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Fox News: UK man arrested for praying outside abortion clinic praises VP Vance for bringing attention to case

Started by riky, February 16, 2025, 07:02:00 PM

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UK man arrested for praying outside abortion clinic praises VP Vance for bringing attention to case

Vice President Vance was praised by Adam Smith-Connor, who expressed gratitude after the VP highlighted his free speech case in a speech to European officials.

                   
                       

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login left U.K. army veteran Adam Smith-Connor "incredibly surprised" after his story of being arrested for silently praying outside an abortion clinic became the focus of a defense of free speech and religious liberty on the international stage over the weekend.

"I had no idea it was going to happen," Smith-Connor said Sunday on "Fox & Friends Weekend."

"I'm a physiotherapist. I was treating a patient. I just had a few minutes' gap between patients... and [I learned] the vice president of America was talking about [my] case, so it was incredibly surprising, and I'm very grateful to him for highlighting this case."

Smith-Connor was found guilty of breaching the local government's Public Spaces Protection Order in October, nearly two years after standing outside an abortion facility with his head bowed in silent prayer.

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He was ordered to pay £9,000 (approximately $11,330 USD) to his prosecutors as a result.

Vance highlighted the case You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login 'Soviet'-style European censorship in an address to European leaders at the Munich Security Conference last Friday. 

"The backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular, in the crosshairs," the vice president said.

"A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith-Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an Army veteran with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes, not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own."

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Lois McLatchie Miller, senior legal communications officer at Alliance Defending Freedom International, informed Smith-Connor of Vance's acknowledgment through a phone call. 

She told "You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login" co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy that ADF International is supporting his legal defense as they seek to appeal the judgment later this year.

"This intervention from Vice President Vance highlighting the case really exposes that this is the worst example of censorship in the West right now. If we cannot think thoughts in our heads on certain British streets, we have no hope for freedom anywhere else."


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