{"id":2237274,"date":"2024-05-04T16:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T20:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/communist-concentration-camp-survivor-could-die-while-in-us-prison-for-peaceful-pro-life-demonstration\/"},"modified":"2024-05-04T16:48:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T20:48:05","slug":"communist-concentration-camp-survivor-could-die-while-in-us-prison-for-peaceful-pro-life-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/communist-concentration-camp-survivor-could-die-while-in-us-prison-for-peaceful-pro-life-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"Communist Camp Survivor Faces Death in US Prison for Pro-Life Protest"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fcommunist-concentration-camp-survivor-could-die-while-in-us-prison-for-peaceful-pro-life-demonstration%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=2237274&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\u200c summary discusses Eva Edl&#8217;s harrowing experience\u200c under communist\u2062 oppression\u200d and her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dad-of-11-convicted-for-praying-at-abortion-facility-alongside-5-other-pro-lifers-targeted-by-doj\/\" title=\"Father of 11 found guilty for praying at abortion clinic with 5 other pro-life activists, targeted by DOJ\">peaceful pro-life activism<\/a> in the US. Despite\u2064 surviving a concentration camp, she faces prison time for violating the\u2064 FACE Act. Edl&#8217;s past \u2062fuels her fight against \u200babortion, reflecting on the horrors of \u200dgenocide and her dedication to saving lives. The summary highlights \u2062Eva Edl&#8217;s traumatic history under communist rule, her current peaceful \u2064pro-life advocacy in the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jamaal-bowman-could-face-more-than-30-years-behind-bars-for-fire-alarm-pull\/\" title=\"Jamaal Bowman may receive over 30 years in prison for pulling fire alarm.\">facing legal repercussions<\/a>, and\u2064 how\u2063 her past \u2063drives her anti-abortion\u200b stance. Edl&#8217;s commitment to preventing\u200c atrocities like genocide\u2063 shapes \u200cher\u200c dedication to protecting life.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/mlandry\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/mlandry\/%20\"><span>Mike Landry<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 4, 2024 at 12:40pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t done anything wrong! Who would harm us?\u201d 88-year-old Eva Edl recalls her mother saying as a result of communist oppression in post-World War II Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen our whole people was destroyed,\u201d Edl said. \u201cWe hadn\u2019t done anything wrong, as far as I know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edl is like so many who escaped to America to flee communist oppression, only to find the same kind of evil beginning here.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike most refugees who warn of yesteryear\u2019s dangerous political and philosophical practices creeping into the U.S., Edl is experiencing them herself.<\/p>\n<p>And she expects to die in prison after being found guilty along with three others of violating the federal FACE Act, designed to preserve access to abortion centers.<\/p>\n<p>She faces a possible sentence of 11 years, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Edl\u2019s suffering under communism is what drives her fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-abortion-advocate-desperately-tries-interrupt-pastors-prayer-capitol-fails-miserably\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a>. It began with her shock in discovering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pop-star-olivia-rodrigo-passes-abortion-pills-fans-shoves-pro-choice-message-faces-gen-z\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ramifications<\/a> of the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving in the U.S. in 1955, it was not until taking a class in English in 1968 that she learned about the debate then going on over abortion, according to an in-depth story on Edl by Mary Margaret Olohan in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2024\/04\/21\/exclusive-she-survived-death-camp-facing-biden-doj-charges-shes-prepared-die-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Signal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Until her 1968 class, Edl said she didn\u2019t know what abortion was. Upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-bill-maher-says-quiet-part-loud-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">learning about it<\/a>, she said she was shocked. Unborn babies are not tumors, she told Olohan; rather, an unborn baby is a life.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Should the government send people to jail for peacefully protesting outside an abortion clinic?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI tried to speak up in that subject,\u201d Edl recalled, \u201cbut I must have done a very bad job, because I don\u2019t think I convinced the person that I was speaking with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd after that,\u201d she continued, \u201cI just brought the subject up all the time because it bothered me that people would actually think of killing their own children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her observation is colored by what happened in 1944 to her and other members of a German-speaking ethnic group, the Danube Swabians, when pounced upon in Yugoslavia by communists led by Josip Broz, better known as Tito.<\/p>\n<p>Caught up on the extermination end of a genocidal fervor, Edl and her family were shipped off in cattle cars similar to what Nazis had been doing to Jews and others.<\/p>\n<p>Disease and starvation killed many at the communist Yugoslavian concentration camp she ended up at.<\/p>\n<p>She was 9 years old at the time. Edl told of how her mother, a slave laborer, risked her life hiding in a wagon to find her daughter among thousands at the camp.<\/p>\n<p>They were reunited, though upon seeing her daughter so emaciated and covered with lice, Edl\u2019s mother had to leave to go vomit.<\/p>\n<p>Edl praised her grandmother, who voluntarily went to the camp to protect her; described her sister who, having been forced to dig a grave for herself, looked directly into a soldier\u2019s eye and dared him to kill her, which he refused to do, and she told of the risks her mother took to get her children to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>All that ties directly into her feelings about abortion and how America could partake in such gruesome bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica, in my eyes, was this country of justice and opportunity and everything that is good,\u201d Edl said. \u201cA beacon for us, over there, that didn\u2019t know what all that meant, because we had nothing but oppression from whoever was ruling us at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until 1988 that she learned abortions didn\u2019t take place in dank, obscure places, but in well-appointed, air-conditioned clinics.<\/p>\n<p>So she got involved. With the blessing of her late husband, Edl joined a protest at an Atlanta abortion center, working to convince women not to follow through with the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>In the genocide in her country, the people could have resisted and stopped the trains, she said. They could have created a distraction that would allow others to free people in the cattle cars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut nobody did,\u201d she told Olohan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, when we place our bodies between the woman and the clinic, we buy time to get our sidewalk counselors the opportunity to speak with women, and hopefully open their hearts with love for their babies and let their babies live,\u201d Edl said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter all, we offer them everything there is, including adoptions. I\u2019ve offered to adopt babies on the spot \u2026 we\u2019re standing between the killer and the victim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Edl has been involved in incidents at 50 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pop-star-speaks-abortion-regret-grammy-none-will-bring-children-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion clinics<\/a>, engaged in what activists for decades have described as attempted \u201crescues\u201d of babies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would put our bodies in front of the entrance of the abortion clinic, which I call the \u2018death camp,\u2019 so nobody could come in and kill the babies,\u201d she told the Daily Signal.<\/p>\n<p>Edl has been charged three times for violating the FACE act \u2014 in 2020 in the Detroit suburb of Sterling Heights, Michigan, and in 2021 in Saginaw, Michigan, and Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Edl said she did not engage in violence in those incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a federal judge found Edl guilty of being involved in a \u201cblockade\u201d of a suburban Nashville abortion center, along with James and Eva Zastrow and Paul Place.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict was confirmed by United States Attorney Henry Leventis for the Middle District of Tennessee and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division, both Biden appointees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the defendants violated the FACE Act by using physical obstruction over the course of several hours to interfere with the clinic\u2019s employees and a patient, because the clinic was providing, and the patient sought, reproductive health services\u2026,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-mdtn\/pr\/four-defendants-found-guilty-federal-charges-after-obstructing-patients-and-providers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a> from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office of the Middle District of Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese defendants positioned themselves directly in front of the main clinic door for over two hours, physically blocking access to the clinic, resulting in no patients accessing the clinic,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p>Edl has said police have been especially brutal in arresting abortion protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Pushed by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), the FACE Act \u2013 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances \u2014 was signed into law in 1994, as a protection against abortion centers. It also contains protections for churches and for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comedian-patton-oswalt-apologizes-for-posting-picture-with-dave-chappelle\/\" title=\"Comedian Patton Oswalt Apologizes For Posting Picture With Dave Chappelle\">pro-life centers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-timed-demand-pass-george-floyd-justice-policing-act-blows-face\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration<\/a> \u2013 especially after the overturning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/looks-like-roe-v-wades-demise-saved-many-lives-state-sees-dramatic-99-decrease-abortions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roe v. Wade<\/a> \u2013 the FACE act has been increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-america-praying-pro-lifers-may-face-prison-time-pro-abortion-fire-bomber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weaponized<\/a> against abortion opponents despite vandalism against churches and pro-life centers, The Daily Signal reported.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s even though the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/protecting-patients-and-health-care-providers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Justice<\/a> claims the \u201cThe FACE Act is not about abortions,\u201d but is designed to protect pregnancy support facilities as well.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the weaponization, some conservative legislators are calling for the law\u2019s repeal.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. 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He has been a journalist, broadcaster and church pastor. He writes from Northwest Arkansas on current events and business history.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Mike Landry, PhD, is a retired business professor. He has been a journalist, broadcaster and church pastor. He writes from Northwest Arkansas on current events and business history. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a poignant commentary by Mike Landry on May 4, 2024, at 12:40 pm, 88-year-old Eva Edl recounts the devastating impact of communist oppression in post-World War II Yugoslavia. 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