GUILTY: 3 MORE RESCUERS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
Last year, ten anti-abortion "Rescuers" were suddenly arrested and indicted for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) in 2020 at the Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, DC, a late-term abortion mill suspected of breaking Federal law by performing partial birth abortions and allowing fetuses to be born and expire outside the mother.
The FACE Act prohibits the practice of non-violently standing or sitting in the path of a woman seeking to obtain abortion. The oppressive DOJ also elected to indict defendants with a charge of Conspiracy Against Rights, increasing each rescuer's possible sentence to 11 years in prison and a $350,000 fine!
Caroline Taylor Smith, executive director of PAAU says, “This overreaching of power and authority by Biden’s DOJ is egregious and must be stopped. Nonviolent prolife actions should not be a federal crime, and peaceful people with a desire to save lives should not be jailed for over a decade. Some of these Rescuers could be facing death by incarceration. We must repeal the FACE Act now!”
Five of the Rescuers have already been convicted regarding this incident and are currently being held pending sentencing. Appeals for release are ongoing.
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