Isabel Vaughan-Spruce: ‘Abortion centres are the modern day Calvary’
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Emma Fowle2024-12-19T13:45:00
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce has been praying outside abortion centres for the past 20 years. She explains why, despite being arrested twice in recent months, she won’t let changes to the law deter her
Even after she was exonerated, and received £13,000 in compensation from the police, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce feared her ordeal at the hands of the British justice system could deter fellow Christians from standing up for the rights of the unborn child. But she needn’t have worried.
“I’ve had people contacting me saying: ‘I need to get off the fence. This is a really key issue and I need to do something about it,’” she says of many Christians’ reactions to the introduction of new 150m ‘buffer zones’ around abortion centres in the UK. It isn’t just pro-life protests that are banned within these zones – offering support to vulnerable women and even silent prayer are also forbidden.
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