Pro-choice rally supports Melb clinic

People have rallied outside a Melbourne abortion clinic to protest against 'harassment' of patients. Source: AAP

PRO-CHOICE advocates have rallied outside a Melbourne abortion clinic, saying they're fighting back against pro-life activists who regularly harass the clinic's patients.

Around 100 members of the Melbourne Feminist Action group gathered outside the East Melbourne Fertility Control Clinic on Saturday to condemn the tactics of "intimidation and degradation" which its patients face almost daily, the group says.

Group spokeswoman Stephanie Convery said a variety of religious groups photograph and film women as they enter and exit the clinic, hurl abuse and hand out offensive literature.

"We need to give some support to the pro-choice movement in Melbourne and the women in the clinic," she said.

"Who wants to be bullied for making personal decisions about their own body, who wants to be told they don't know themselves, they don't know their own minds and they're making the wrong choice when they've thought long and hard about it."

A small crowd from pro-life group Youth for Life gathered opposite the rally, which was monitored by police.

Stephanie Ross, from Youth for Life, said members of her group regularly gathered outside the clinic but denied they harassed patients.

"We come to pray and witness, to be with the unborn in their last moments," she said.

The East Melbourne Fertility Control Clinic was opened in 1972 and was one of the first of its kind in Victoria.

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