A Victorian anti-abortion protester who challenged police over safe access zones around clinics has lost her appeal bid.
Kathleen Clubb, a mother of 13, was convicted of breaching the access zones law in August 2016.
She was fined $5000 after handing a pamphlet to a couple outside an East Melbourne clinic.
The Victorian Supreme Court rejected her appeal on Wednesday.
It came after another failed appeal to the country's highest court in April last year.
The anti-abortion protester claimed the magistrate who convicted her "erred in law".
Lawyers for Clubb argued the magistrate could not claim on the evidence she "communicated in relation to abortion".
However, Supreme Court Justice Maree Kennedy disagreed.
"The appellant (Clubb) has chosen to enter the safe access zone - invading the personal space of an unknown couple - armed with material which related to abortion," Justice Kennedy wrote in her reasons.
This was despite Clubb attending meetings with police about the changes including how the safe zones worked in May 2016.
"There was an approach to a young couple, unknown to the appellant, raising an issue of a highly personal nature as they were making their way into an abortion clinic in circumstances where they were likely to already be feeling distressed or highly vulnerable," Justice Kennedy wrote.
"I consider that there was a substantial chance of causing a significant emotional reaction or psychological response."
Australian Associated Press
