life students on the university.
“It’s so concerning that they’ve whipped themselves up into such a frenzy that they will not even take heed to what their opposition has to say. They should have so little confidence in their very own arguments that they must scream down ours.”
At the top of February, the University of Manchester student pro-life group needed to face an identical ordeal and were left “terrified” as they faced a barrage of spit, verbal abuse and threats – including rape threats – from a pro-choice crowd of as much as 250 people as they tried to carry a pro-life talk.
On that occasion, numerous pro-life students were spat on, considered one of the feminine committee members received a rape threat, while a heavily pregnant pro-life 22-year-old woman needed to be escorted home in a police van on account of concerns for her safety. She said, “I actually thought our lives were at risk.”
Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said, “The pro-choice protesters on the University of Manchester have once more disgraced themselves and their university. It is astounding that the university apparently does so little within the face of the physical intimidation and vile verbal abuse that the pro-life students, and Madeline particularly, needed to face.
“This was a possibility for them to ‘grill the pro-lifer’, to ask her difficult questions and make her justify the pro-life position on abortion. They selected to squander that chance and hurl abuse as an alternative. The University of Manchester must make suitable provision to be sure that this doesn’t occur again.”
