CV NEWS FEED // Pro-life protestors who were arrested in Northern Ireland last October for violating UK buffer zone laws are speaking out amidst their ongoing court battle.
“I believe I have done absolutely nothing wrong,” Claire Brennon stated in a recent Live Action report: “If the courts find that I have and decide to convict me then we are in a very dark place indeed.”
Brennan was arrested along with fellow pro-lifer, David Hall, last autumn for praying in an alleged buffer zone outside of Causeway Hospital in Coleraine. According to the report, police officers approached Brennon while she was praying the rosary and holding a pro-life sign that said “Pray to End Abortion.”
In a video of the incident, Brennon stated: “Officer, you have a duty to uphold the law, I have a duty to uphold God’s law. This is where we pray. We are not committing any offences.”
The officer then told her that “in the eye of the law,” she was, in fact, committing an offence, and further accused her of “harassment, alarm, and distress.”
Brennon responded: “The law of the land stops me from upholding the law of God… We pray for the babies who will be imminently killed in this hospital.”
The officer and his colleague later arrested Brennon and Hall and charged them, without a police interview, with violating the UK’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act, according to Christian Concern.
The protesters had their first hearing on July 29, wherein they both entered a not guilty plea.
