Despite her reportedly declining health, a 75-year-old pro-life activist was sentenced Friday to 24 months in prison and a subsequent 36 months of supervised release after her conviction last November for participating in an October 2020 protest in front of an abortion clinic in Washington, D.C.
Paulette Harlow was convicted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which prohibits “violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain, or provide reproductive health services.”
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According to the National Catholic Register, she was also charged with “conspiracy against rights,” which is when “two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sentenced Harlow. The same judge presided over and sentenced each of the other eight protesters found guilty as a result of the demonstration at the Washington Surgi-Clinic facility, as CBN News reported.
However, unlike some of her co-defendants,
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