A STUDENT organisation is due to stage a protest after it emerged a pro-life group is hosting an “interactive training day” on campus at the University of Glasgow.

According to event organisers the event will equip attendees to become “confident, educated pro-lifers” with the aim of making “abortion unthinkable one conversation at a time”, reports our sister title The Herald.

However, the University Students for Choice Society says it has serious concerns about the aims of the event, as well as its content and results.

The event is to be hosted by March 4 Life UK on Saturday, May 13 with tickets costing £25 and will be met with counter-protests from students. 

The organisation was officially formed in the UK in 2012 but there has been a prominent US group since 1974. The UK organisation is run by Isabel Vaughen Spruce, who late last year was arrested for breaching a buffer zone. 

The event is to be held at the University of Glasgow Catholic Chaplaincy, in Turnbull Hall. Whilst it is property of the Diocese of Glasgow and not the University of Glasgow the hall sits prominently on the Gilmore Hill campus and is run in conjunction with the University Catholic society.

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The organisers promise a “series of educational sessions aimed at equipping participants to deal with real-life scenarios” as well as “top speakers who will inform you to clarify your own pro-life beliefs so you become more articulate and effective in communication”. The event is also being promoted by Bishop Keenan of Paisley Diocese on TikTok.

The University Students for Choice Society is set to hold a protest.

A spokesperson for the society has said: “We have serious concerns about the aims of the event, as well as its content and results. The language used by the organisers is very polarising and, while they talk about having meaningful discussions on abortion, in reality, this has been translated into harassment and shaming."

"Our campus cannot be a safe space free from misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and harassment in general if we allow such events to take place. At Glasgow Students for Choice we strongly believe abortion is healthcare and we will fight to protect our rights, this is why we are organising a peaceful protest on the day of the event." 

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The event comes as our sister title The Herald revealed that the Scottish Government has scrapped the working group on buffer zones, with Scotland being the only constituent nation in the UK to not pass buffer zone legislation the Government has been accused of further “dither” and “delay”. 

The University of Glasgow has declined to comment.