
Scottish Police Were Right to Arrest Pro-Lifer Outside Abortion Facility, Lawmaker Says
Says buffer-zones law doesn’t ban prayer, but acknowledges offenses are in the eye of the beholder.
Says buffer-zones law doesn’t ban prayer, but acknowledges offenses are in the eye of the beholder.
The legal crackdown on pro-life expression in the U.K. is expanding, with Scotland in the forefront.
Of the monks, Father Conacher, who was born in England and then moved to Edinburgh as a child, has been there the longest — 52 years.
This announcement comes just one month after England instituted the same ban.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Scotland has also been critical of the new law, warning that it does not include protections for Christians who expressed traditional Christian views about gender.
This would be more extreme than neighboring England and Wales’ Public Order Act, which sets the limits of buffer zones at 150 meters and does not permit extensions.
The statistics also revealed that there has been an 84% increase in the number of abortions where a baby has Down syndrome, from 32 in 2021 to 59 in 2022.
A gathering of the 40 Days for Life campaign will take place near Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow from Feb. 22 through April 2.
Critics of the bill are particularly concerned that the new legislation lowers the age of gender transition from 18 to 16 years old.
The pilgrimage reliquary contains the relics of St. Columba, St. Andrew, and St. Margaret of Scotland, the country’s patron saints.
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