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GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (LifeSiteNews) — Four pro-life activists, including Dr. Monica Miller, the director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, were acquitted on all charges of “trespassing” in a Western Michigan courtroom today. Miller, Ann Norton, Heather Idoni, and Robert Kovaly were charged with trespassing at an abortion facility in downtown Grand Rapids in May 2020 during a Red Rose Rescue. Approximately 35 other pro-lifers also protested outside the abortion center that day.
A Red Rose Rescue is a particular form of pro-life activism that involves entering an abortion facility, handing pregnant women roses, and sharing with them messages of encouragement so they won’t go through with their scheduled abortion. Red Rose Rescuers often refuse to leave abortion facilities, risking arrest.
The Red Rose Rescues are something of a revival of successful tactics used during the early days of the pro-life movement, before the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) imposed harsh penalties on pro-lifers who save babies by physically blocking “access” to abortion facilities. They are also inspired by Canadian activist Mary Wagner, who has repeatedly entered Toronto
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