According to AP ‘reporter’ Melissa Goldin, Paulette Harlow – a 75-year-old grandmother with diabetes, spinal stenosis, and bronchial asthma – ‘invaded’ a partial-birth abortuary and committed ‘violence’ – the latest fake news from our state-run media.
Pro-life defendant Calvin Zastro slammed Judge Aleta Trauger’s refusal to admit media and the wider public into the courtroom as ‘unlawful’ in a statement to LifeSiteNews and urged pro-lifers to contact the court in response.
John Hinshaw was sentenced to 21 months in prison, minus the nine he has already spent in jail, in the second of Tuesday’s sentencing hearings for peaceful pro-lifer rescuers who blocked access to a late-term abortion center in DC.
'The Rescue community is strong and resilient,' Lauren Handy said as she awaits sentencing. 'We are like the dandelions growing through the cracks of concrete.'
'This conviction is blatant abuse of political power,' Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance said of the conviction of five pro-life activists who blocked access to a late-term abortion center in Washington, D.C.
The former rescuer, Caroline Davis, was indicted earlier this year for a separate blockade of an abortion center in Michigan. She agreed to testify in the Washington, D.C. trial as part of a plea deal to reduce her felony charge to a misdemeanor.
She sat straight in her chair, looked directly at members of the jury and, with all the zeal of a convert, denounced rescuers as harmful to the pro-life cause, which she said she still believes in.