{"id":282071,"date":"2022-12-22T15:27:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T21:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=282071"},"modified":"2022-12-23T17:16:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T23:16:14","slug":"pro-life-arrested-prayer-uk-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-arrested-prayer-uk-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Thoughtcrime&#8217;: Pro-life woman arrested for silently praying near UK abortion facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/adf.uk\/woman-charged-for-thoughtcrime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alliance Defending Freedom<\/a>) A charity volunteer has been arrested and charged on four counts after she told the police she \u201cmight\u201d be praying silently, when questioned as to why she was standing on a public street near an abortion facility.<\/p>\n<p>Police approached Isabel Vaughan-Spruce standing near the BPAS Robert Clinic in Kings Norton, Birmingham. Vaughan-Spruce was carrying no sign and remained completely silent until approached by officers. Police had received complaints from an onlooker who suspected that Vaughan-Spruce was praying silently in her mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s abhorrently wrong that I was searched, arrested, interrogated by police and charged simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind. Censorship zones purport to ban harassment, which is already illegal. Nobody should ever be subject to harassment. But what I did was the furthest thing from harmful \u2013 I was exercising my freedom of thought, my freedom of religion, inside the privacy of my own mind. Nobody should be criminalised for thinking and for praying, in a public space in the UK,\u201d said Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, following her arrest for silent prayer.<\/p>\n<p>The censorship zone measure introduced by Birmingham authorities criminalises individuals percieved to be \u201cengaging in any act of approval or disapproval or attempted act of approval or disapproval\u201d in relation to abortion, including through \u201cverbal or written means, prayer or counselling\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police in the UK arrest a woman for silently praying: <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Are you praying?&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I might be praying in my head.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Q8UnKmfa1\">pic.twitter.com\/7Q8UnKmfa1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryMargOlohan\/status\/1605957711631249408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><b>URGENT:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/future-of-abortion\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=minibomb\"><b><i>For every dollar given, 34 more people can be reached with the truth about abortion. Will you join us in this life-saving work as a monthly donor today?<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>A \u201cthoughtcrime\u201d in UK law?<\/h3>\n<p>Vaughan-Spruce had stood near the abortion facility whilst it was closed on three occasions, in which she says she \u201cmight\u201d have been praying.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst in the police station, Vaughan-Spruce was shown pictures of herself outside the abortion facility. She said she could not recall from the pictures whether she was praying at these specific moments, or whether these had been taken at times that she was distracted and thought about other things, such as her lunch. She maintains that all her thoughts were equally peaceful and imperceptible and that none should be criminalised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsabel\u2019s experience should be deeply concerning to all those who believe that our hard-fought fundamental rights are worth protecting. It is truly astonishing that the law has granted local authorities such wide and unaccountable discretion, that now even thoughts deemed \u201cwrong\u201d can lead to a humiliating arrest and a criminal charge,\u201d said Jeremiah Igunnubole, Legal Counsel for ADF UK, the legal organisation supporting Vaughan-Spruce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA mature democracy should be able to differentiate between criminal conduct and the peaceful exercise of constitutionally protected rights. Isabel, a woman of good character, and who has tirelessly served her community by providing charitable assistance to vulnerable women and children, has been treated no better than a violent criminal. The recent increase in buffer zone legislation and orders is a watershed moment in our country. We must ask ourselves whether we are a genuinely democratic country committed to protecting the peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of speech. We are at serious risk of mindlessly sleepwalking into a society that accepts, normalises, and even promotes the \u201ctyranny of the majority,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>As part of her conditions for bail, Vaughan-Spruce was told that she should not contact a local Catholic priest who was also involved in pro-life work \u2013 a condition that was later dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Police also imposed restrictions, as part of her bail, on Vaughan-Spruce engaging in public prayer beyond the PSPO area, stating that this was necessary to prevent further offences.<\/p>\n<h3>Pro-Life Views under Pressure<\/h3>\n<p>Vaughan-Spruce is the Director of the UK March for Life and has volunteered for many years in support of women in crisis pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have devoted much of my life to supporting women in crisis pregnancies with everything that they need to make an empowered choice for motherhood. I am also involved in supporting women who have had abortions and are struggling with the consequences of it. I\u2019ve grown close to many of the women I\u2019ve been able to support over the years, and it breaks my heart to know that so many more go through this every day,\u201d explains Vaughan-Spruce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy faith is a central part of who I am, so sometimes I\u2019ll stand or walk near an abortion facility and pray about this issue. This is something I\u2019ve done pretty much every week for around the last 20 years of my life. I pray for my friends who have experienced abortion, and for the women who are thinking about going through it themselves,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-uk-buffer-zone-prayer-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pro-life group fights UK buffer zone outlawing prayer within 6 blocks of abortion business<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her arrest follows another recent incident in Bournemouth where a woman was told to leave by local authorities for praying, even outside of the local censorship zone. <a href=\"https:\/\/adf.uk\/bournemouth-prayer-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a <a href=\"https:\/\/adf.uk\/public-prayer-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grandmother from Liverpool<\/a> successfully overturned her charge on human rights grounds after she was arrested and fined for praying silently near an abortion facility on a walk during lockdown. Find out more.<\/p>\n<h3>Westminster weighs up nationalising censorship zones in light of human rights concerns<\/h3>\n<p>In Westminster, parliamentarians are considering legislation to introduce censorship zones in England and Wales. Clause 9 of the Public Order Bill, currently under parliamentary debate, would prohibit pro-life volunteers from \u201cinfluencing\u201d, \u201cadvising\u201d, \u201cpersuading\u201d, \u201cinforming\u201d, \u201coccupying space\u201d or even \u201cexpressing opinion\u201d within the vicinity of an abortion facility.<\/p>\n<p>Those who breach the rules could face up to two years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>A 2018 government review into the work of pro-life volunteers outside of abortion facilities found that instances of harassment are rare, and police already have powers to prosecute individuals engaging in such activities. The most common activities of pro-life groups were found to be quiet or silent prayer, or offering leaflets about charitable support available to women who would like to consider alternative options to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>At 150m, the national censorship zones would be larger than a football pitch (115m). In the equivalent space, if one goalkeeper were to pray for the other goalkeeper \u2013 regardless of impact or noticeability \u2013 that would be an offence.<\/p>\n<p>The censorial provisions of the parliamentary bill drew substantive criticism from members of the House of Lords, including Liberal Democrat Peer Lord Beith, who deemed the clause \u201cthe most profound restriction on free speech I have ever seen in any UK legislation.\u201d Lord Farmer called the clause \u201cfundamentally flawed\u201d, and asked, \u201cWhen one walks past, one sees that vigils are often small groups of harmless, mainly female, pensioners. Why should they be banned and silenced?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Clause has caused great controversy following a <a href=\"https:\/\/questions-statements.parliament.uk\/written-statements\/detail\/2022-10-24\/hlws333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement released from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State<\/a> shortly after MPs voted to include it, admitting that the clause \u201ccould not be said to be compliant\u201d with Convention rights as protected in the European Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Baroness Claire Fox, who advocates for abortion, pointed out that \u201ccreating prohibitions on protest on an issue-by-issue basis is not an appropriate way to make law. It sets a precedent that will inevitably lead to attempts to prevent speech, expression, information sharing, assembly or the holding of protected beliefs around other sites or in relation to other controversial or unpopular causes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Editor&#8217;s Note: This press release was originally published at Alliance Defending Freedom.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pledge.liveaction.org\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=prolife_pledge\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277267\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pledge-live-action-ad-970x250-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Alliance Defending Freedom) A charity volunteer has been arrested and charged on four counts after she told the police she \u201cmight\u201d be praying silently, when questioned as to why she was standing on a public street near an abortion facility. 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