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Buffer Zones
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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.
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On Tuesday 28 May, MSP Gillian Mackay’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill reached the beginning of Stage 2.
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SPUC has expressed deep disgust in the Scottish Parliament’s decision to pass stage one buffer zones legislation. SPUC has condemned this move as a concerning limitation on freedom of expression, speech and undermines the fundamental rights of individuals to assemble peacefully. The introducti
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Over three-quarters of respondents to a consultation said they oppose buffer zones around abortion facilities in Scotland. SPUC has called on Scottish MSPs to respect the democratic will of the Scottish people.
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The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee has backed MSP Gillian Mackay’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill. SPUC has slammed the move as a betrayal of women in crisis pregnancies.
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Cross-party MPs have called on the Home Office to protect the free speech of pro-life activists put on trial for allegedly breaching buffer zones around abortion facilities in England.
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Bishop John Keenan has told a Holyrood committee on buffer zones that balancing human rights “shouldn’t mean that something which is a legitimate point of view should be made invisible”.
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SPUC has told a Holyrood committee hearing evidence for and against buffer zones that such legislation is unnecessary and is based on a false assumption about pro-life vigils, and it would set an “alarming” precedent for freedom of thought and expression.