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\"Marie<\/a>
Marie Stopes abortion facility in Ealing. Inside Ealing PSPO Buffer Zone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Parliament wants to put a \u2018Buffer Zone\u2019 around every abortion centre and NHS hospital in England and Wales. \u00a0Meanwhile, five local authorities in England have placed their own buffer zones around abortion centres in their area.<\/p>\n

Five Buffer Zones, five days in the working week? The Buffer Zone Challenge was an obvious opportunity to stand for Jesus Christ in this United Kingdom, at all five abortion facilities in five days, 6th to 10th Feb. 2023.<\/p>\n

No Buffer Zones, no Buffer Zone Challenge. If, as Parliament wants, loads of Buffer Zones, they can have loads of Buffer Zone Challenge!<\/p>\n

Support the Buffer Zone Challenge HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sign our Petition against Buffer Zones HERE.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2Sam 10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Buffer Zone Challenge so far<\/h2>\n

Christian Voice stands for Biblical values in law and public policy. We oppose limits on Christian freedom of speech and we stand for life. The Buffer Zone Challenge started as a protest against abortion. The Lord has led us rather into showcasing the stupidity of the buffer zones, praying and showing it is legal to preach inside them, and if the Lord so leads, against them.<\/p>\n

Read our previous buffer zone article HERE<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Monday 6th February, this writer attended Marie Stopes abortion facility inside the Ealing Buffer Zone. I spoke, not against abortion, but against buffer zones. That is perfectly legal under the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO)<\/strong><\/a> within the buffer zone.<\/p>\n

\"British<\/a>
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (sic) building in Ophir Road, Bournemouth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Staff came out and were unfriendly. They claimed to have called the police. The Police failed to turn up in a timely fashion, so the Ealing Buffer Zone Challenge was considered done and came to an end.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday at Twickenham I reported in, and about, the Buffer Zone and gave a brief Gospel message. No staff came out of the BPAS facility, which was some fifty yards away, and no police or council staff arrived.<\/p>\n

One aspect of the reporting was on the words which, according to the PSPO<\/strong><\/a>, one is not allowed to utter within the zone (see below). We also considered how many verses of the King James Bible that would proscribe. The KJV is the Bible which King Charles will be given at his coronation in May. All the PSPO\u2019s have the same forbidden words. Twickenham has an extra one (qv).<\/p>\n

Lawful to preach the Gospel!<\/h2>\n

On Wednesday, in Bournemouth, I was greeted by around four police officers. I set up on the green opposite the BPAS facility, reported on the Buffer Zone as before and gave a brief Gospel message. View the whole thing on YouTube HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The police officers heard every word and found nothing contrary to the PSPO, which you will find HERE<\/strong><\/a>. They heard, they saw, and we all parted on amicable terms. The abortionists and their supporters were left clueless as to how to react. READ this revealing account in the Bournemouth Echo<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In short, we established it is entirely lawful to preach the Gospel inside the Buffer Zones. So that is what we need to do:<\/p>\n

\"Marie<\/a>
Marie Stopes Abortion Facility in Wynnstay Grove, Fallowfield, Manchester<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?<\/b><\/p>\n

On Thursday, in Manchester, council employees as well as police formed the welcoming party. Adrian, the council chap, asked me to conduct my presentation, still in the buffer zone, but not in the actual cul-de-sac containing the Marie Stopes facility. Being a very reasonable man, and not wishing to be charged with interfering with \u2018service users\u2019 or staff, I agreed. It appears buffer zones divide into primary and secondary areas. Who knew?\u00a0 PSPO HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Strange contrast<\/h2>\n

There is a strange contrast between claims from the abortionists that they are merely providing \u2018medical care\u2019 or a \u2018medical procedure\u2019 or ‘reproductive health care’ and comments from Dr Rupa Huq MP and others that women feel distressed by pro-life counsellors outside abortion centres. Pro-lifers can \u2018bring on all these feelings of guilt and shame\u2019, she has said.<\/p>\n

What other \u2018medical procedure\u2019 does that? If you have a tooth extracted, or a hip replaced, do you feel \u2018guilt and shame?\u2019 Could it be that what MSI and BPAS are offering is rather more serious than \u2018medical care\u2019? Perhaps it is their \u2018product\u2019 itself which can leave a woman distressed for the rest of her life?<\/p>\n

It appears the whole debate revolves around a question never asked, let alone answered: ‘Is that a human being in a mother\u2019s womb?’<\/p>\n

The prohibited Biblical words<\/h2>\n
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Birmingham Buffer Zone notice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With KJV equivalents in brackets):
\nAbortion: 0 occurrences. You may say \u2018child sacrifice\u2019 would be a KJV equivalent. If we were in a buffer zone, we could not possibly comment.
\nBaby (or babe): 6 occurrences.
\nBabies (or babes): 9 occurrences.
\nMum (or mother): 297 occurrences.
\nWomb (unique to Twickenham): 69 occurrences.
\nSoul (seriously): 432 occurrences.
\nKill: 119 occurrences.
\n(\u2018Slay\u2019 would add another 113.)
\nMurder: 9 occurrences.
\nHell: 54 occurrences (many from the Lord Jesus!).<\/p>\n

That is over 1,000 verses from the KJV a preacher is not allowed to say in the Buffer Zone. Looking for positives, that leaves preachers 30,000 more. \u2018Sin\u2019 is not a proscribed word, for a start. Or ‘repent’.<\/p>\n

But we say nowhere, certainly in a nation with a Christian constitution, can be allowed to become a no-go area for any portion of the word of God.<\/p>\n

Buffer Zones are ridiculous<\/h2>\n

So the Holy Spirit has taken me in a different direction to how I was thinking before. I have shown the Buffer Zones are ridiculous and also shown that it is legal to preach within them. (So long as you don\u2019t quote their forbidden words!)<\/p>\n

\"BPAS<\/a>
BPAS Birmingham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Friday, in Birmingham, praise God we had our first engagement with a hostile member of the public.\u00a0 This is where Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested for appearing silently to pray.\u00a0No police and no council people arrived.<\/p>\n

I stood just inside the Buffer Zone boundary on Station Road to speak about buffer zones, then moved two paces to my right to preach against abortion.\u00a0 That is how crazy the law is.\u00a0 But it is clearly designed to prevent pro-life witness, at the abortion sites themselves, to women contemplating abortion. Download the PSPO HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am very grateful to all who have come along to observe or support. Thank God for a successful Buffer Zone Challenge with no breaches and no arrest. The abortionists were left flat-footed. Things, we believe, are changing in the heavenly realm. And as St David said, let us \u2018Do the Little Things\u2019 (\u2018Gwnewch y pethau bychain\u2019). Because, when we do the little things which only we can do, we show our prayer is serious and we can leave the big things, the miracles, to the Almighty.<\/p>\n

PRAYER<\/h2>\n

READ<\/b>: Gen 4:10-11; Exod 23:7; Numb 35:33; Deut 18:10, 27:25; 2Kings 3:27; Job 31:15; Psalm 106:37-38, 139; Prov 24:11, 31:8; Ezek 16:36-38; Amos 1:13; Micah 6:7; Mark 10:14; Luke 1:41-44; Gal 1:15.<\/p>\n

PRAY<\/b>: Please pray for the grace and protection of the Lord of hosts in the mighty name of Jesus. Pray for his hand to be over the Buffer Zone Challenge. Pray the Lord raises up others for the Buffer Zone Challenge. It is not necessary to do them all, or to do them all in a week. Make a record of yourself being there. Pray also for pro-life pavement counsellors that the Lord will add to their number and give them wisdom, power of the Holy Spirit as well as the love and grace which motivates them in the first place. Pray for the women going in, and those prevented from making an informed choice (in a God-fearing nation there would be no such ‘choice’ to be made) because of the buffer zones. And pray for those in authority, our MPs and Peers, the Councils and the Police. May God send his fear and his wisdom into their hearts.<\/p>\n

See our previous articles:<\/p>\n

The Buffer Zone Challenge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Abortion Prayer Charges Dropped<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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