It’s happened again. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, the director of the UK March for Life, was confronted by the police outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham on October 18. Her offense? Silently praying.
https://x.com/ADF_UK/status/1717480648070344758?s=20
Vaughan-Spruce has already faced criminal charges for such behavior. The first time she was fully vindicated in court. The second time the investigation was dropped.
The reason she keeps coming face to face with the thought police is because of the U.K.’s Anti-social Behavior, Crime and Policing Act (2014), which gave local authorities the power to issue “public space protection orders.” These allow for censorship zones around abortion facilities that prevent “protesting” defined so broadly as to include “prayer or counseling.”
Just so we’re clear: In the U.K., a Christian woman cannot pray silently outside an abortion clinic, but hundreds of Muslim anti-Israel protesters can do this outside Downing Street:
https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1714770917128392974
What an incredible double standard.