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Pro-life UK woman faces trial for offering ‘harmless chat’ outside abortion center

Local authorities charged Livia Tossici-Bolt, 62, with breaching a Public Space Protection Order after she peacefully offered conversations near an abortion clinic, which Conservative MP Sir Edward Leigh blasted the trial as ‘mad.’

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Alliance Defending Freedom

• Mar 5, 2025

UK woman charged for offering help to women in crisis pregnancies outside abortion center

Holding a sign offering conversation, pro-life activist Livia Tossici-Bolt was accused of violating a local abortion 'buffer zone,' which expressly prohibits approval or disapproval of abortion.

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Alliance Defending Freedom

• Mar 12, 2024Apr 22, 2024

UK pro-lifer arrested a second time for silently praying near abortion center

In video footage of the incident, a police officer can be seen telling recently acquitted Isabel Vaughan-Spruce that it is still 'an offense' to pray in the abortion clinic's 'buffer zone,' even if done so silently.

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Jack Bingham

• Mar 6, 2023Mar 7, 2023

UK pro-lifers arrested for praying outside empty abortion center are acquitted of all charges

'In the UK, freedom of thought, prayer, offers of help, and peaceful conversation are not illegal and we call on Parliament to reject the creation of more censorship zones,' ADF UK legal counsel Jeremiah Igunnubole said.

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Alliance Defending Freedom

• Feb 16, 2023Apr 22, 2024

UK police drop charges against woman for praying silently by abortion center. Now she wants to clear her name

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, whose charges related to silently praying outside an abortion center were dropped, has decided to seek a clear court verdict after prosecutors said she could face further proceedings.

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Alliance Defending Freedom

• Feb 3, 2023

‘Fundamentally wrong’: UK lawmakers condemn proposed bill to censor speech around abortion facilities

The proposed legislation 'is an instance of the abrogation of responsibility since it will ultimately be the decision of a particular judge to set the precedent for the correct interpretation of the law,' Right to Life UK's Catherine Robinson said.

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Right To Life UK

• Feb 1, 2023Apr 22, 2024

British police slap army vet with fine for praying silently outside abortion facility

An attorney with the legal advocacy group supporting the man argued that ‘[n]obody should be criminalised for what they believe – especially not when they express that belief silently, in the privacy of their own minds.’

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Ashley Sadler

• Jan 20, 2023Jan 24, 2023

UK woman charged by police after praying silently outside abortion facility

Her arrest follows another recent incident in Bournemouth where a woman was told to leave by local authorities for praying in a public space, despite being outside the borders of the local abortion center censorship zone.

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Alliance Defending Freedom

• Dec 20, 2022

UK council bans ‘directed’ prayer outside abortion center

Richmond Council banned prayer and counseling outside the abortion center as the latest crackdown against pro-life free speech.

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K.V. Turley

• Feb 26, 2019Jun 18, 2021

She almost aborted her baby. But a pink rosary and unexpected text message held her back

The woman was alone in a foreign country with no one to help her.

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K.V. Turley

• Jul 5, 2018Apr 23, 2024

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Pro-life UK woman faces trial for offering ‘harmless chat’ outside abortion center

UK woman charged for offering help to women in crisis pregnancies outside abortion center

UK pro-lifer arrested a second time for silently praying near abortion center

UK pro-lifers arrested for praying outside empty abortion center are acquitted of all charges

UK police drop charges against woman for praying silently by abortion center. Now she wants to clear her name

‘Fundamentally wrong’: UK lawmakers condemn proposed bill to censor speech around abortion facilities

British police slap army vet with fine for praying silently outside abortion facility

UK woman charged by police after praying silently outside abortion facility

UK council bans ‘directed’ prayer outside abortion center

She almost aborted her baby. But a pink rosary and unexpected text message held her back