Nine Pro-Life Advocates Face Prison
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 22 May 2024
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Significant jail time for peacefully protesting abortion.
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| 0:00.0 | The Woman to look at Culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
| 0:04.5 | Last week, Pro Life Advocate Lauren Handy was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison. |
| 0:09.0 | Two others also received lesser sentences and nine in awe have been convicted for so-called obstructing |
| 0:14.8 | reproductive health services in violation of what's known as the Freedom of Access to |
| 0:19.4 | Clinic Entrances Act. |
| 0:21.2 | They were arrested during a protest in October 2020 at a notorious |
| 0:25.0 | late-term abortion clinic in Washington, D.C. Theresa Bekovinek, whose founder of the |
| 0:29.8 | organization that was sponsoring the protest, known as Progressive Anti-abortion Uprising, |
| 0:34.8 | called the arrest and conviction a new level of tyranny, saying, quote, |
| 0:38.8 | there's no other social justice movement in our nation whose activists are subject to years in federal prison for nonviolent |
| 0:44.7 | resistance. This blatant viewpoint discrimination has incalculable consequences for babies, |
| 0:49.6 | for parents, those who defend them, and for peaceful activists across movements worldwide. |
| 0:53.8 | I continue to stand by Lauren, she said, and the other eight defendants who risk their freedoms |
| 0:58.0 | to stand in defense of the least of us. |
| 1:00.3 | For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
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