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Pro-life activist arrested for praying silently near an abortion facility
« on: December 20, 2022, 11:09:19 pm »
 December 20, 2022 5:30pm EST
Pro-life activist arrested for praying silently near an abortion facility
A pro-life charity volunteer was arrested by police after she told them she 'might' have been praying near a closed abortion facility
By Kendall Tietz | Fox News

A charity volunteer was arrested after she told police she "might" be praying silently when they asked why she was standing on a public street near an abortion facility, according to a report from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) UK. 

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, the Director of the UK March for Life, was standing near the BPAS Robert Clinic in Kings Norton, Birmingham in an area ADF UK called a "censorship zone," when police approached her after an onlooker complained she might be praying outside the abortion facility the report said. Birmingham's authorities established a buffer zone around abortion clinics, which makes it illegal for an individual to engage in any act or attempted act of approval or disapproval as it relates to abortion and includes "verbal or written means" like "prayer or counseling."

"It’s abhorrently wrong that I was searched, arrested, interrogated by police and charged simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind," Vaughan-Spruce said following her arrest. "I was exercising my freedom of thought, my freedom of religion, inside the privacy of my own mind. Nobody should be criminalised for thinking and for praying, in a public space in the UK."

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Re: Pro-life activist arrested for praying silently near an abortion facility
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2022, 11:13:19 pm »
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Re: Pro-life activist arrested for praying silently near an abortion facility
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2022, 12:39:30 pm »
THOUGHTCRIME!

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Re: Pro-life activist arrested for praying silently near an abortion facility
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2022, 12:46:07 pm »
It's the UK, where every silent thought is a hate crime.
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Re: Pro-life activist arrested for praying silently near an abortion facility
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2022, 03:04:04 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on December 21, 2022, 12:46:07 pm
It's the UK, where every silent thought is a hate crime.

We shake our heads when we read stories like these, but we are the only country that has a First Amendment

Sure they have freedom of speech in places like Canada and Europe as long as your speech and thoughts are with the government allows
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Re: Pro-life activist arrested for praying silently near an abortion facility
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2022, 06:03:16 am »
@mystery-ak

WTH?????

Since WHEN has praying on a public street been illegal?
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Re: Pro-life activist arrested for praying silently near an abortion facility
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2022, 06:06:07 am »
Quote from: LMAO on December 21, 2022, 03:04:04 pm

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We shake our heads when we read stories like these, but we are the only country that has a First Amendment

Really?  I am surprised to hear this.

 
 
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Re: Pro-life activist arrested for praying silently near an abortion facility
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2022, 12:33:37 pm »
Praying silently - verboten.

Thinking to herself, "Gee, I'd like to get into that elementary school across the street and molest some children" - okay.
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