THE East Melbourne abortion clinic where a security guard was murdered nine years ago has called for the Victorian government to create exclusion zones around all such clinics to prevent protesters from harassing patients and staff.

A psychologist who works at the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne, Dr Susie Allanson, said that since abortion was decriminalised in 2008, protesters from The Helpers of God's Precious Infants had continued to hound people as they entered and left her workplace on Wellington Parade.

A woman protests through prayer outside the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne. Credit:Justin McManus

She said clinic staff had called the police and Melbourne City Council almost daily to respond to complaints about the protesters, who thrust pamphlets at patients while telling them not to kill their babies.

''Sometimes patients are in tears when they come in and we've had a partner [of a patient] assault one of them once because he felt so threatened,'' Dr Allanson said.