5 fetuses discovered in house where anti-abortion activist was staying

Nithavela said:

I don't think heroes keep dead fetuses in their coolers, but maybe I have different heroes.

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Where else would you keep an unborn child until you could give her a proper burial?

renniks said:

Where else would you keep an unborn child until you could give her a proper burial?

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A morgue.

Nithavela said:

A morgue.

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Is that even an option for an aborted child? Is that where they usually end up? I don't think so.

FreeinChrist said:

5 fetuses found at home of DC anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy | wusa9.com

DC Police discovered five fetuses at the home of an anti-abortion activist in Capitol Hill on Wednesday, the department has confirmed to WUSA9....​

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Lauren Handy and others are standing trial for blocking access to an abortion clinic in DC. Jury selection has been difficult. Not just because abortion is a hot-button issue, but because people in DC remember the woman who had 5 fetuses in her home (although that is not part of this case).

The daunting task of finding an impartial jury in an abortion trial​

The trial, which is expected to last three weeks in U.S. District Court in Washington, will center on access to abortion and whether those on trial violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a 1994 law that prohibits threats to and obstruction of a person seeking reproductive health services or providers.

Jury selection has also been further complicated after the lead defendant made news last year for obtaining fetuses from the driver of a medical waste disposal truck in D.C. — an account the waste company denied — and storing them in a Capitol Hill rowhome.

Congress passed the FACE act as a reaction to increasing blockades at health clinics providing abortion, as well as violence toward those clinics, providers and patients. In 1993, David Gunn was fatally shot outside his Florida abortion clinic in what was believed to be the first time in the nation that an abortion provider was killed in protest. [I would point out that murder is not a protest.]

essentialsaltes said:

Lauren Handy and others are standing trial for blocking access to an abortion clinic in DC. Jury selection has been difficult. Not just because abortion is a hot-button issue, but because people in DC remember the woman who had 5 fetuses in her home (although that is not part of this case).

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All 5 were convicted.

Federal prosecutors allege the defendants — Handy, of Alexandria, Va.; John Hinshaw, of Levittown, N.Y.; Heather Idoni, of Linden, Mich.; William Goodman, of New York; and Herb Geraghty, of Pittsburgh — violated federal law when they used chains, bike locks and ropes to blockade the Washington Surgi-Clinic in October 2020. The trial for a second group of defendants facing charges from the same blockade is scheduled to begin next week.

Based on the convictions, she ordered Handy and the other co-defendants jailed until sentencing later this year. The defendants face up to 11 years in prison and a fine of up to $350,000.

Hawthorne said:

What a reductionist statement. Perhaps you missed this part of the post--see especially the last sentence in bold:


Or this:


She wasn't keeping them in coolers "for the lulz" and they weren't going to stay there either. And do you think a dumpster is a more respectful place for the slain than a cooler?

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You can have a memorial service without violating the law. Mishandling human remains or medical waste is a violation of the law.

Medical waste and human tissues are usually incinerated, not thrown in a dumpster.

essentialsaltes said:

All 5 were convicted.

Federal prosecutors allege the defendants — Handy, of Alexandria, Va.; John Hinshaw, of Levittown, N.Y.; Heather Idoni, of Linden, Mich.; William Goodman, of New York; and Herb Geraghty, of Pittsburgh — violated federal law when they used chains, bike locks and ropes to blockade the Washington Surgi-Clinic in October 2020.
Based on the convictions, she ordered Handy and the other co-defendants jailed until sentencing later this year. The defendants face up to 11 years in prison and a fine of up to $350,000.

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Atheist, nonbinary pro-life activist sentenced to federal prison for FACE Act violation​

The first pro-life atheist indicted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for participating in the 2020 blockade of a Washington, D.C., abortion facility.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly announced the sentence for nonbinary pro-life activist Herb (Rosemary) Geraghty on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the federal judge sentenced three of Geraghty’s fellow activists — Lauren Handy [she of the fetuses], John Hinshaw and William Goodman — who also participated in the October 2020 blockade of the Washington Surgi-Clinic. Handy is a member of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, another pro-life group of which Geraghty is also a part.

[Judge] Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Handy to 57 months in federal prison for participating in and planning the blockade at the Washington Surgi-Clinic. Hinshaw received a sentence of 21 months incarceration, while Goodman was sentenced to 27 months.

[Heather Idoni got 24 months.]