Wed Aug 23, 2023 – 6:57 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Throughout the course of the United States v. Handy trial taking place in the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C., government prosecutors have attempted to portray defendant Lauren Handy as a dangerous, extremist ringleader of a pro-life conspiracy to violate the FACE Act and deny women’s “reproductive health rights.”
Jury members were likely surprised when Handy took the stand to tell her story. Responding to questions from defense attorney Martin Cannon, the soft-spoken Handy described her life as a college student in Lynchburg, Virginia, immersed in the study of art history and planning a career as a museum curator or art historian.
When Cannon asked about her book collection, Handy quietly responded that she had a personal library of 400 books, and that she had read all of them. She said she was content pursuing a career in art when she took an interest in sidewalk counseling at a local abortion clinic as part of her commitment to an emerging philosophy of non-violence in all forms.
At the clinic, she witnessed a woman who had just finished an abortion procedure walking to her car being aggressively
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