As we celebrate a holiday that holds life as the main focus of celebration, people are being arrested in front of abortion clinics.

Why? For praying silently, apparently. According to this from The New York Post, a woman in the UK was arrested after admitting she was praying silently in front of an abortion clinic in Birmingham. Take a look:

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, the director of the U.K. March for Life, was the woman who was arrested.

(Vaughan-Spruce) was standing near the BPAS Robert Clinic in Kings Norton, Birmingham in an area ADF UK called a ‘censorship zone,’ when police approached her after an onlooker complained she might be praying outside the abortion facility.”-Alliance Defending Freedom, UK

In The UK, there are ‘Buffer zones” around abortion clinics where censorship exists. Any “suspicious” activity from bystanders is questioned and could possibly lead to arrest. Vaughn-Spruce was searched, arrested and then interrogated. Her mere presence threatened those inside the clinic working or getting abortions, apparently. For praying silently. Think about that. If this is not from a page in Orwell’s 1984, I’ve got nothing else.

It’s abhorrently wrong that I was searched, arrested, interrogated by police and charged simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind. Censorship zones purport to ban harassment, which is already illegal. Nobody should ever be subject to harassment. But what I did was the furthest thing from harmful – I was exercising my freedom of thought, my freedom of religion, inside the privacy of my own mind. Nobody should be criminalised for thinking and for praying, in a public space in the UK.”-Isabel Vaughan-Spruce

Vaughan-Spruce was arrested for thoughtcrime. Apparently, Vaughan-Spruce appeared at the select abortion clinic three times and this third time, she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and, possibly, having the “wrong” thoughts. She was arrested for having the “wrong thoughts”. A suspicious, pro-life woman, standing silently in front of an abortion clinic, possibly praying. Time to summon the Thought Police. Sooner or later, they were bound to get her.

Imagine, a personal prayer such as, “Dear God, grant mercy upon these women to have the change of heart to see the wonderful gift they have each been given” or “Dear God, I pray for the innocent lives being taken in this abortion clinic” being subject to arrest.

Whilst in the police station, Vaughan-Spruce was shown pictures of herself outside the abortion facility. She said she could not recall from the pictures whether she was praying at these specific moments, or whether these had been taken at times that she was distracted and thought about other things, such as her lunch. She maintains that all her thoughts were equally peaceful and imperceptible and that none should be criminalised.”-ADF/UK

Crazy that when it comes to things like home invasions and burglaries, property crimes, domestic disputes, theft…do the police respond? No. Praying silently in front of an abortion clinic? Better call for back up on this one. I am not faulting law enforcement here, but rather faulting policy. According to this, the city of Birmingham is one of the most dangerous cities in the West Midlands. Let’s not even talk about grooming rape gangs that have plagued the city. But go ahead, arrest the woman for silent prayer. She’s the real threat.

Orwell predicted and the left is delivering. Criminalizing thought in the cause of "tolerance" and "democracy". First they steal your words then your soul. Read the entire story.https://t.co/EMU3rFcTlK

— Phillip Kline (@PhillDKline) December 23, 2022

It is terrifying.

That woman who was "arrested for praying outside an abortion clinic" is being backed by ADF UK. That's the UK branch of: Alliance Defending Freedom a US Christian group that works to end rights for LGBTQ people and ban abortion. Don't fall for it pic.twitter.com/GOFTU5udxO

— Otto English (@Otto_English) December 23, 2022

You say “ban abortion” as if it is a bad thing-especially to those who use it multiple times as a means of birth control. Again, the concept of this woman being arrested for her silent thoughts and prayers is totally lost on some of these people who so readily defend the left’s (anti-Christian) agenda. What would happen if a cop arrested a Muslim for being in silent prayer on a street in the UK? Would there be outrage from the left? Of course, there would be. Americans on the left may even chime in to say cops all over the world are corrupt. But this? This does not reek of corruption one bit for the pro-abortion crowd on the left. They think a person getting arrested for their silent, opposing thoughts is a good thing.

The good news? The cops are arresting some people. Let’s ship them across the pond here so they can take on the crime in any one of our Democrat-run cities. Our law enforcement organizations here are woefully understaffed and unable to carry out the rule of law because their hands have been cuffed. Perhaps they can barge an Antifa member’s (parents’) house and arrest the alleged member in the basement for their malicious thoughts of looting a local business later on that evening. After all, the Thought Police have that right?

Perhaps, the cops could arrest a Shout Your Abortion hag for attempted murder. Hey, it’s the THOUGHT that counts and stopping a heartbeat is…well, murder, right?

👀Did you know that 6/10 unintended pregnancies end in an induced abortion yearly?

💜#abortionisnormal and many pregnant people every year exercise their right to safe abortion!

➡️This data is part of the WHO’s abortion care guidelines: https://t.co/7nWNZODlaI. #WomenOnWeb pic.twitter.com/Yv4zOA7cvi

— Women on Web (@WoWabortionpill) December 6, 2022

Now, there’s a number to be proud of, sisters!

We’ve reached the precipice where silently praying outside an abortion clinic is “theocratic, authoritarian and wrong” but playing God and ending a life worth praying over is not.

All of a sudden, 1984 is no longer a novel of fiction.

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