The acts of torture enumerated below are prohibited either by American law or by international standards such as those set forth by the 2015 Nelson Mandela Rules to which the U.S. has been called to conform as recently as December 2023.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly for months has denied 74-year-old peaceful pro-lifer Jean Marshall a necessary hip surgery and doctors’ visits, forcing her to drag her right leg when she walks. Now Marshall is asking Rep. Chris Smith to step in.
Surgery had to be cancelled due to the judge's refusal to move the trial date. Eight months later, the pro-abortion judge has still denied any accommodation in a move that could arguably qualify as elder abuse.
Jean Marshall said that the eight or nine months in prison she and fellow activists have suffered since being convicted last fall of violating the FACE Act in the 2022 DC rescue have placed them in solidarity with the unborn, 'hidden from the world.'
Dr. Monica Miller of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society has published a request that readers 'flood' Justice Colleen Kollar-Kotelly with letters begging for clemency when the nine FACE Act prisoners are brought before her in mid-May.
In 2017 a new pro-life rescue method came into being – Red Rose Rescues – a method that blends the best of sidewalk counseling and defense of the preborn. The rescuers are not subject to the FACE act because Red Rose Rescuers do not physically obstruct anyone or anything.
In a third FACE Act trial this fall in Washington, D.C., in which the Department of Justice is pressing charges against pro-lifers for a “traditional” lock-and-block rescue in 2020 at the infamous late-term abortion facility Washington-Surgi Center, defendant Paulette Harlow called fellow pro-life rescuers Joan Andrews Bell, 74, and Jean Marshall, 72, Paulette’s sister, to the witness stand in an unexpected move. Read more here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/judge-allows-defense-to-call-jailed-pro-lifers-to-testify-in-third-dc-face-act-trial HELP US FIGHT THE LIES OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND SPREAD THE TRUTH AROUND THE WORLD: https://give.lifesitenews.com LOVE LIFESITE? LOVE BEING PRO-LIFE? GET THE FIRST AND ONLY LIMITED EDITION PRO-LIFE SILVER ROUND FROM LIFESITENEWS: […]