Pro-Life Activist Gets 57 Months In Prison For Protesting Abortion

Lauren Handy, 30, was sentenced to 57 months in prison as well as three years probation on Tuesday for trying to save babies from abortion at an abortion facility back in 2020. The court however, deemed that Handy violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act). On October 22, 2020, Handy, along with a number of other pro-life activists, was arrested for allegedly blocking access to the Washington Surgi abortion clinic in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors insist that Handy instructed other pro-lifers at the scene to link themselves together with locks and chains while they sang hymns and prayed for the moms and babies who were set up for abortions. Pro-lifer Lauren Handy sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison for "blockading" a Washington abortion clinic in 2020. After she was indicted, police found 5 fetuses in her Washinton home. According to prosecutors, Handy instructed co-defendants to chain themselves together with locks and chains.

Handy and the other people she was with sang hymns and prayed, accusing the clinic of killing babies even after they were born. The video below was clipped from a live stream, documenting the incident on October 22, 2020. Handy was convicted of conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. She was sentenced to 57 months in prison.

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