Police Arrested This Woman a Third Time for Praying Outside an Abortion Clinic

Police in the United Kingdom are so triggered by a Christian’s silent prayer, they are investigating a woman for the “offense” of praying silently for a third time.

This comes after police in the West Midlands department already have had to apologize and pay Isabel Vaughan-Spruce about $17,000 for the second time they arrested her.

WorldNetDaily had reported when that compensation was paid for the officers’ multiple decisions to arrest her. They also confessed to breaching her civil rights.

The case against the cops involved wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, assault and battery and breach of human rights.

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“There is no place for Orwell’s ‘thought police’ in 21st Century Britain, and thanks to legal support I received from ADF UK, I’m delighted that the settlement that I have received today acknowledges that. Yet despite this victory, I am deeply concerned that this violation could be repeated at the hands of other police forces,” she said in a prepared statement when the settlement was confirmed, a few short years ago.

Vaughan-Spruce was first arrested in November 2022 for silently praying in a censored “buffer zone,” a common practice also used in the United States to provide special protections for abortion businesses and deprive people of faith of their rights.

She was acquitted in February 2023, but just weeks later was arrested for the same offense again. A police officer said at that time, “You’ve said you’re engaging in prayer, which is the offense.”

She has explained, “Silent prayer is not a crime. Nobody should be arrested merely for the thoughts they have in their heads – yet this happened to me twice at the hands of the West Midlands Police, who explicitly told me that ‘prayer is an offense.’”

Now a statement from the U.K. Right to Life said she’s under investigation yet again.

Right to Life said now West Midlands police are asking prosecutors if there is enough evidence to charge the pro-life volunteer.

Vaughan-Spruce called the police agenda “unbelievable.”

“I am still being harassed by police for silently praying in that area, and yet again find myself under investigation for the same prayers I have said for twenty years,” she said.

March For Life U.K. noted of the West Midlands department, “What’s the apology and settlement for if the harassment by police still continues? [Pro-lifers] shouldn’t be treated as criminals for simply being on a public street.”

Jeremiah Igunnubole, legal counsel for ADF U.K., which is supporting Vaughan-Spruce, said the buffer zones around abortion industry businesses are “among the most concerning frontiers of censorship in the modern West.”

“We all stand against harassment and abuse, but the ‘buffer zone’ law broadly bans ‘influence’, which is being interpreted by police officers to target innocent people who happen to stand in a certain place and believe a certain thing.”

Other egregious circumstance have developed in the same fight, as a priest was charged for breaching an abortion business buffer zone because he had an “Unborn Lives Matter” sticker on his car.

Polls show vast majorities believe is ridiculous to try to control people’s thoughts, and spokesperson for Right To Life U.K. Catherine Robinson said, “The latest investigation into Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, who has at no point intimidated or harassed anyone, is unacceptable and highlights the confusion surrounding the buffer zone legislation. The police are using this dangerous law to target innocent people for simply holding private pro-life thoughts in their minds.”

LifeNews Note: This column originally appeared at WorldNetDaily.

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