Posted on 04/04/2025 1:00:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Christian woman has been convicted of breaching an abortion clinic buffer zone after holding a sign offering help.
Dr. Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, was found guilty at Poole Magistrates’ Court. She was sentenced to a conditional discharge and ordered to pay prosecution costs of $25,800 (£20,000) in full by May 31. A fundraising campaign is underway to help her cover the costs.
She said her conviction was "a dark day for Great Britain."
She reiterated that her sign merely offered consensual conversations with women accessing the facility and did not express approval or disapproval toward abortion, and was therefore not in breach of the buffer zone regulations.
She was convicted despite an unusual intervention by the U.S. State Department in which it suggested that free speech was important to U.S.-U.K. relations.
She is weighing up her legal options after her conviction on Friday.
“I was not protesting and did not harass or obstruct anyone," she said. "All I did was offer consensual conversation in a public place, as is my basic right, and yet the court found me guilty."
Tossici-Bolt was prosecuted after refusing to pay a fixed penalty notice for holding a sign in an abortion clinic buffer zone in Bournemouth that said, “Here to talk, if you want.”
She reiterated that her sign merely offered consensual conversations with women accessing the facility and did not express approval or disapproval toward abortion, and was therefore not in breach of the buffer zone regulations.
She was convicted despite an unusual intervention by the U.S. State Department in which it suggested that free speech was important to U.S.-U.K. relations.
She is weighing up her legal options after her conviction on Friday.
"Freedom of expression is in a state of crisis in the U.K. What has happened to this country? The U.S. State Department was right to be concerned by this case as it has serious implications for the entire Western world," she said.
“I remain committed to fighting for free speech, not only for my own sake but for all my fellow citizens. If we allow this precedent of censorship to stand, nobody’s right to freely express themselves is secure."
Her lawyer, Lorcán Price, of the Alliance Defending Freedom UK (ADF), said, “Everyone who cares about free speech should care about ‘buffer zones’. A Christian woman has been convicted merely for offering to chat on a public street in Britain. This ruling should show all reasonable people that, beyond the shadow of a doubt, abortion facility ‘buffer zones’ are incompatible with a free society."
The judge presiding over her case recently convicted another pro-lifer, Adam Smith-Connor, whose appeal hearing will be heard in July.
He was also prosecuted by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) council, which according to The Telegraph, has spent over $193,000 (£150,000) on the cases despite being cash-strapped.
But never tell the Brits they do not have free speech! And if you do so over there, you can be arrested!
If she’d stood in front of a Tabernacle screaming into Jews’ faces about “Palestine,” she’d probably have been fine.
“A fundraising campaign is underway to help her cover the costs.”
Watch them freeze donors’ bank accounts like they did in Canada.
Without a written constitution, the U.K. recognizes the sovereignty of parliamentary law. It’s courts are not as powerful as they are here. The U.K. protects women getting abortions dropping its birth rate, which results in the country then importing African and Muslim immigrants in order to grow the population. It’s the work of the devil for sure.
No country in Europe has free speech. None of them...
The UK is far beyond gone.
What should be done when they talk Marxist to us. I look to the Nuremberg trials for answers.
I wonder why the left is so passionately in love with abortion, so much so that they will viciously persecute anyone who indicates that he/she opposes abortion.
Tariffs Away
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