We are faced with yet another injustice promoted by the Biden administration, which obtains harsh sentences and harsh prison sentences against peaceful pro-life protesters, while leaving alone the terrorists and abortionist vandals who burn down churches and life and maternity aid centers.
Two years ago, President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) charged nine pro-life activists with conspiracy and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinics Act (known by the acronym “FACE”) for the nonviolent protest they held on the side of outside a Washington abortion clinic in October 2020. The charge carried a maximum penalty of 11 years in prison and a $350,000 fine. Pro-lifers were found guilty in two separate trials in August It is September 2023 and, since then, they have been in preventive detention, awaiting the final sentence.
The FACE law prohibits “the use of force, obstruction and damage to property, with the intent to interfere with reproductive health services”, while conspiracy against the rights of others, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison, “makes it illegal for two or more persons agree to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in the United States in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege guaranteed by the Constitution or the laws of the United States or in the exercise of such right,” in accordance with the interpretation of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Well, on May 14th and 15th, decisions by clearly partisan and abortionist judges established severe penalties for pro-life.
At Tuesday, Lauren Handy, a 30-year-old woman and activist with the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), a left-wing pro-life movement, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison. Two other pro-lifers were convicted: 69-year-old John Hinshaw was sentenced to 21 months in prison and 54-year-old William Goodman was sentenced to 27 months in prison. All three convicts will have the nine months of pre-trial detention already served in prisons in their country deducted. democratic, accordingly with the Department of Justice.
At Wednesday, it was the turn of Jonathan Darnel, 42, an Iraq war veteran who served two tours, to be sentenced to 34 months behind bars, while Herb Geraghty, a 27-year-old pro-life atheist, was sentenced to 27 months behind bars. prison. Jean Marshall, 74, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and Joan Bell, 76, was sentenced to 27 months in prison, despite her advanced age.
Prosecutors alleged that the activists set up a blockade at the entrance to the Washington clinic and used chains and padlocks to prevent the abortion clinic doors from opening. Versions that conflict with evidence provided by pro-life lawyers at the Thomas More Society, who instead said that some activists “simply knelt and prayed at the Santangelo facility [a clínica de aborto]some distributed pro-life publications and advised women not to have abortions, and others tied themselves up and chained themselves inside the facilities.”
The disturbing coincidence that the Justice Department’s charges against pro-lifers were filed the same month as Handy and Bukovinac would have discovered the remains of about 115 aborted babies in a trash container at Dr. Santangelo’s Surgi-Clinic abortion facility in Washington, five of which may have been partially aborted or killed after birth, in violation of federal law, casts suspicion on the entire process.
United States District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly did not allow video or photographic evidence of the 115 aborted babies to be used as evidence at trial and banned the defendants from arguing that their actions were protected by the First Amendment or that they were committed in defense of third-party, unborn children, and instead claimed that pro-lifers had demonstrated a lack of compassion toward the women they sought abortions and prevented their “human need for medical care.”
Since case decision Dobbs at the Supreme Courtthe Department of Justice has increasingly brought charges against pro-lifers under the FACE Act, just as promised recently by Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, who emphasized the “urgency” of the Justice Department’s work in enforcing the FACE Act, “to ensure continued legal access to reproductive services” across the country.
Obviously, sorry to have to reiterate, in relation to the several dozen attacks to pregnancy centers and 400 Christian houses of worship and Catholic churches vandalized after the Dobbs ruling was released, only a few pro-abortion activists have been arrested so far in Floridain New York It is Ohio.
For some time now, several pro-life leaders and some Republicans, particularly the Congressman Chip Roy and Senator Mike Lee, come asking and introducing bills to repeal the FACE law.
Luca Volontebachelor in Political Sciences, was an Italian deputy from 1996 to 2013. He founded and directed the Novae Terrae Foundation for several years, coordinating, as General Secretary and in collaboration with Italian and foreign universities and research institutes, the first global investigation into family policies , human dignity and freedom of education.
©2024 La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana. Published with permission. Original in Italian: “L’America “democratica” incarcerates me for life”.
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