Pro-Life Activists Found Guilty of Violating FACE Act, Conspiracy Charges for 2020 Incident at D.C. Abortion Clinic

[Michie]

Five pro-life activists have been found guilty on charges of conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act in connection with a 2020 “rescue action” they undertook at a Washington, D.C.–based abortion clinic.

The incident began when pro-life activist Lauren Handy made an appointment at the Washington Surgi-Clinic under a fake name. When clinic staff opened the door, pro-life activists rushed from the building’s emergency stairwell into the facility, where they formed a blockade for more than three hours until authorities removed them. The incident allegedly led to an altercation that left a clinic employee hospitalized with an ankle injury.

Prosecutors accused Handy, William Goodman, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, and Herb Geraghty of violating the FACE Act, which is a federal law that prohibits the use of physical force, threats of force, or the intentional damaging of property to prevent someone from obtaining or providing abortion services.

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Pro-Life Activists Found Guilty of Violating FACE Act, Conspiracy Charges for 2020 Incident at D.C. Clinic | National Review

‘This potential sentencing of 11 years in prison is a blatant abuse of political power against pro-lifers,’ said Live Action founder Lila Rose.

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[RileyG]

Lord have mercy

 

[The Barbarian]

Stuff like this is what is erasing all the gains pro-life people made in winning over Americans. For the first time in decades, pro-abortion is gaining support.

Abortion

With respect to the abortion issue, would you consider yourself to be pro-choice or pro-life? Do you think abortions should be legal under any circumstances, legal only under certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances?

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[Sword of the Lord]

When you force your way into buildings and injure employees, that's not sound strategy.

 

[The Barbarian]

When you force your way into buildings and injure employees, that's not sound strategy.

Tends to turn people away from your cause. Violent abolitionists, before the Civil War, did great damage to the anti-slavery cause.

 

[The Liturgist]

Has the PACE Act been challenged in the Supreme Court yet? I would like to know, because it seems to me that protecting minor children from homicide ought to be a lawfully protected activity, although the unfortunate political reality is that the pro-death movement has redefined the status of children so that one can kill them up to a certain point, and my fear is that this could in the years ahead be moved forward to children already born.