{"id":30844,"date":"2022-10-19T19:52:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T18:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=30844"},"modified":"2023-08-02T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:31:21","slug":"mps-outlaw-protests-against-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/mps-outlaw-protests-against-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs Outlaw Protests against Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ukmxBuol_Ng\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MPs Outlaw Protests against Abortion by Stephen Green\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ukmxBuol_Ng?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Watch our youtube video on the MPs Outlaw Protests against Abortion by Stephen Green (and do not forget to subscribe to our channel) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-19-192038.png\" alt=\"MPs at Parliament\" class=\"wp-image-30845\" width=\"570\" height=\"470\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Last night Members of Parliament voted to outlaw any form of protest outside abortion clinics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MPs voted on Tuesday 19th October 2022 in favour of installing buffer zones 150 meters around all abortion clinics and hospitals in England and Wales. 297 MPs voted in favour of the amendment while 110 rejected it, a majority of 187. Two hundred and forty MPs did not vote at all.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/abortion-buffer-zones-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>See how your MP voted (or abstained) HERE.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.petitions.net\/stop_abortion_buffer_zones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Sign our Petition against Buffer Zones HERE.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>MPs were allowed a free vote by their parties on the amendment, which meant they did not face pressure from party leaders to vote a certain way. It also meant the amendment was sure to pass; Labour and Liberal Democrats MPs always vote virtually en masse for abortion, while the Conservatives are always split.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the New Clause Says<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The new clause adds an \u2018Offence of interference with access to or provision of abortion services.\u2019<br>It says: \u2018(1) A person who is within a buffer zone and who interferes with any person\u2019s decision to access, provide, or facilitate the provision of abortion services in that buffer zone is guilty of an offence\u2019 and the penalty can be six months in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Interferes with\u2019 means \u2018(a) seeks to influence, (b) persistently, continuously or repeatedly occupies, (c) impedes or threatens, (d) intimidates or harasses, (e) advises or persuades, attempts to advise or persuade, or otherwise expresses opinion, (f) informs or attempts to inform about abortion services by any means, including, without limitation, graphic, physical, verbal or written means, or (g) sketches, photographs, records, stores, broadcasts, or transmits images, audio, likenesses or personal data of any person without express consent.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One MP ventured that someone driving a partner or a friend to an abortion clinic would be guilty of a crime if they merely asked &#8216;Are you sure you want to go through with this?&#8217; Guilty that is, if the car were within 150m of the clinic. If the car is outside that distance they can say what they like.  Naturally, <a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window\" https:=\"\" www.theguardian.com=\"\" world=\"\" 2022=\"\" oct=\"\" 18=\"\" mps-back-plans-for-abortion-clinic-buffer-zones-in-england-and-wales\"_blank\"=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>the Guardian <\/b><\/a>  claims the measure was necessary to protect women accessing abortion services from protests and harassment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clare Murphy, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, said \u2018Every year, around 100,000 women are treated by a clinic or hospital for an abortion that is targeted by anti-abortion protests.<br>These groups attempt to deter or prevent women from accessing abortion care by displaying graphic images of foetuses, calling women \u2018murderers\u2019, and hanging baby clothing around clinic entrances, causing women significant distress. Today\u2019s vote will bring an end to this activity.\u2019<br>Note \u2018abortion care\u2019. But the Bible confirms a baby in the womb, or \u2018foetus\u2019 in the language of the pro-abortion people, is a living human being. This is Elizabeth, 6 months pregnant with John the Baptist, speaking to Mary, the mother of an embryonic Jesus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Luke 1:44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that case, destroying that infant life is not \u2018care\u2019, it is murder, and the Bible condemns murder regardless of the means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deut 27:25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Labour MP Stella Creasy proposed the new rules. She said: \u2018Clause 11 is about abortion because, let us be honest, nobody is praying outside the places where people go to have a hip operation. Nobody offers rosary beads or dead foetuses outside the places people go when they have an ankle injury. This is about women accessing a very specific form of healthcare.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, indeed they are not. That is because those are genuine healthcare facilities; they are not places where people are being put to death, ripped out of what should be the safest place on God\u2019s earth, a place of nurture and growth, as the Bible says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Psalm 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother&#8217;s womb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Creasy said, \u2018It does not stop free speech on abortion. It does not stop people protesting. It simply says you shouldn\u2019t have the right to do this in the face of somebody, and very often these people are right up in front of people.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course sending protestors 150 metres (164 yards) away does stop them protesting. And the Bible says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prov 31:8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carla Lockhart, Democratic Unionist MP for Upper Bann in Ulster, said &#8216;Many women have been helped by volunteers outside abortion clinics. The right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) referred to Alina Dulgheriu, who wrote last week about her experience and how a lady helped her outside an abortion clinic. I will not repeat the story, but she explained that her \u201cbeautiful daughter would not be here today\u201d without support from a volunteer handing out a leaflet outside the clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Attack on Freedom of Speech<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Under Article 10 of the Human Right Act 1998, everyone has the right to freedom of expression in the UK.<br>\u2018This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.\u2019<br>The amendment to the Public Order Bill is an attack on freedom of speech. Ironically, the Opposition are claiming the entire Bill is an attack on freedom of speech.<br>Home Office minister Jeremy Quin said Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) were effective in protecting abortion clinics, and that a blanket ban on protests was a \u2018blunt approach and disproportionate given the existing powers that can and should be used\u2019. Mr Quin voted \u2018No\u2019, but as we have seen, Tory MPs were allowed to vote as they wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hospitals with Buffers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, police and local authorities are permitted to set up zones in response to complaints over protests.<br>In 2018, Ealing Council in west London established the country\u2019s first buffer zone, around a Marie Stopes clinic. Pro-life campaigners lost a legal challenge against it in 2019.<br>Five abortion clinics have buffer zones set up under PSPOs, which are local authority-led powers. Other councils have subsequently proposed similar schemes, with the latest in Bournemouth banning not just preaching but singing.<br>Similar legislation has been proposed in Scotland.<br>In June, Sottish minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said <a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window\" https:=\"\" www.dailyrecord.co.uk=\"\" news=\"\" politics=\"\" glasgow-could-introduce-first-abortion-27338078\"_blank\"=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>the Scottish government<\/b><\/a> would back a member\u2019s bill that would see 150-metre no-go areas placed outside health facilities so women could access services without fear, harassment or intimidation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Defaulters to Face the law<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sponsor of the amendment bill Stella Creasy, said anyone found guilty of breaching the buffer zone will face a summary conviction with a prison term of up to six months, an unlimited fine, or both.<br>The Bill still has several stages to clear before becoming law, including scrutiny in the House of Lords.<br>Christian Voice National Director, Stephen Green, said today: \u2018If this becomes law, which may God forbid, we shall need to test its limits by standing outside clinics, perhaps with placards with various Bible verses (it&#8217;s what we do) or just silently praying, or perhaps preaching in general. I do not mind being arrested for preaching or witnessing, and we can see how it runs in the courts. They have picked a fight with the God of heaven. Who can remain silent?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Innocent Blood brings Judgment<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/abort-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"No to Abortion\" class=\"wp-image-30846\" width=\"550\" height=\"470\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Bible says the shedding of innocent blood brings judgment:<br><strong>Numb 35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it<\/strong>.<br>If infanticide is legalised in a realm, the land indeed cannot be cleansed at all, and the judgment falls on the whole society. From the first recorded homicide in the Bible, we know that innocent blood cries to heaven:<br><strong>Gen 4:10 And he (God) said (to Cain), What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother&#8217;s blood crieth unto me from the ground<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read and Pray<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gen 09:06; Gen 25:22-23; Exod 04:11; Exod 21:22-24; Exod 23:07<\/strong><br>Pray for Godly leaders.<br><strong>Thank God that there were found men and women to stand for life on Tuesday<\/strong>.<br><strong>Pray the House of Lords will overturn the new clause. But above all, pray for an end to abortion in our land<\/strong>.<br><strong>Pray for an MP to introduce a Texas-style \u2018Heartbeat\u2019 law<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We appreciate your support &#8211; without it we can&#8217;t do our research and help inform your prayers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So click below to support or join Christian Voice and stand up for the King of kings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/P1OVTZ-gb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Join_donate_Logo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3940\" title=\"Join Today!\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Or fill in the form below to keep in touch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Click on the social media links below to share this post:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Members of Parliament voted to outlaw any form of protest outside abortion clinics. 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