Pro-life demonstrators have been exonerated in a country where free speech is less defined than in the United States of America.
A District judge in England has dismissed all charges against Andrew Stephenson and Kathryn Sloane who demonstrated near an abortion clinic while holding signs showing aborted babies. Both were arrested in June 2011.
Stephenson was interviewed on BBC and stated he finds it difficult to understand why abortionists disagree with people showing the reality of what they do, which is killing a baby in the womb.
"We stand there very peacefully. We don't shout at anybody," Stephenson says. "We don't call people murderers. All we do is present the information. Why do the pictures like that make people so angry?"
Stephenson's attorneys argued the pictures were not threatening, not abusive and not insulting. One of the attorneys, Andrea Williams of the Christian Legal Centre, says that is the test.
"I think it ought not to need clarification in many ways," states Williams. "I think the problem here has been the application of the law. Police officers on the ground think that because those signs perhaps cause some people to be upset that they should then use their power to arrest."
She adds that the prosecutors were also overzealous, which resulted in prosecution.