Originally published at The Crux
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A British woman who has been arrested multiple times for silently praying outside of an abortion clinic, and is now facing new charges, has said that people from the pro-life movement face harsher policing than other groups.
Speaking to Crux Now, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, co-director of March for Life UK, said that she and other volunteers praying outside abortion centres had faced serious abuse from members of the public which the police did nothing about.
“We had physical assaults caught on camera where you could identify the person committing the assault. You could see the number plate of their car. There were other witnesses there,” she said.
“We would give these videos to the police, and I remember on one occasion I asked the police officer, ‘Why are you not doing anything when we’re being assaulted?’ And he said to me, ‘If you don’t want to be assaulted, you don’t have to come out of your house,’” she explained.
“People talk about two-tier policing now. Those of us who are pro-life have seen that going on for many years, because if the boot were on the other foot, I have no doubt that action would have been taken, and rightly
