The past 10 years have seen a deepening desire by officials and campaigners to see the pro-life movement confined to places it cannot be seen. It is being enacted through buffer zones around places in which abortions occur across the United Kingdom and enforced, when the state feels necessary, by arrests and prosecution.
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce will go to trial in January, 2027, for silently praying outside of an abortion centre. It will conclude a five-year ordeal which included two arrests and winning a settlement before she was criminally charged last year.
