Fri Sep 15, 2023 – 3:20 pm EDTFri Sep 15, 2023 – 4:46 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Three pro-life rescuers on trial in the second of two high-profile federal trials concerning an October, 2020 rescue effort at a Washington, D.C. abortion center were today found guilty on all charges and immediately incarcerated. The news comes after five other pro-life activists involved in the same rescue were similarly found guilty on all charges and immediately locked up late last month.
On Friday, pro-life rescuers Joan Andrews Bell, 74; Jonathan Darnel, 40; and Jean Marshall, 72 were found guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and conspiracy against rights for blocking access to the Washington Surgi-Clinic in downtown Washington, D.C., in a “traditional rescue” in October 2020. Pro-life “rescues” involve activists physically intervening to try to stop women from going through with abortions.
Bell’s husband Chris told LifeSiteNews that today, the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, was “a very proper day to share in a very small way in Christ’s suffering, not least for the unborn who had no voice.”
“[The unborn babies] were not allowed to enter in any
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