75-year-old Rose Docherty of Scotland has been arrested for the second time for holding a sign in an Abortion “buffer zone.” The sign read “coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.”
Docherty said of her arrest, “Everybody has the right to engage in consensual conversation. I held my sign with love and compassion, inviting anyone who wants to chat, to do so — and stood peacefully, not approaching anyone. I should not be treated as a criminal for inviting people to chat with me — lending a listening ear. Conversation is not forbidden on the streets of Glasgow. And yet, this is the second time I have been arrested for doing just that.”
