The anti-freedom extremism of England's "buffer zone" law has just become even clearer.

A retired medical scientist is being put in the dock in a landmark freedom of speech case after she stood near an abortion clinic holding the sign: 'Here to talk if you want to'.

Livia Tossici-Bolt, 63, is accused of breaching a 'buffer zone' set up in Bournemouth that bans protests and 'expression of approval or disapproval of abortion'.

Ms Tossici-Bolt, who worked at Southampton's University Hospital Trust as a medical researcher, will appear at Bournemouth Magistrates' Court on March 6.

She has refused to pay a fixed penalty notice issued by the local council in June 2023 and denies her 'here to talk if you want to' sign was inflammatory and believes her right to freedom of expression is under threat.

Several people approached her to take up her offer of a conversation about matters going on in their lives, Livia claims.

The prosecution is being brought by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council who are seeking to enforce a legal ban on any demonstration within around 500ft of an abortion clinic in England and Wales. They declined to comment.

But Ms Tossici-Bolt insists that holding the sign in the zone, and chatting to people, cannot be a breach. 

She said: 'I shouldn't be treated like a criminal just for this. There's nothing wrong with two adults engaging in a consensual conversation on the street'. 

Unborn children as young as 12 weeks gestation have a brain and nervous system which can experience pain. This has been known since 2020, when experts in fetal pain research agreed that a preponderance of evidence suggests that pain perception does not require the cortex. 

This has become understood thanks to research connected to fetal surgery. This is surgical intervention performed on unborn infants in the womb (in utero) to treat diseases and birth defects of the infant prior to birth.

Fetal treatment centres around the world possess the expertise to treat a wide variety of previously debilitating birth defects including but not limited to amniotic band syndrome, bronchopulmonary sequestration of the lung, congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, congenital high airway obstruction syndrome, fetal anemia, lower urinary tract obstruction, mediastinal teratoma, neck mass, sacrococcygeal teratoma, spina bifida, twin anemia-polycythemia sequence, twin reversed arterial perfusion sequence, and twin-twin transfusion syndrome.

The success of fetal surgery, however, would not be what it is today without concomitant advances in another medical specialty: anesthesia and pain management. Shockingly, prior to the late 1980s, surgeries on newborns less than one month old (neonates) were mostly performed without anesthesia because, their cries notwithstanding, neonates were thought to lack the neurological maturity to perceive pain. Fortunately, in 1987 Drs. Anand and Hickey published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that disabused the field of pediatrics of this cruel practice. They documented the growing body of research that demonstrated painful procedures in both preterm and full-term neonates elicit significant negative physiological changes which also had potentially long-term negative implications. Hence, they recommended changing the standard of care in favour of providing local and general anesthesia to all neonates during invasive procedures.

There was still some question about the need to provide anesthesia to children in utero, however, because the intrauterine environment contains a group of endocrine neuroinhibitors and was believed to provide natural anesthesia to the fetus. In 2001 this question was definitively answered for fetuses 25 weeks and older by Dr. Gitau and colleagues who documented the physiologic responses of unborn children who required in-utero blood transfusions. They found that unborn children who received their transfusions through the placental cord insertion site which lacks nerves had no increase in physiologic stress hormones or markers. In contrast, unborn children who received their transfusions into their hepatic vein, which required piercing their abdomen with a needle, had significant increases in their stress hormones and markers.

By 2020, experts in fetal pain research agreed that a preponderance of evidence suggests that pain perception does not require the cortex. Consequently, unborn children as young as 12 weeks gestation have a brain and nervous system which can experience pain and produce an immediate non-reflexive pain response.

Anesthesiologists at fetal therapy centers are now keenly aware of the importance of pain and sedation management for both mothers and their unborn children during fetal surgery. These anesthesiologists play a crucial role in the risk assessment of both patients, facilitate multidisciplinary coordination, and maintain maternal and fetal homeostasis which optimises conditions for their surgical colleagues

The madness of anti-life trans mania continues to eat into the British body politic.

The surg in online gambling addiction has prompted a plan to urge doctors to ask patients about gambling.

Strongly pro-life Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written a stunning letter celebrating the re-election of Donald J. Trump as the President of the United States, seeing it as a triumph against the globalist agenda.

In this letter, released on Sunday, February 2, 2025, Archbishop Viganò praises the anti-abortion actions already announced by the new President, including the release of the pro-life campaigners jailed by Biden's weaponised Justice Department.

The letter also warns of the Deep State and Deep Church, which he believes collude to undermine sovereignty and Catholic teachings through woke ideology, mass immigration, and engineered crises. He condemns the UN, WHO, and WEF for promoting population control and accuses Catholic bishops of financial and moral corruption. He urges Catholics to reject false obedience, defend truth, and resist evil forces aiming to dismantle natural and divine law. The former papal nuncio to the United States calls for a “counter-revolution of common sense” rooted in faith and action.

Here's the piece of the letter of most interest to pro-lifers:

Today is Candlemas. This often forgotten festival was once one of the most important holy days in all Christendom.

Candlemas, also known as the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or the Feast of the Holy Encounter, commemorates the presentation of Jesus at the Temple by Joseph and Mary. It is based upon the account of the presentation of Jesus in Luke 2:22–40.

The feast falls on 2nd February, which is traditionally the 40th day of and the conclusion of the Christmas–Epiphany season.

While it is customary for Christians in some countries to remove their Christmas decorations on Twelfth Night (Epiphany Eve), those in other Christian countries historically remove them after Candlemas. On Candlemas, many Christians (especially Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and some mainline Protestant denominations including Lutherans, Anglicans and Methodists) also take their candles to their local church, where they are blessed and then used for the rest of the year. These blessed candles serve as a symbol of Jesus Christ, who is referred to as the Light of the World.

One of the true clerical heroes of our times, Bishop Ricahrd Williamson, has died.