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English pro-lifers ‘not guilty’ for prayer outside abortion clinics

February 16, 2023

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CWN Editor's Note: Isabel Vaughan-Spruce and Father Sean Gough have been acquitted of all charges for praying outside English abortion clinics.

In separate incidents, the two had been arrested for violation a rule against “protesting and engaging in an act that is intimidating to service users” at abortion clinics. In both cases the pro-life activists had been silent, but were arrested on suspicion that they were praying.

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