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OSV News) — Despite President Donald Trump’s January pardons of 23 peopleconvicted of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinics Act, or FACE Act, at least one prosecution of pro-life activists accused of violating a local law by disrupting an abortion clinic is moving ahead.
A diocesan hermit, Father David Nix, is one of four defendants going on trial March 14 in Madison Joint Municipal Court in Madison, New Jersey, for a July 13, 2019, “rescue” at a clinic in nearby Morristown. A conviction could result in fines and a short jail term.
Father David as well as Father Fidelis Moscinski and William Goodman, both of whom received presidential pardons for their earlier participation in clinic blockades, and another activist, Sally Hernandez, were charged after participating in a Red Rose Rescue at Garden State Gynecology. The trial has been postponed twice, once as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A diocesan hermit, Father David Nix, is one of four defendants going on trial March 14 in Madison Joint Municipal Court in Madison, New Jersey, for a July 13, 2019, “rescue” at a clinic in nearby Morristown. A conviction could result in fines and a short jail term.
Father David as well as Father Fidelis Moscinski and William Goodman, both of whom received presidential pardons for their earlier participation in clinic blockades, and another activist, Sally Hernandez, were charged after participating in a Red Rose Rescue at Garden State Gynecology. The trial has been postponed twice, once as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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New abortion clinic trial in New Jersey involves a hermit, a friar and two laypeople
Father David Nix and three activists are going on trial for a 2019 pro-life protest at an NJ abortion clinic, which will begin on March 14.
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