The Gateway Pundit
This week a Labour MP, Rupa Huq, has introduced an amendment to legislation that would proposes a 2 year jail sentence for anyone praying with women before they go into an abortion center. Rupa Huq is one of the most vocal supporters of abortion in the House of Commons. Her amendment seeks to enforce a “buffer zone” outside abortion centers.
It was back in 2017 that “buffer zones” were first proposed as part of a public consultation by the Conservative Government. The then Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, launched a review into the scale and nature of pro-life vigils outside abortion centers. There were small, silent prayerful vigils often by Catholic nuns. They were very different from the portrayal of gatherings outside US abortion providers that are shown by the media as loud and aggressive and forceful. Yet British parliamentarians thought they were a problem. Prayer was bad.
In 2018, the Home Office announced it could not find adequate reason to introduce censorship zones. Yet the “concern” about these praying nuns has not gone away. There of course is already legislation that exists to restrict protest activities that cause harm to others.
