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Is J.D. Vance signaling a new era for free speech?

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The fallout continues from Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference. Criticizing Europe over what he sees as the retreat of free speech, he singled out the case of Adam Smith-Connor in the UK as something that worries him about the direction that Britain is heading in. Smith-Connor was arrested in 2022 and prosecuted for breaching an abortion buffer-zone in Bournemouth.

Freddy Gray speaks to Paul Coleman at the ARC Conference in London. Paul is executive director of ADF International, a faith-based legal advocacy organization that has been advocating for Smith-Connor. What is the truth behind abortion buffer-zones? Is this part of a wider “censorship industrial complex?” And does Vance’s criticism signal a new era of free speech?

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