Wed Aug 30, 2023 – 7:59 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department is investigating notorious area abortionist Cesare Santangelo, whose involvement in late-term “terminations” inspired the activism for which a group of pro-lifers was convicted this week.
As LifeSiteNews has extensively reported, activists Lauren Handy, John Hinshaw, William Goodman, Heather Idoni, and Herb Geraghty have stood trial over the past week for blocking access to Washington Surgi-Clinic in October 2020. On Tuesday, a D.C. jury found them guilty of conspiracy against rights and violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. They face more than a decade in prison, though their attorneys have vowed to appeal.
During the trial, Handy testified that she was inspired in part by viewing a 2013 undercover investigative video by the pro-life group Live Action, in which Santangelo explains that to prevent babies from moving after being removed from their mothers, “I try and sever the umbilical cord first, and we wait for that to stop pulsing, and this way the fetus is expired first, so it doesn’t […] usually at this point in your pregnancy, it is too early to
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