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Subject: 75 year old woman sentenced to prison for a peaceful protest
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:19:03 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
"Paulette Harlow, an elderly woman with a debilitating medical
condition, was sentenced to 24 months in jail Friday after being
convicted last November of participating in a pro-life blockade of a
Washington, D.C., abortion clinic in 2020.
Harlow, 75, of Kingston, Massachusetts, was convicted under the
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and of a civil rights
conspiracy, a statute that prohibits the violation of someones rights
guaranteed to them by the U.S. Constitution and law.
The FACE Act prohibits violent, threatening, damaging, and
obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with
the right to seek, obtain, or provide reproductive health services.
Harlow was sentenced by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sitting in the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the same judge who
presided over and sentenced each of the other eight protesters who
were found guilty in the case.
Unlike some of her co-defendants, Harlow was allowed to remain on
house arrest pending sentencing because of her health issues, her
lawyer, Allen Orenberg, told CNA last November.
At the time, Orenberg declined to specify about Harlows health
issues. Orenberg could not be reached for comment Friday.
The D.C. blockade
The blockade of the Washington Surgi-Clinic was filmed by 42-year-old
Josh Darnel, one of the protesters who was also convicted and is
serving 34 months in prison.
In the over one-hour and 30-minute video of the protest, some of those
who sat inside the clinic can be seen chained together, praying the
rosary and singing hymns to the Blessed Virgin Mary while refusing to
leave when asked by police."
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257870/another-elderly-pro-life-activist-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison-after-face-act-conviction
The judge also reported laughed at the husband when he asked for
leniency for his ill wife.
Liberal "compassion" at work.