(Townhall) Five pro-life leaders, who protested inside a D.C. abortion clinic, are facing over a decade in federal prison after a jury trial found the co-defendants guilty of violating a Clinton-era law that forbids interference with so-called “reproductive health care services.”
For forming a pro-life “blockade” on Oct. 22, 2020, that “obstruct[ed] access” to the Washington Surgi-Clinic (WSC), an abortion shop in the nation’s capital that advertises that babies “up to 27-plus weeks” of pregnancy are aborted there, Lauren Handy, Will Goodman, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, and Herb Geraghty were convicted last Tuesday on charges brought forth by Biden’s Justice Department: felony conspiracy against civil rights and Freedom of Access to Clinical Entrances (FACE) Act violations.
DOJ attorneys prosecuting the pro-life activists allege that the co-defendants “engaged in a conspiracy” by mobilizing on Facebook beforehand, an event that the mostly Christian “co-conspirators” organized as a faith-based “rescue” to save babies from being slaughtered. (Read More)
