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Graphic abortion images have been displayed outside a Lewisham medical centre.

Abortion activist group Abort 67 displayed graphic abortion images outside St John's Medical Centre in Lewisham.

Their main complaint is Marie Stopes, an abortion clinic, is being housed inside the centre which they feel promotes abortion as healthcare.

Abort 67 Founder and Director Andy Stephenson said: "We are there to simply expose abortion. We don't protest it as abortion protests itself when we hold up pictures of what it does.

"We aren't there to shame or attack women, we are there to empower them with information that abortion providers don't want them to have.

"Abortion is an act of violence that kills a small human being, that is not something that should not be promoted in a medical centre.

"We will be outside this medical centre until Marie Stopes leave."

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Abortion Rights campaign group Vice Chairwoman Kate Smurthwaite criticised Abort 67's way of protesting, saying that everyone had a right to protest but it should not be done at clinics.

She said: "When people are looking for medical treatment they have a right to privacy and a right to be treated with respect.

"These particular placards that Abort 67 are showing are deliberately looking to upset people and cause controversy.

"We've had evidence that many of the pictures they use are photoshopped to look extra gory and make the foetuses look extra human."

"We think the police should do something about it."

Marie Stopes Chief Nurse Jason Warriner said: "Protesters don't all work the same way.

"Some of them carry out respectful and peaceful protests at a distance and we respect their right to do so, but there are other groups who are using increasingly aggressive tactics towards women with seemingly little idea of the distress they are causing.

"Women are legally entitled to access our services, and it is entirely their choice - and no-one else's - if they do so.

"I want to reassure women that we have measures in place to ensure that they can safely access our services."