In the coming weeks, a 48-year-old charity volunteer from Worcestershire named Isabel Vaughan-Spruce is scheduled to walk into Birmingham Magistrates' Court. She will answer for something no court in a free country should ever have to weigh: what she was thinking while standing quietly on a public street. She carried no sign, spoke to no one, and blocked no door. Even so, the Crown Prosecution Service has charged her with standing outside an abortion clinic in a way that intended, or was reckless as to whether it would, influence another person's decision. . .
