Seven pro-life activists have been sentenced to jail this week for protesting at a late-term abortion clinic in 2020.
Below the Biden Regime, the DOJ has weaponized the Freedom of Entry to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. This 1994 legislation prohibits interfering with anybody acquiring or offering “reproductive well being providers,” as a punishment for the Supreme Court docket’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
After the Supreme Court docket ruling, Biden shaped the DOJ-led Reproductive Rights Process Power to implement the act.
In keeping with The Epoch Occasions, the FACE Act has now been used 130 instances towards pro-life people however solely used 3 times towards pro-abortion protesters.
The activists have been convicted of violating the Freedom of Entry to Clinic Entrances Act and “conspiracy towards rights” for a sit-in protest on the Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C.
The Gateway Pundit reported that in September 2023, Jonathan Darnel, 41, of Arlington, Virginia.; Jean Marshall, 73, of Kingston, Massachusetts; Joan Andrews Bell, 76, of Montague, New Jersey, have been every convicted of a felony conspiracy towards rights and a FACE Act offense.
On Wednesday, Bell left her sentencing singing ‘Ave Maria’ as supporters gave her a standing ovation. Bell was sentenced to 27 months in jail, neighborhood service, and a $125 wonderful which she mentioned she won’t pay.
Life Website Information reviews:
“In courtroom … Joan mentioned to the decide, ‘In conscience, I can’t pay any wonderful. Additionally, I can’t settle for probation because it violates my conscience.’”
When U.S. District Decide for the District of Columbia Colleen Kollar-Kotelly additionally knowledgeable Joan Bell that she must do neighborhood service, the pro-life prisoner “quietly, but forcefully” defined that she wouldn’t do it.
In keeping with Christopher Bell, Joan mentioned: “It violates my conscience. I can’t do one thing in reparation for one thing that the courtroom ought to be doing: defending youngsters.” She additionally mentioned that she wouldn’t volunteer for probation, as she didn’t agree that she had carried out “something unhealthy.”
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He continued: “As Joan was taken out of the courtroom, all the gallery of onlookers, as if one physique, erupted in applause as they gave her a standing ovation and lots of, together with me, have been saying, ‘I really like you, Joan.’ She left trying again and singing ‘Ave, Ave, Maria.’”
