If your intention as a protester was to change the mind of the person on the way to accessing healthcare, I have some news: it doesn't work. We know that sidewalk counselling serves only to traumatise already vulnerable people whose medical and social history can't be known and shouldn't be known by a bystander. As for the people who claim to be peaceful protesters and who would disagree that fear and intimidation experienced by women and healthcare providers is a reality, I would refer them, perhaps, to incidents such as that experienced by the Hon James Shaw, who was assaulted violently on the street by someone who had strong feelings about abortion care provision. In 2000, in Christchurch, a man was found to have tunnelled underneath the abortion clinic at Lyndhurst with the intent of burning it down. Anonymous threats have been made to people who work at Southland clinic saying people who work at the clinic are legitimate targets. And the rangatahi who were actually mounting a counter-protest to the protests that you mentioned, Nicola Grigg, at Hagley Park were threatened with death only last week. I quote: "I'm going to bring a gun and blow you up." It's not OK. 