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US meddling in UK’s domestic affairs highlighted in the trial of an anti-abortionist

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LIVIA Tossici-Bolt, above, ordered today to pay costs of £20,000 towards the costs of a case brought against her by Bournemouth’s local authority after she breached a buffer zone at an abortion clinic, could impact on any trade deals the UK is hoping to cement with America.

Why? Because US anti-abortion fanatics, including Catholic Vice-President JD (“Jabbering Dipshit”) Vance have taken an inordinate amount of interest in the case, and have helped fund her defence.

JD Vance. Image via YouTube

Vance, above, according to Reuters, Vance confronted Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House on the issue of buffers zones, and said in February he feared free speech in Britain was “in retreat”.

Writing for The Guardian today, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, said:

Ominously, this isn’t the first time the US has invoked the UK’s abortion clinic buffer zone legislation. In a speech at the Munich Security Conference in February, Vance made the false claim that people who live within safe access zones had been sent letters by the Scottish government warning them about praying within their homes. Those comments were dangerous scaremongering, and were condemned as such, while this latest intervention has been blasted as “unjustifiable interference” by the former UK supreme court judge Lord Sumption.

She added:

There were reports this week that the US was intending to use these spurious concerns over free speech as leverage in trade negotiations, but the business secretary has denied this. Nevertheless, they form part of an increasingly alarming mood music regarding reproductive rights in the UK.

Tossici-Bolt was taken to court after refusing to pay a fixed fine for breaching an order that has banned protests in an area around the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) clinic since 2022 over concerns that women who attended were being subjected to harassment and intimidation.

Following a trial last month, Judge Orla Austin convicted Tossici-Bolt at Poole Magistrates’ Court of breaching the order, saying the activist was not lawfully exercising her right to freedom of expression.

Tossici-Bolt was given a conditional discharge, meaning she must not commit further offences for two years, and was ordered to pay the legal costs of a case the judge said had taken “considerable” resources from the local authority.

Trump is moving Americans ‘closer to God’

Trump in full-on Bible-thumping mode. Image via YouTube

Meanwhile, it’s reported here that Donald Trump’s bimbo-esque Press Secretary has claimed that he is partly responsible for a “spiritual revival” in America and is helping people move “closer to God.”

Karoline Leavitt, a practicing Roman Catholic, said that evidence of renewed faith, especially within younger generations, was becoming more visible and that it was a “beautiful sight.”

Since returning to office, Trump has signed multiple executive orders on issues important to many Christians, including banning biological men in women’s sports and pardoning pro-life protesters.

Trump’s tariffs will impact US Bible sales

Ironically, tariffs imposed on China are set to send the costs of Bibles soaring in the US. China sells a lot of Bibles to America. A printing company in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou shipped close to 120,000 Bibles to the US in 2004. Included were thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible.

MinistryWatch reported in February that Bibles printed and bound in China (PRC) will face a 10 percent tariff imposed by President Donald Trump on exports from the Asian industrial giant. That was before the piggy-eyed Orange Horror today announced new tariffs on Chinese goods.

Jeff Crosby, president of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, told MinistryWatch via email that without exemption:

Consumers and religious organizations will face higher prices, and churches, schools, ministries and non-profit organizations will have fewer resources to educate others and connect them to God’s word, the Bible.

Educate? The word he should be using is indocrinate.

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14 responses to “US meddling in UK’s domestic affairs highlighted in the trial of an anti-abortionist”

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    Anonymous

    If there’s anyone in Trump’s circle behaving like an Old Testament character it’s Elon Musk.
    He’s a serial adulterer, and he regularly gets stoned.

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    Broga

    Trump is so enclosed in his personal fantasy bubble where he is omnipotent that he has lost touch with reality. Meanwhile, as the consequences of his racketeering hit the pockets of the suckers he conned they may now be having another look at what they have done.

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    stephenharvie

    None of these forced-birthers give a damn about the children.

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    Matilda

    Alderhey Hospital is one of the top paediatric hospitals in Europe and probably beyond. A US catholic group sent over members to demonstrate outside it in 2018 when parents of baby Alfie Evans were told by his paediatricians that there was no hope of recovery and wanted to terminate treatment and parents objected. I know 2 of the staff, both very devout x-tians, who had to run the gauntlet of those verbally agressive demonstrators daily. One is a senior pharmacist who works there so her hubby can pastor a fundy homophobic church which can’t afford to pay him. The other was my daughter, a junior doctor, 24weeks pregnant. I was indignant, angry and worried on their behalf that these US agitators were there, how dare they come to thousands of miles to do that! (They also came to Gt Ormond St Hospital when another terminally ill baby’s parents objected to treatment being stopped by world-class doctors there.)

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    malcolmjdodd

    If I had been the judge, I would have had her shackled and sent to El Salvador!

    One thing, above so many others that make me angry, is the blatant display of ‘I-am-an-ignoramus’ baubles or dress like crosses and head scarves, these are so often the people who have demonstrated that they are free of morals and humanity, who have never CHOSEN a religion (if asked how did you choose your religion, will reply ‘I was born a xtian/mohammedan …’) and think that they have the right to inflict on us their fantasies and puerile nonsense.

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    Broga

    So Trump is moving Americans “closer to God”. That should not be difficult as Americans are even more susceptible than we are in the UK to being moved “closer to God.” Every morning early on the BBC, any kind of rational thinking or analysis is abandoned in favour of the most ardent fairy tales and acceptance of the illusionary “truth” of the bible. For a thousand years scientific thinking was blocked in favour of biblical truth.

    On pain of punishment, or death, belief that the sun moved round the Earth was demanded. That the BBC still provides a place for this drivel is a disgrace and a waste of our licence money.

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      malcolmjdodd

      Broga
      The BBC’s obsession with and promotion of the baloney that is religion, is not only disgraceful and a waste of our licence money, it is an embarrassment that the world’s most respected broadcaster should be the apostle.

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        Broga

        I don’t accept that the preachers actually believe what they are preaching. Just look at some of the statements they make. They are fairly intelligent people. What they may well be doing in pursuit of a career with some modest fame and access to the media is ensure they do not think about what they are saying. Their options of achieving this in other careers may be unlikely.

        Can they offer any evidence for the existence of the God they espouse as do so many other religions with other Gods. There are billions of stars in the Milky Way and billions of galaxies. Where do they figure in God’s creation of the Earth and his love of the brutish killer homo sapiens – currently, thanks to Trump – removing protection from the environment.

        Allowing a debate or at least some questions with the preachers and an atheist e.g. Richard Dawkins would provide some interest instead of the dreary nonsense that is served up. Will that happen? Not bloody likely! They preachers have to be protected, only one side heard, and assumed to be valid.

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          malcolmjdodd

          My children had no formal contact with religion and grew up as nullifidians, as have their children; they all concur that there were never more than one or two religious students in their Lincolnshire secondary school classes, unfortunately, most of those were mohammedans who will be part of the ruling cult in the UK in a few decades.

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            Broga

            Just heard a bit of discussion between two clergy which indicates perfectly why they can’t be trusted in their opinions. One was insisting that women shoud not be allowed to become bishops as this would be a spiritual offence and against God’s wishes. How he knew this wasn’t mentioned.

            The other insisted that God wanted women to be equal with men and therefore they must be allowed to be bishops. The avalanche of paedophile bishops revealed recentlly got the most fleeting of mentions.

            I thought women were allowed to become bishops?

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              malcolmjdodd

              One would think that their 13.6 billion-year-old boss has had enough time to refine and give consistent advice to the staff.

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                Broga

                Malcolm: Nice one. The boss man, despite being omnipotent and omniscient, seems to lack even the most basic of management skills.

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              Matilda

              If you ask any female vicar about their experiences of misogyny within the CofE., they’ll all recount some. My daughter applied to train for the priesthood and was encouraged to enter a seminary that had just had to ditch its male-only status. She managed to avoid that, she said she couldn’t spend 3 yrs as a token female arguing against those misogynists. She’s been physically shoved out of the way by a male priest who thought he should be ahead of her as they processed up the aisle. Note that it was a female bishop who denounced Trump in January. And it was another female bishop who publicly denounced Welby over his cover up of pedophile priests – and she will have had to swear an oath of loyalty to her superiors at ordination. I think about 40% of vicars are female, chuck them out and the old CofE would really be in more trouble than it is.

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    Broga

    Bloody hell! And these are “spiritual leaders.”

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