For the past nine months, our client Lauren Handy has been languishing in jail awaiting her formal sentencing hearing… Lauren was put on trial by the Biden Department of Justice in August 2023 and convicted of violating the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act. The Biden DOJ tacked on charges of engaging in […]
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For the past nine months, our client Lauren Handy has been languishing in jail awaiting her formal sentencing hearing…
Lauren was put on trial by the Biden Department of Justice in August 2023 and convicted of violating the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act.
The Biden DOJ tacked on charges of engaging in a felony “Conspiracy Against Rights” to make sure she would face a potential sentence of up to 11 years… All for courageously and peaceably standing her ground to protect life.
A federal jury in heavily pro-abortion Washington, D.C. found her guilty. What’s more, she was wrongly branded “violent felon,” and the DOJ unjustly locked her up immediately after she was convicted.
Today, after months of waiting, we stood alongside Lauren in federal court for her formal sentencing hearing…
There’s no way to sugarcoat this: Lauren was just sentenced to a brutal 57 months in federal prison!
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This is a grave miscarriage of justice. This is all because Lauren and her co-defendants participated in a rescue at notorious late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo’s Washington, D.C. facility…
Lauren was utterly peaceable in her civil disobedience that day. She believed, with good reason, that babies were being born alive and left to die inside Santangelo’s abortion mill. She had to take a stand—her conscience could not let her ignore the plight of her preborn brothers and sisters inside Santangelo’s facility.
Here’s what Lauren said this morning:
“Yes, this time has been challenging but I refuse to be jaded. Why? Because life goes on… even in jail. So I might as well continue to love and cry and scream and dance. That is joy. The feeling of being fully alive without shame. Which is something no court can take from me. So today, I am at peace with myself and my future.”
For her peaceful protest, the Biden DOJ came after her with the entire weight and might of the United States government. Even convicted drug dealers get better treatment than peaceful pro-lifers like Lauren…
We cannot let Lauren languish in prison for the next four years. Our fight for Lauren’s freedom is far from over. Here at Thomas More Society, we are putting together a hard-hitting appeal for Lauren and her co-defendants—to challenge their unjust convictions.
Now that Lauren has been formally sentenced, we have the green light to continue forward with our massive appeal to attack this terrible injustice.
Our appeal will go even further and attack the root of the problem: The Biden DOJ’s weaponization of the FACE Act. We believe the FACE Act is unconstitutional and that Lauren’s convictions must be overturned. And we’re going to court to fight for it to be ruled unconstitutional.
This fight is critical to protecting pro-life advocates nationwide against a weaponized DOJ that seeks to scare our pro-lifers into hiding. Thank you for all that you do. Please keep Lauren in your prayers as we continue this battle for her freedom.
LifeNews Note: Tom Brejcha is the President & Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Society.
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