A NOTE FROM BACK OFF SCOTLAND, SEPTEMBER 2024:
After four years of campaigning, the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill was passed in the Scottish Parliament in June 2024 and the zones were implemented in September 2024.

We want to thank everyone so much for the support over the course of the campaign. We started as a tiny grassroots student movement in 2020, hoping to make Edinburgh's Chalmers Clinic a safer environment, and now we've managed to do that at every medical facility providing abortion care in Scotland.

None of this would be possible without the hundreds of patients and staff who came forward to share testimonies of the harassment and intimidation they faced at the gates of clinics and hospitals. We want to sincerely thank each and every one of you.

Whilst our work continues, we will be leaving this website up unchanged to remember the work the went on to achieve this change in the law and as a reflection of some of the testimonies that led to it.

Back Off Scotland continues to be completely volunteer-led, and the fight for improved access to abortion services in Scotland continues.