Fri Oct 6, 2023 – 3:01 pm EDTFri Oct 6, 2023 – 3:49 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Anti-abortion activists with the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), a left-wing organization that supports LGBT ideology yet vehemently opposes abortion, spoke with LifeSiteNews to emphasize the importance of engaging in “rescue” efforts to directly save preborn babies.
As LifeSite has extensively reported, eight anti-abortion rescuers were convicted and immediately incarcerated for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and conspiracy against rights in two separate federal trials held in late August and early September.
The rescuers were charged with the crimes after blocking access to the Washington Surgi-Clinic, a notorious late-term abortion facility in downtown Washington, D.C., in a “traditional rescue” in October 2020. “Rescues” involve activists physically intervening to try to stop women from going through with abortions.
RELATED: Convicted pro-life rescuers issue statements from jail as their supporters rally outside
After five defendants, including PAAU director Lauren Handy, were convicted in the first trial and immediately led away to jail, PAAU director of community organizing Kristen Turner shouted defiantly, “Long live rescue.”
In comments to LifeSite, Turner said her rallying cry signified that the movement
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors