‘Abhorrently wrong that I was searched, interrogated by police and charged’
By WND News Services
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce (Courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom U.K.)
By Kate Anderson
Daily Caller News Foundation
The U.K. March for Life director was recently arrested after police found her praying silently outside of an abortion clinic, according to a press release by Alliance Defending Freedom U.K.
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a charity volunteer and Christian, was approached by police officers outside of BPAS Robert Clinic in Birmingham, England, and asked if she was praying, according to ADF’s press release. Vaughan-Spruce told the officers she “might be praying silently” and was later arrested.
“It’s abhorrently wrong that I was searched, arrested, interrogated by police and charged simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind,” Vaughan-Spruce stated in the release. “Nobody should be criminalized for thinking and for praying, in a public space in the UK.”
The press release stated that Vaughan-Spruce was also confronted by the police with pictures of her standing outside the clinic and demanded to know if she had been praying in the pictures. Vaughan-Spruce only said it was possible that she had been praying but could not know for sure from the pictures.
“[S]ome of the time she had spent praying, other times she had been distracted and thought about other things, such as her lunch,” ADF wrote. “She maintains that both of these thoughts were equally peaceful and imperceptible and that neither should be criminalized.”
READ MORE>>>>
