The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Scotland stated on their website that the 'Candlelight Procession is a peaceful vigil which commemorates the lives lost and hurt by the violence of abortion and ensures that these precious lives are not forgotten.'
40 000 people participated in the National March for Life on a late September Sunday. The event called for the protection of every human life, including unborn children.
The protest in Edinburgh was attended by supporters, some dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, brandishing signs outlining their so-called 'crimes' as defined by the new law, including peacefully praying and offering help to women in crisis pregnancies.
Sebastian Vaughan-Spruce was fined after he stood silently outside an abortion facility in Birmingham, England. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has condemned the penalty as 'extreme, needless and anti-democratic.'
'We are disrupting this talk. We’re not letting you spread your harmful rhetoric against people with uteruses [sic]…. We are not allowing this to happen on our campus.'
The introduction of 'buffer zones' around abortion facilities in Scotland would criminalize all pro-life activities outside of such buildings, including handing out flyers and participating in peaceful prayer vigils.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children urged its supporters to respond to Scotland's consultation on buffer zones around abortion facilities.