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Woman Arrested While Praying Silently Outside Abortion Clinic Charged with ‘Intimidation’ [UK]
Catholic News Agency ^ | 12/30/22 | Charlotte Evans

Posted on 12/30/2022 6:09:20 PM PST by marshmallow

CNA Newsroom, Dec 30, 2022 / 08:04 am A woman arrested by British police faces charges of “protesting and engaging in an act that is intimidating to service users” for standing still and praying silently outside an abortion facility.

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested in Birmingham, UK, on Dec. 6.

Video footage of her arrest was published on social media. The video shows an officer asking Vaughan-Spruce if she was praying, to which she answers: “I might be praying in my head.”

Following a further exchange with police, the 45-year-old was arrested and interrogated. Vaughan-Spruce is the director of March for Life UK.

She was charged Dec. 15 with four counts of breaking a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) around the abortion facility. A PSPO is intended to stop antisocial behavior. The terms of the PSPO include prayer under ‘protest,’ which is banned within the ‘buffer zone’ around the clinic.

Vaughan-Spruce is accused of “protesting and engaging in an act that is intimidating to service users” for standing still and praying silently inside a buffer zone.

At the time of Vaughan-Spruce’s arrest, the abortion facility outside which she was standing was closed.

Speaking about her pro-life work, Vaughan-Spruce said, “I have devoted much of my life to supporting women in crisis pregnancies with everything that they need to make an empowered choice for motherhood.”

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TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: 2timothy3verses1to7; abortion; daniel12verse10; jude1verses7to10; romans1verses18to32; uk; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 12/30/2022 6:09:20 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

So much for civil rights in England.


2 posted on 12/30/2022 6:12:38 PM PST by chopperk
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To: chopperk

Coming soon to America.


3 posted on 12/30/2022 6:15:14 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! R)
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To: marshmallow

If I understand this correctly, they are admitting that she put the far of God into them.


4 posted on 12/30/2022 6:20:48 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: marshmallow
It's in the Code of Wokism:

Prayer is violence.

5 posted on 12/30/2022 6:21:44 PM PST by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: marshmallow
in·tim·i·date
/inˈtiməˌdāt/
verb
verb: intimidate; 3rd person present: intimidates; past tense: intimidated; past participle: intimidated; gerund or present participle: intimidating
  1. frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants.
    "he tries to intimidate his rivals"

6 posted on 12/30/2022 6:22:01 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: chopperk

They have neither the First or Second Amendment over there.

Prince Harry even called the First Amendment “bonkers”.


7 posted on 12/30/2022 6:24:15 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: marshmallow
There is a reason a lot of people left England for a new world future, even after Magna Carta.

It seems like everyone has forgotten that.

The EU is every bit as authoritarian as North Korea, they just don't have that much control yet.


8 posted on 12/30/2022 6:28:41 PM PST by algore
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To: marshmallow

Christ said They will come for you


9 posted on 12/30/2022 6:33:18 PM PST by Right Brigade (It was better before they voted for whats his name,this must be the New World)
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To: packagingguy

See that the Lord is over the state and has not just the first claim on your loyalty but the only legitimate claim on it and you become sane.


10 posted on 12/30/2022 6:33:30 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: marshmallow

Yes, because a woman praying is intimidating.


11 posted on 12/30/2022 6:37:56 PM PST by EEGator
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To: marshmallow

Before she passed away in 2022, Queen Elizabeth II wrote in preparation for her memorial ceremonies and final burial:

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?”


12 posted on 12/30/2022 6:45:38 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Chode
Latin words for intimidate: TERRITO verb [rare] scare away, terrify, alarm, frighten, daunt I can totally understand how the clinic workers could be of her. Religious zealots, especially ones that believe in an afterlife, or have 'moral' convictions might persuaded to do anything to further their goals. there is nothing worse than a person who starts a crusade, gathers followers and believes they are right.
13 posted on 12/30/2022 6:45:43 PM PST by algore
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To: marshmallow

Queen Elizabeth I: “I will make no windows into men’s souls.”


14 posted on 12/30/2022 6:51:42 PM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: Chode
Latin words for intimidate:

TERRITO verb

scare away, terrify, alarm, frighten, daunt

I can totally understand how the clinic workers could be

__^insert any above word^__ of her.

Religious zealots, especially ones that believe in an afterlife, or have 'moral' convictions might persuaded to do anything to further their goals.

there is nothing worse than a person who starts a crusade, gathers followers,

annoys their betters

all with 100% conviction that they are right.

These people are not rational and thus capable of anything

15 posted on 12/30/2022 6:53:31 PM PST by algore
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To: algore

Religious zealots, especially ones that believe in an afterlife, or have ‘moral’ convictions might persuaded to do anything to further their goals.

there is nothing worse than a person who starts a crusade, gathers followers,

annoys their betters

all with 100% conviction that they are right.

These people are not rational and thus capable of anything
= = =
Like Jesus dying on the Cross, right?


16 posted on 12/30/2022 6:58:38 PM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: airborne

It ia already here.


17 posted on 12/30/2022 7:15:10 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: marshmallow

10 thousand muslims blocking public streets to pray so they can demonstrate their public conquest of London is not intimidation.

Paki gangs grooming and raping white English girls is not intimidation.

Silently holding a solo vigil on the sidewalk is “intimidation.”

Hard to believe the sun never set on the British empire.


18 posted on 12/30/2022 7:25:17 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: marshmallow

Just another version of fascism ... English version.


19 posted on 12/30/2022 7:36:32 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: TChad

Silence is violence. If you don’t actively agree with the satanic agenda then you are guilty.


20 posted on 12/30/2022 8:16:32 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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