Tag: Abortion

A woman has been prosecuted for holding a sign saying "here to talk, if you want to" outside a UK abortion clinic. That is not harassment and should not be crime, says Laura Perrins. We must have the right to persuade.

Anti-abortion campaigner Livia Tossici-Bolt, whose case was championed by the White House over free speech concerns, has been convicted of breaching a 'buffer zone' outside an abortion clinic and ordered to pay £20,000.

Keir Starmer’s free trade deal with the US is at risk over free speech after the US State Department warned there would be "no free trade without free speech" – but Whitehall officials have dismissed it as a bluff.

US Vice President J.D. Vance has slammed European leaders for "criminalising" free speech, opening the immigration floodgates and brutally clamping down on dissent in his landmark address to the Munich Security Conference.

Even Sally Rooney's usual army of fans are tiring of her hyper-right-on schtick, if the review of her latest novel in the Times is anything to go by, says Steven Tucker. Time to rediscover Ireland's real literature.

A Christian charity volunteer has pocketed £13,000 and received an apology from the police after arguing that her arrest for silently praying outside an abortion clinic was a breach of her human rights.

Covid-like restrictions should be used to stop the riots, according to Government adviser on political violence John Woodcock. We saw this coming, says Prof David Paton.

We've gone from pulling out all the stops during Covid to try to save the frail to contemplating euthanasia, where we'll bump them off. Shouldn't we at least have a vote on it, asks Nick Rendell.

Adam Smith-Connor, a British Army veteran, was fined for praying silently outside a Birmingham abortion clinic. He's refused to pay and now the case is going to court.

Whatever you think of abortion, the authoritarian way the WHO forces it on member states, with no respect for their independence or democratic self-governance, should ring alarm bells.