Scottish woman arrested for holding a sign outside abortion facility
The 74-year-old’s sign read “Coercion is a crime—here to talk, if you want”
A Scottish woman has become the first person to be arrested under a new law that prohibits protests outside abortion clinics in the country.
According to the BBC, the 74-year-old woman was arrested outside the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow for holding a sign that read, "Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want."
Police officers were responding to a call that reported a protest outside the facility in light of the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act, which was passed by the Scottish Parliament last year.
As LifeNews reports, a number of individuals have faced charges for similarly innocuous, silent offers of support or prayer outside abortion facilities in the United Kingdom.
Livia Tossici-Bolt, 63, will soon stand trial for holding a similarly-worded sign in a “buffer zone” outside an abortion facility in Bournemouth, England.
Last year, British army veteran Adam Smith-Connor was arrested outside the same abortion clinic for silently praying inside the “buffer zone.”
The English author George Orwell would likely be rolling over in his grave if he could see the fruition of his fictious concept of “thought crimes” from the dystopian novel 1984.
The abortion agenda is so corrosive to classical western values that not only is free speech being banned outside abortion clinics, but simply holding a sign offering help to anyone who wants it and praying silently are actually illegal in the UK.
There is something seriously wrong with anyone who would want to criminalize such activities, especially when they do so under the guise of “supporting women.”
Can you imagine hating women so much that you want to ban people offering them help or even praying for them?
1984 has become a reality.