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Pro-Life Grandma Arrested for Silently Holding Sign Outside Abortion Center

75-year-old grandmother Rose Docherty has been arrested a second time and criminally charged for holding a sign within 200m of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, reading:“Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.”In Scotland, “buffer zones” are enforced within 200m of every hospital, forbidding harassment, intimidation, and “influencing” of anyone seeking to access abortion services.Despite only having stood silently offering consensual conversation and not having approached any