Joan Andrews Bell was jailed earlier this year after being convicted of violating the FACE Act. In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews, Joan’s husband, Chris, said that his wife is using her time behind bars to pray for an end to abortion.
Bishop Kevin Sweeney said the 74-year-old's ‘voice, example, and witness, are worthy of our consideration’ and called on Catholics to ‘pray for Joan and all of those who make a sacrificial witness for life.’
'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.
With Friday's verdict, all rescuers who stood trial for their involvement in the October 2020 rescue effort at the notorious Washington Surgi-Clinic have been found guilty on all charges.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. on Tuesday sided with pro-lifers against the same district court in which the 10 advocates for the unborn are being prosecuted for FACE Act violations. The ruling could be good news for the anti-abortion activists, who face up to 11 years behind bars if convicted.
Five of the original nine defendants are currently on trial, with each facing up to 11 years in prison if convicted on federal charges for an October 2020 rescue effort to save unborn babies in a downtown Washington, D.C., facility run by notorious late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo.
‘I'm sad, not because we're being persecuted by the federal government, but because the federal government is persecuting the unborn,’ pro-life advocate Will Goodman told LifeSiteNews.