Posted on 03/09/2023 5:49:44 PM PST by marshmallow
In video footage of the incident, a police officer can be seen telling recently acquitted Isabel Vaughan-Spruce that it is still 'an offense' to pray in the abortion clinic's 'buffer zone,' even if done so silently.
BIRMINGHAM, England (LifeSiteNews) — U.K. pro-life activist Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, who was just acquitted last month on charges related to praying outside an abortion facility, was arrested again this Monday for silently praying outside an abortion center.
In a video posted to Twitter by Alliance Defending Freedom UK (ADF UK) Monday, two male police officers can be seen asking Vaughan-Spruce to “step outside the exclusion zone” of an abortion facility in Birmingham, England.
Vaughan-Spruce responds by calmly saying, “But I’m not protesting, I’m not engaging in any of the activities prohibited.”
To this, the one officers said, “But you’ve said you’re engaging in prayer, which is the offense.”
“Silent prayer,” clarified Vaughan-Spruce.
“No, but you’re still engaging in prayer. It is an offense,” restated the officer, who then asked Vaughan-Spruce if she would prefer to be “arrested” rather than “step outside the exclusion zone.”
“Are those the only two alternatives?” asked the pro-lifer.
“Yes,” said the policeman.
In a series of follow-up tweets, one of which contains additional video footage, ADF UK stated that “Police wrongly claimed that the PSPO (Public Spaces Protection Order) ‘buffer zone’ banned Isabel from simply standing near a clinic.”
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Christians are being persecuted everywhere. In the United Kingdom, in Canada, in the U.S., in Nicaragua, in China...
Where is the church? Where are the religious leaders?
Same tyranny exists here and Repubs refuse to make election integrity the #1 priority. Would they like executions next? All these candidates, Trump, DeSantis, Nikki Haley are all wasting their time if this is not taken care of because Democrats WILL fix the election again, and this time even more so with Biden in office.
It is an interesting juxtaposition of this article and the one directly below it.
Lessons learned: You cannot pray.
But you can destroy.
We on the right are learning.
Be aware, leftists, because when our tipping point comes, I hope to watch the videos of your demise.
I wonder if they just stand there and point at the building...
Not praying. Just pointing.
Kind of like in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Somehow an appropriate movie reference for the abortion slaughterhouses.
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Democrats get erections watching videos like this
Luckily, a British man invented the term “thoughtcrime” for this, so we don’t have to translate some term from German, Russian or French to describe what this woman is guilty of.
What if one carried a sign outside a UK abortion clinic that simply said: “AM I PRAYING?”
What would the UK fascists do?
We can tell you were thinking about praying and there will be none of that!
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