U.K. police have paid a Christian pro-life activist 13,000 pounds (about $16,800) in compensation after they arrested her twice for praying silently near an abortion clinic in Birmingham, England.
Authorities first arrested Isabel Vaughan-Spruce in December 2022 for her actions within a so-called “buffer zone” outside the clinic. The area, officially known as a public space protection order (PSPO), prohibits “protesting and engaging in an act that is intimidating to service users,” and showing “approval or disapproval with respect to issues related to abortion services, by any means,” which authorities said includes silent prayer.
According to the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) UK, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group, Vaughan-Spruce sought the claim against police for “two wrongful arrests and false imprisonments, assault and battery in relation to an intrusive search of her person, and for a breach of her human rights both in respect to the arrests and to the onerous bail conditions imposed on her.”
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