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Buffer Zones
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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.
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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.