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A Scottish grandmother has been arrested for breaking thought crime laws that abortion activists say don’t exist.

Police arrested, then charged, Rose Docherty around 2 pm on 19 February for breaching Scotland’s abortion buffer zones, with her silent prayers and quiet protest.

The 74-year-old was denounced to police after being spotted standing quietly on public property across from the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

According to the police report, Docherty was standing on Hardgate Road, with what had been reported to them as a group of protestors.

Hardly a Threat

Video of her arrest filmed by the Scottish Family Party shows Docherty standing alone.

Although the road sits outside the QEU Hospital precinct, the road is part of a 200-metre zone that bans pro-life prayer, and counselling for both parents and the pre-born.

As the official Scottish Government map shows, at least seven housing estates are also devoured by the anti-life “don’t pray, don’t protest” buffer zone’s blue cloud of death.

Lies

Police arresting Docherty unintentionally painted a clown face on abortion activists.

Activists had spent the better part of a week smearing critics as misinformation spreaders.

Chief on their hitlist was United States Vice President J.D. Vance for pointing out that the U.K. and Europe’s “thought crime buffer zones” were evidence “free speech was in retreat”.

Rose Docherty’s recent arrest justified every iota of Vance’s criticisms of the overreach. pic.twitter.com/3A5f9cxBnl

— Rod Lampard (@rod_lampard) February 24, 2025

Vance even cited formal information the Scottish government sent to residents within the buffer zone in September.

The letter strongly implied that prayer within housing estates swallowed up by the abortion protection zone could be considered a crime.

Word for word, the paragraph reads:

“Activities in private places (such as a house) within the area between the protected premises and the boundary zone could be an offence if they can be seen or heard within the zone, and are done intentionally, or recklessly.”

Additionally, the government encourages people to actively seek out, and report pro-life prayers, protests, counselling, conversations, and/or content.

Twisting Facts

Stretching in an attempt to catch Vance out on his facts, Scottish Newspaper The National issued an embarrassing grab for a “gotcha moment”, shouting, “No arrests had been made under the buffer zone.”

When they eventually reported on Docherty’s arrest, rather than acknowledge the war on free speech, The National argued that “US groups were waging war on Scotland’s pre-born termination buffer zones.”

The National was accommodating false claims made by Greens MP Gillian Mackay, who tried to frame Vance’s criticisms as a personal attack on “her abortion rights”.

Not satisfied with making Vance’s comments all about her, Mackay said she had written to the US Ambassador demanding they correct Vance’s “misinformation“.

Vance was arguing against the war on free speech, not targeting The Greens demand to treat a child conceived in the womb like an STD. https://t.co/tiudtZOVI6

— Rod Lampard (@rod_lampard) February 24, 2025

Spamming X, Mackay dug in, expanding on earlier assertions that Vance’s comments were “grossly misleading“.

The “abortion is healthcare” Greens member for Central Scotland hypocritically accused Vance of putting lives at risk by “promoting lies”.

Here was a member of the Scottish parliament suggesting that “more needed to be done” to keep pro-life prayers and counsellors away from those she’s convinced have a right to turn the womb into a tomb.

All of this was said, while touting terms like “human rights” and “healthcare”.

Distraction from the Real Crisis

Challenging the Greens MP, Alliance Defending Freedom communications officer Lois McLatchie Miller shed light on Mackay’s militancy.

Miller rightly pointed out that Mackay had originally authored the 2024 bill creating buffer zones around pregnancy termination mills.

Mackay had also rejected amendments which would have ensured “protection for ‘reasonable behaviour’ – like silent prayer.”

Rose Docherty does not stand alone.

In reply to The National, Lous McLathie Miller said, “The National’s attempt to mischaracterise Rose Docherty’s actions as anything short of peaceful and charitable shows a disgraceful lack of journalistic integrity.

“Deflecting attention to overseas distracts from the real issues Scotland faces regarding a skyrocketing abortion rate – a symptom of women in crisis.”

This is misinformation.

THIS is the sign Rose was arrested for holding today 👇 pic.twitter.com/JCOlqP3Iu7

— Lois McLatchie Miller (@LoisMcLatch) February 19, 2025

Miller’s great point doesn’t go far enough.

Mackay’s frantic, militant defence of her own abortion laws isn’t just a deflection — it’s projection.

The Scottish Greens’ reactiveness doesn’t just betray arrogance; they reveal a real fear of people waking up to the true intention and target of these laws.

If two patients enter a hospital, and only one leaves alive because the second has been denied the right to life, we can neither call that healthcare nor the protection of human rights.

The brute fact is that the Greens are claiming Vance is guilty of misinformation, when their own very ideology is built upon abusing language to silence dissent and, in this case, justify mass murder on an industrial scale.

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Republished with thanks to Caldron Pool.