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General Category => Health/Education => Life News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on December 20, 2022, 11:09:19 pm
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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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Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:10
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THOUGHTCRIME!
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It's the UK, where every silent thought is a hate crime.
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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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@mystery-ak
WTH?????
Since WHEN has praying on a public street been illegal?
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@LMAO
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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Praying silently - verboten.
Thinking to herself, "Gee, I'd like to get into that elementary school across the street and molest some children" - okay.