https://m2aavguuqnw.moera.blog/moera/post/b4163a48-2a00-461f-87bc-c89b3f2482b7
A catholic woman who was arrested for silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham has been acquitted.
Charity volunteer Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, 45, was standing near the BPAS Robert Clinic in Kings Norton when police questioned, searched and arrested her.
Officers received complaints from an onlooker on December 6 2022 who suspected she was praying, although she was not making any visible form of protest.
In a statement after the hearing Vaughan-Spruce said that the public’s “fundamental freedoms” should be protected.
I should never have been arrested for my thoughts and treated like a criminal simply for silently praying on a public street.
...what is profoundly anti-social are the steps now being taken to censor freedom of speech, freedom to offer help, freedom to pray and even freedom to think.
We must stand firm against this and ensure that these most fundamental freedoms are protected, and that all our laws reflect this.
