Posted on 02/12/2025 3:33:08 PM PST by marshmallow
New video footage shows a police officer demanding a Catholic woman walk away from an abortion clinic simply because of what she is known to believe.
The officer of West Midlands Police is seen demanding that charitable volunteer Isabel Vaughan-Spruce leaves a public area where she was standing alone and praying silently.
In the footage, obtained by ADF UK, a Christian legal organisation, the police officer explained that he believes Miss Vaughan-Spruce’s “mere presence” may constitute “harassment, alarm and distress”.
He said he drew his conclusions because it was known that Miss Vaughan-Spruce held pro-life beliefs and belonged to a pro-life organisation.
He thus concluded that she was breaching the rules of the “buffer zone” – an area within 150m of an abortion facility.
The buffer zone legislation does not single out individuals to ban from the area for their beliefs, but rather prohibits behaviours amounting to “intimidation”, “harassment”, or “influencing a person’s decision to access” an abortion facility.
Miss Vaughan-Spruce said: “It has been made clear time and time again through the verdict of Birmingham Magistrates’ Court, through the concession and pay-out from the police, through the words of the former Home Secretary and through CPS Guidance – you cannot break the law by simply existing in a buffer zone, holding thoughts and beliefs in your mind.
“Every person has a right to stand in a public space and think what they want. The police officer told me that my “mere presence” was offensive – that’s nothing short of viewpoint discrimination.
“He believes that just because I hold pro-life beliefs, I am automatically a criminal in certain public areas. This isn’t right.”
With support from ADF UK, Vaughan-Spruce has written to police to ask for clarification that a person’s mere presence does not amount to a criminal offence.
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While the Monarchy snores.
So they literally have thought police in England now. Where do they find people to enforce this? Are they really that morally bankrupt?
Perfidious Albion alert!
You get the government You deserve..
when throughout history wasn’t the UK total garbage?
Geeze...British police are starting to make the Stasi look good by comparison.
No sane monarch presides over the suicide of his kingdom.
And the kingdom is people, not dirt.
When he’s outnumbered by a populace that regards him and his descendants as infidels, they’re gone.
The prince and his comely wifey should um, stage an intervention, or look for a new estate in Gstaad.
Indeed.
As usual.
World War Two.
Priorities.
They harass people like this woman while ignoring thousands illegal alien pedophiles preying on UK children.
The Biden administration did the same in the U.S.
They used the FACE ACT to persecute abortion protesters while ignoring millions of illegal aliens pouring into our country. Thousands of children went missing.
If you’re looking for something “offensive,” try Islam.
Exactly!
Once we straighten things out here we need to send an expeditionary force to retake Britain. No mercy.
> Where do they find people to enforce this? <
Excellent question. There is also a video on YouTube where a British cop goes up to man wearing a yarmulke (Jewish head covering), and asks him to leave the area.
Why? Because the man’s presence might upset some people.
I’m taking it under advisement to start calling the UK “YUK!”
instead.
> British police are starting to make the Stasi look good by comparison. <
At least the Stasi had (for them) a reasonable goal - protection of the East German state. There seems to be no goal for the police in the above story. It’s just harassing a Christian for the sake of harassing a Christian.
Big-mouth Pope Francis has an opinion on literally everything. Perhaps he will issue a statement in support of this woman.
I kid, of course. Francis has no interest in defending Christians. He had other priorities.
+1
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