What if I told you that the political persecution of pro-lifers is working its way into all aspects of government, making its way from across the pond to the United States? 

As a college student at Florida State University, I’m used to being judged for my pro-life views. Luckily, my school is a free speech campus, so I’m free to express my opinions – and the facts – openly, regardless of what people think of me.  

For a lot of pro-lifers, that’s becoming increasingly difficult.  

America tends to follow in Europe’s footsteps, as the National Review points out, and persecution of pro-lifers is no exception. While it’s true that the Clinton-era Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act has existed since 1994, it’s been increasingly wielded against pro-lifers in recent years. Some of that boldness comes from other Western countries doing the same thing. Persecution has gone from policing actions, like praying out loud, peacefully protesting, or singing, to policing thoughts, like silently praying.  

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The United Kingdom embraced this Orwellian concept when they arrested Isabel Vaughan-Spruce for silently praying outside an abortion facility. The police told her that “prayer is an offense.” 

Vaughan-Spruce had to undergo a lengthy court battle to defend her right to silently pray in public, and the U.K.’s government is continuing this outrageous attack on pro-lifers with new “buffer zones” in England and Wales starting Oct. 31. Similar laws will take place in Scotland on Sept. 24, according to the BBC. Still, U.K. abortion supporters are concerned that silent prayer WON’T be prosecuted under the law. The BBC reports that Heidi Stewart, head of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, is eager for the law to take effect so that all forms of harassment, including silent prayer, stop.  

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“She added that the government should remember the law was ‘designed to address the harm caused by so-called silent prayer,’” BCC reports. “And that ‘all forms of harassment’ should be prohibited.” 

Back home in America, it appears that New York has taken some notes from the United Kingdom.  

Currently, the state of New York is suing eleven pro-life pregnancy centers, accusing them of spreading “false and misleading” information about Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) treatment.  

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Abortion Pill Reversal works by prescribing progesterone, which helps prevent preborn children from starving after the first abortion pill. Progesterone is a naturally occurring hormone and has been used for decades to help prevent miscarriages and pre-term labor. Despite this, New York remains dedicated to attacking pro-life centers and claiming that APR treatment is baseless.   

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Unfortunately, discrimination against pro-lifers is not limited to the state level. Under the Biden Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has withheld 4.5 million dollars in grant money from the Oklahoma State Department of Health.  

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The reason?  

Biden’s HHS requires states receiving grant money to provide “non-directive” family planning counseling and abortion information to any patient who asks. Oklahoma said no. Pro-life states are literally being denied healthcare funding for refusing to facilitate abortions. That’s textbook discrimination. 

Thankfully, the pro-life movement has the power to keep fighting for life. We can continue to expose the abortion movement by explaining the science behind treatments like Abortion Pill Reversal. More immediately and most importantly, we can vote this November. Every president places their own political appointees in major federal agencies like the HHS. If former President Donald Trump wins in November, he can replace the corrupt officials who are trying to blackmail states into providing abortion information. The same goes for our leaders on the state and local levels. Without their government cronies to back them up, it will be harder for the pro-abortion lobby to discriminate against pro-lifers. 

But first, we must recognize what the United States and the United Kingdom are becoming – or our world may transform into a real-life dystopian fiction. 

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