Pro-Lifers Indicted by Biden DOJ for 2020 Blocking of Doors at Michigan Abortion Facility Three Years Ago

The Department of Justice (DOJ), is reaching back to three years to indict eight pro-life activists for blocking the Northland Family Planning abortion facility at Sterling Heights. Michigan.

They can spend up to eleven years in federal prison. Many others have been accused of similar crimes.

The following is an extract from the DOJ indictmentThe eight conspirators to prevent women having abortions committed a conspiracy on August 27, 2020 by using social media to communicate their standing “in between the hands of an abortionist that wants to murder these children and the life of these babies,” The a href=”https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-indictment”>indictment Joel Curry, one the indicted, said this, quoting a livestreamed video.

They were also charged in violation of Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. This law was enacted 1994 to prevent interference with the provision or obtaining of abortions.

The group stopped a woman from entering the facility “for a scheduled reproductive health care appointment,” According to the indictment. Sterling Heights police ordered the group to leave. They moved. “refused to move and instead engaged the officers in conversation as a delay tactic, and continued to block access,” The indictment states that Chester Gallagher was one of the indicted. He said this on the video. “[The] longer they talk with us, the better the opportunity we have to see women and children rescued. And that’s what obstructing the door of an abortion clinic is about and why it is so successful.”

Eva Edl, a communist concentration camp survivor aged 87, refused to leave the group and encouraged the others not to allow access. “You can arrest us, you can do whatever you want, but I will be back, wherever there is a clinic open,” According to the indictment.

The accuse are Calvin Zastrow from Michigan, Chester Gallagher in Tennessee, Heather Idoni and Caroline Davis of Georgia; Joel Curry out of Michigan; Justin Phillips out of Michigan; Eva Edl out of South Carolina; Eva Zastrow out of Michigan.

Some of them were among the 11 people who have been charged with FACE Act violations as well as conspiracy to organize a march 2021 pro-life protest at a now-closed Mount Juliet, Tennessee abortion facility.

Idoni, age 58, is already facing 22 years in federal prison, including 11 years for the Tennessee incident and 11 years for her presence at an abortion facility in Washington, D.C. in October 2020. She could now face a total 33 years. It is possible that she will die before she is released.

“My own mother admitted to me that, had abortion been legal in 1964, she would have aborted me. I would hope someone would have fought for my life the same way we’ve been fighting for the lives of babies now,” Idoni shared his story with The Epoch Times. “Whenever I start to feel like I may have been in over my head, I just am reminded of the millions of babies that have been dismembered and killed brutally since 1973. And then I realized I haven’t done enough. This holocaust is nowhere near the end. And so I just want to glorify God in all the things that I do. I have no regrets whatsoever for the actions that I’ve taken to spare lives.”

After an investigation by a grand jury, the indictment has been filed.

“This is what faithful Christianity looks like in a nation that murders children,” Cal Zastrow spoke for The Epoch Times.

Pro-Lifers are Targeted

President Joe Biden has seen an increase in the number of penalties for pro-lifers.

According to the DOJ’s website, 17 people were criminally charged with violating the FACE Act in the 10 years that ran from 2011 to 2021. 26 people were charged by the DOJ in 2022. The Epoch Times asked for comment from the DOJ.

Soon after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, Biden issued an executive directive His administration will address the issue in July 2022 “potential heightened safety and security risks related to the provision of reproductive health care services.” He created the Reproductive rights Task Force, an organization led by the Justice Department that focuses in part on enforcement of the FACE Act.

For violations of the FACE Act, there are penalties. “Except that for an offense involving exclusively a nonviolent physical obstruction,” According to the DOJ website, “the fine shall be not more than $10,000 and the length of imprisonment shall be not more than six months, or both, for the first offense.” The maximum penalty for a subsequent offense is $25,000, and the maximum sentence of 18 months. Because the DOJ added conspiracy charges, the eight activists are now facing 11 years imprisonment.