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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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A distressed mother has contacted an agony aunt for advice after her pregnant daughter said she wants an abortion “to concentrate on her career”. The reply said that the daughter should contact an abortion provider for “impartial advice”. The mother contacted the Daily Mail’s Dear Caroline agony aunt column to…
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson spoke at SPUC’s Lives Worth Living event in Middlesbrough last Friday to warn against MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill that threatens disabled people. Baroness Grey-Thompson, one of the greatest Paralympians of all time, amassed 11 gold medals, four silvers and one bronze in the wheelchair…
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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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Legal experts have warned that MSP Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill “may be beyond the powers of the Scottish Parliament” to enact, and even if passed, “the new law would be either unworkable or extremely dangerous”. Legal experts Mary Neal, Murray Earle and Michael Foran…
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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…