Fri Aug 25, 2023 – 1:55 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Pro-lifers rallied outside the district courthouse in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to pray for the five pro-life activists currently standing trial on federal charges for blocking access to a late-term abortion clinic.
As LifeSiteNews has reported, a group of five anti-abortion activists are currently on trial 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 prevent women from going through with abortions.
Lauren Handy, William Goodman, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, and Rosemary “Herb” Geraghty have been charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and committing conspiracy against rights. Each of the defendants could face up to 11 years behind bars if found guilty.
The verdict is expected as soon as today.
Reverend Patrick Mahoney, a minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, stressed outside the courthouse Thursday that the defendants are facing “eleven years in prison… for simply being a Christian and loving their neighbor as themselves.”
LifeSiteNews interviewed some of the assembled pro-lifers who gathered in support of the defendants in a short
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