The Alliance Defending Freedom legal advocacy group suggests that simply “having a conversation about abortion in your OWN HOME while the windows are open” could now be a criminal offense in Scotland.

A 74-year-old woman has become the first person to be charged under Scotland’s new abortion buffer zones law. The quiet, unthreatening pensioner was handcuffed and detained under new rules that came into force late last year, setting a 200-metre zone around abortion clinics in which “protests”—including silent prayer—are not allowed.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance specifically mentioned this law in his Munich speech last Friday, highlighting it as an example of the European “enemy within.”

At the time, Britain’s mainstream politicians and newspapers were quick to dismiss the claim that private prayer within people’s own homes was banned inside the ‘buffer zone,’ saying the legislation actually only covered actions causing “harassment, alarm or distress” to others. This wasn’t exactly a gotcha response, given that actions within private homes could still fall under the ban if they were seen or heard by others.

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