Articles tagged D.C. FACE Act trials

EXCLUSIVE: Jailed pro-lifer pens heartfelt poem about freedom while awaiting sentencing

'Within this room of stone I lie, and watch the traffic hurry by, outside the narrow window pane, where love and life alike are vain, and ponder, between them and we, who the real prisoners be,' wrote jailed pro-lifer Jonathan Darnel.

Opinion

Jonathan Darnel

• May 9, 2024May 9, 2024

Biden DOJ’s treatment of jailed pro-lifers meets international definitions of torture

The acts of torture enumerated below are prohibited either by American law or by international standards such as those set forth by the 2015 Nelson Mandela Rules to which the U.S. has been called to conform as recently as December 2023.

Opinion

Louis Knuffke

• May 3, 2024May 3, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Jailed pro-lifer says she was kept in solitary confinement for 22 days with lights on 24/7

In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews, Heather Idoni, a defendant in the Washington DC FACE Act trials, said that she received prolonged solitary confinement for sharing food with fellow prisoners.

News

Louis Knuffke

• Apr 29, 2024Apr 30, 2024

Pro-life prisoner took part in DC rescue ‘as if the life of the Preborn Christ Child was at stake’

Jean Marshall said that the eight or nine months in prison she and fellow activists have suffered since being convicted last fall of violating the FACE Act in the 2022 DC rescue have placed them in solidarity with the unborn, 'hidden from the world.'

News

Louis Knuffke

• Apr 22, 2024Apr 23, 2024

Jailed pro-lifer: Republican weakness on abortion is nothing new

We have always said life begins at conception. Our Republican allies seem not to have heard that—even after years of taking our money and votes and giving 'I am Pro-Life' statements when their earpiece gives them their consultants’ clearance.

Opinion

John Hinshaw

• Apr 17, 2024Apr 19, 2024

Congress urged to investigate potential federal crimes in DC abortion case before evidence is destroyed

The Thomas More Society has sent a letter to US Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio requesting that Congress take up its own investigation of whether federal crimes were committed against the five babies whose remains were recovered from the Washington Surgi-Center by Lauren Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac in March 2022.

News

Louis Knuffke

• Feb 7, 2024Feb 8, 2024

DC FACE Act prosecutor is using his own ‘conspiracy’ charge proposal to maximize pro-life sentencing

The DC FACE Act trials served as the golden opportunity for lawyer Sanjay Patel to try his new proposal of combining FACE charges with the charge of 'conspiracy against rights' to maximize sentencing against pro-lifers.

Analysis

Louis Knuffke

• Oct 28, 2023Oct 31, 2023

‘We came to stop the murder,’ jailed pro-life rescuer Jean Marshall testifies in third DC FACE Act trial

'The goal was to save lives,' jailed pro-lifer Jean Marshall told the court during the trial of her sister, Paulette Harlow.

News

Louis Knuffke

• Oct 26, 2023Oct 27, 2023

Judge allows defense to call jailed pro-lifers to testify in third DC FACE Act trial

In an unexpected move during pro-lifer Paulette Harlow's trial, Joan Andrew Bell and Jean Marshall will be brought to the courtroom on Wednesday from the Alexandria Detention Center, where they have been incarcerated since their own trial in mid-September.

News

Louis Knuffke

• Oct 24, 2023Oct 27, 2023

Jailed pro-lifer Jonathan Darnel doubles down on support for rescue movement: ‘Selfless sacrifice’

'We should be righteously indignant. And even if you can’t rescue or feel that that’s just strategically bad, you should be wanting to rescue,' Darnel advised.

News

Ashley Sadler

• Oct 18, 2023Oct 19, 2023

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Articles tagged D.C. FACE Act trials

EXCLUSIVE: Jailed pro-lifer pens heartfelt poem about freedom while awaiting sentencing

Biden DOJ’s treatment of jailed pro-lifers meets international definitions of torture

EXCLUSIVE: Jailed pro-lifer says she was kept in solitary confinement for 22 days with lights on 24/7

Pro-life prisoner took part in DC rescue ‘as if the life of the Preborn Christ Child was at stake’

Jailed pro-lifer: Republican weakness on abortion is nothing new

Congress urged to investigate potential federal crimes in DC abortion case before evidence is destroyed

DC FACE Act prosecutor is using his own ‘conspiracy’ charge proposal to maximize pro-life sentencing

‘We came to stop the murder,’ jailed pro-life rescuer Jean Marshall testifies in third DC FACE Act trial

Judge allows defense to call jailed pro-lifers to testify in third DC FACE Act trial

Jailed pro-lifer Jonathan Darnel doubles down on support for rescue movement: ‘Selfless sacrifice’