Governments Harassing Pro-Life Groups, Abortion Advocates Becoming More Radical

Anoteworthy case out of Great Britain could provide Americans with an object lesson from our mother country on the radicalization of modern abortion advocates. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a Christian woman who was arrested twice for silently praying outside an abortion facility, has been awarded £13,000 and an apology from the West Midlands Police.

Alliance Defending Freedom UK supported Vaughan-Spruce’s legal defense which resulted in exoneration from the criminal charges. She then issued a claim against West Midlands Police for wrongful arrests and false imprisonments, assault and battery concerning an intrusive search of her person, and a breach of her human rights in 2022 and 2023. Vaughan-Spruce said in a statement: “Silent prayer is not a crime. Nobody should be arrested merely for the thoughts they have in their heads — yet this happened to me twice at the hands of the West Midlands Police, who explicitly told me that ‘prayer is an offence’.”

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Anoteworthy case out of Great Britain could provide Americans with an object lesson from our mother country on the radicalization of modern abortion advocates. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a Christian woman who was arrested twice for silently praying outside an abortion facility, has been awarded £13,000 and an apology from the West Midlands Police.

Alliance Defending Freedom UK supported Vaughan-Spruce’s legal defense which resulted in exoneration from the criminal charges. She then issued a claim against West Midlands Police for wrongful arrests and false imprisonments, assault and battery concerning an intrusive search of her person, and a breach of her human rights in 2022 and 2023. Vaughan-Spruce said in a statement: “Silent prayer is not a crime. Nobody should be arrested merely for the thoughts they have in their heads — yet this happened to me twice at the hands of the West Midlands Police, who explicitly told me that ‘prayer is an offence’.”