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Isabel Vaughan-Spruce (center-left) and Father Sean Gough (center-right) celebrate their legal win outside the Birmingham Magistrates Court in Birmingham, England, on Feb. 16, 2023.

Two UK Catholics acquitted after being charged for praying in front of abortion clinic

Feb 16, 2023

By Joe Bukuras

Father Sean Gough and Isabel Vaughan-Spruce were charged with violating a local Public Spaces Protection Order that censors speech around... Read more

Pro-life prayer outside an abortion clinic.

Call for abortion clinic buffer zones throughout Scotland

Nov 24, 2020

Pro-choice activists are calling on the Scottish government to ban prayer and public discussion of abortion in the vicinity of... Read more

Pro-life prayer outside an abortion clinic.

Appeals court hearing challenge to London abortion clinic buffer zone

Jul 16, 2019

The Court of Appeal of England and Wales is hearing a challenge Tuesday and Wednesday to a buffer zone banning... Read more

The March for Life in Washington, D.C., Jan. 27, 2017.

Pro-life leaders welcome UK decision to reject abortion clinic buffer zones

Sep 25, 2018

Catholic leaders and pro-life advocates in England and Wales are praising the government’s decision not to impose buffer zones around... Read more

Pro-life prayer outside an abortion clinic.

UK government rejects calls for nationwide abortion clinic buffer zones

Sep 13, 2018

The British Home Secretary has rejected proposals for buffer zones around abortion clinics throughout England and Wales as disproportionate, after... Read more

Pro-life prayer outside an abortion clinic.

UK court upholds London abortion clinic buffer zone

Jul 2, 2018

By Christine Rousselle

The High Court of England and Wales ruled Monday that a buffer zone around an abortion facility in the London... Read more