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Buffer Zones
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A grandmother who was the first person to be arrested for allegedly breaching a Scottish buffer zone has said that she is “willing to go to prison on the issue because I am unshakeably convinced that nobody should be criminalised for a peaceful offer to speak on any public land…
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Police Scotland has said that buffer zones are not enforceable when abortion facilities are closed. The statement comes after pro-abortion MSP Gillian Mackay suggested they should be enforced at all hours. Lawyers from Police Scotland and the Crown Office confirmed that Mackay’s buffer zones law cannot be enforced when abortion…
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Gillian Mackay, the MSP who created the Scottish buffer zones law, is calling for an extension of the exclusion area around the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow to target more peaceful pro-life activists. The Glasgow hospital currently has a 200m exclusion zone outlawing all pro-life activity, including prayer, and…
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President Donald Trump’s US State Department says it is “disappointed” after pro-life activist Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted last Friday for breaching a “buffer zone”. The US Department added that “freedom of expression must be protected for all”.
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Pro-life activist Isabel Vaughan-Spruce has lodged a formal complaint against West Midlands Police, accusing the force of attempting to curtail her right to free speech and silent prayer. Her case, like that of Livia Tossici-Bolt, has been backed by US Congress. Ms Vaughan-Spruce lodged a formal complaint against West Midlands…
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GB News presenter Nana Akua said on air that a pro-life vigil helped her not to abort her child, “and I’m glad that I was influenced by that”. Miss Akua, 53, made the admission after pro-life activist Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, was found guilty and sentenced for offering conversation to women…
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Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, has been found guilty and fined £20,000 for breaching a buffer zone in Bournemouth in March 2023. Her case had been championed by the US State Department, which warned that the persecution of pro-life men and women in the UK threatens a potential UK-US trade deal.
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Left image: Alliance Defending Freedom UK, Right image – Wikimedia Commons: VancePortrait Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been warned by President Donald Trump’s State Department that there will be no trade deal with the United States if the UK insists on criminalising pro-life free speech. The US is observing the…
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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.