{"id":1703888,"date":"2022-10-20T12:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703888"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:34:28","slug":"the-fbi-has-announced-indictments-of-22-pro-life-protesters-and-zero-pregnancy-center-firebombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-fbi-has-announced-indictments-of-22-pro-life-protesters-and-zero-pregnancy-center-firebombers\/","title":{"rendered":"The FBI Has Announced Indictments Of 22 Pro-Life Protesters And Zero Pregnancy Center Firebombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-fbi-has-announced-indictments-of-22-pro-life-protesters-and-zero-pregnancy-center-firebombers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703888&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/pennsylvania-man-indicted-freedom-access-clinic-entrances-act-and-conspiracy-against-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> the indictment of pro-life activist Herb Geraghty on Oct. 14, bringing the number of apparently nonviolent pro-life protesters targeted under the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act by President Joe Biden\u2019s DOJ this year to 22. Meanwhile, the agency has yet to announce a single arrest or indictment against any of the vandals or arsonists who terrorized and firebombed crisis pregnancy centers after the leak of the Supreme Court\u2019s <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em> decision overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Geraghty, a 25-year-old from Pittsburgh, is accused of participating in a \u201creproductive health care clinic blockade in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 22, 2020.\u201d Along with nine other defendants, the DOJ alleges, Geraghty \u201cforcefully entered the [abortion facility] and set about blockading two clinic doors using their bodies, furniture, chains and ropes.\u201d In March, the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/nine-defendants-indicted-federal-civil-rights-conspiracy-and-freedom-access-clinic-entrances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> indictments against the other nine: \u201cLauren Handy, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia; Jonathan Darnel, 40, of Arlington, Virginia, Jay Smith, 32, of Freeport, New York; Paulette Harlow, 73, of Kingston, Massachusetts; Jean Marshall, 72, of Kingston, Massachusetts; John Hinshaw, 67, of Levittown, New York; Heather Idoni, 61, of Linden, Michigan; William Goodman, 52, of the Bronx, New York; and Joan Bell, 74, of Montague, New Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe indictment also alleges that all 10 defendants violated the FACE Act by using a physical obstruction to injure, intimidate and interfere with the clinic\u2019s employees and a patient, because they were providing or obtaining reproductive health services,\u201d the DOJ continued in its recent press release. <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/pro-lifers-raided-charged-and-face-11-years-in-jail-for-blocking-access-to-infamous-dc-abortion-mill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">description<\/a> of the demonstration by LifeSiteNews, however, paints a far less charged picture:<\/p>\n<p>Once inside, the rescuers sought to offer help to families who were seeking abortion, counselling them to change their minds about aborting their babies, praying with them, and informing them about local resource centers. Rescuers blocked the abortion facility\u2019s entrances and stationed themselves around the complex to physically prevent access to the building.<\/p>\n<p>The protest very well may have violated trespassing restrictions, as well as provisions of the FACE Act, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criminalizes<\/a> \u201cattempts to \u2026 interfere with\u201d a person for \u201cobtaining or providing reproductive health services.\u201d The law was passed in 1994 and designed to crack down on attempted bombings or arson of abortion offices. The DOJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/protecting-patients-and-health-care-providers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims<\/a>, \u201cThe FACE Act is not about abortions [but] protects all patients, providers, and facilities that provide reproductive health services, including pro-life pregnancy counseling services.\u201d But under Biden\u2019s Justice Department, it might as well limit its protections to abortion facilities. Furthermore, if the overbroad law can be stretched by corrupt G-men to prosecute peaceful Americans exercising their First Amendment rights \u2014 as the Garland DOJ has since stretched it \u2014 Congress should repeal it.<\/p>\n<p>In a just world, federal law wouldn\u2019t exist to protect the practice of killing babies in their mothers\u2019 wombs. But since it does, it appears the FBI made an easy example out of Geraghty and the nine other participants who were indicted in March of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Federalist review of DOJ press releases in 2022 revealed not a single announcement of the arrest or indictment of a pregnancy center arsonist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":1703891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}