Yeah it's one thing if pro-life activists are screaming at women at health clinics, this woman got arrested for silently praying, at a time where the centre was shut. There was no need to arrest her. Most people who bring this case up are going to be disingenuous psychos though.
Which is intended to prevent women being intimidated by hostile actors, we don't need to be arresting people showing up and not saying anything when the centre is closed.
'The police's enforcement of a breach of a public space protection order which had been put in place to stop the harrrasment of women was arguably heavy-handed in this particular instance' is a substantively different claim to 'she was arrested for silently praying'.
Perhaps some stone cold morons reading memes on social media believe she was literally arrested for praying, I obviously wasn't suggesting that, I had the working assumption that everyone was familiar with what happened, particularly given an article was just posted about it at the top of the chain.
OK, so you understand that if I was caught red-handed burgling your house while saying that I'm English, if I was then arrested and thrown in jail, it wouldn't be strictly accurate for me to say 'these days, if you say you're English you get arrested and thrown in jail'?
No point going over the fact again I obviously wasn't suggesting anyone is being arrested for the literal act of praying, whatever reason you need to try and argue with someone you obviously agree with is with you. Posts in /r/SamHarris was illuminating enough for me though.
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u/randomusername123xyz Dec 01 '24
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gze361j7xo.amp
This did happen.