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Buffer Zones
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Police Scotland has scrubbed over 12,000 criminal investigations because they required excessive manpower, a report has revealed, despite several police officers arresting an elderly grandmother who allegedly breached a buffer zone in Glasgow in February.
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Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) council spent nearly £150,000 prosecuting a man and woman who allegedly participated in pro-life activity in a buffer zone in its local authority. BCP council spent £93,000 taking Adam Smith-Connor to court last October after he prayed in silence for his dead son within a…
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A Baptist pastor is due to appear in court this week after he delivered a sermon on God’s love inside a buffer zone in Northern Ireland.
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Gove said that praying silently inside a buffer zone could not be considered “genuine intimidation”.
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Livia Tossici-Bolt, 63, is on trial for standing with a sign that read, “Here to talk, if you want to”, near an abortion facility in Bournemouth.
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The author of the Scottish buffer zones law has said that prayer inside a home within a buffer zone might break the law.
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Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on 14 February, US Vice-President JD Vance censured Western governments’ curtailing of free speech.
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The pensioner was holding a sign that read, “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.”
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SPUC has welcomed Vance’s “moral leadership” on the “vital matter” of free speech and buffer zones.
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Isabel Vaughan-Spruce has been targeted again by police for her “mere presence” near an abortion facility.
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Buffer zones around abortion facilities in Scotland will come into effect on 24 September, in just under three weeks, it has been announced. The public will face fines of £10,000 or more if they violate the new law.
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A concentration camp survivor in her late eighties has been found guilty of pro-life activism, including the obstruction of an abortion facility entrance in the US, and now faces dying in prison for her beliefs.
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Isabel Vaughan-Spruce has received a £13k payout and an apology from the police who wrongfully arrested her for praying silently outside an abortion facility in Birmingham.
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The Home Office is to consider banning silent prayer within 150 metres of abortion facilities in England and Wales, a move slammed by SPUC as illiberal and dangerous.
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The pro-abortion lobby, including the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), has urged Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to enforce buffer zones that outlaw pro-life activity, including silent prayer, within 150 metres of abortion facilities.