An elderly woman from Massachusetts was recently sentenced to prison following a 2020 pro-life demonstration at an abortion clinic.
Kingston resident Paula “Paulette” Harlow, 75, was handed a two-year prison sentence May 31 over an October 2020 incident that involved her and fellow pro-life activists blocking an abortion clinic.
According to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Harlow and 10 other pro-life activists were charged with “civil rights conspiracy and Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act violations.”
“[The defendants] forcefully entered the clinic and set about blockading two clinic doors using their bodies, furniture, chains, and ropes,” the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said.
“Once the blockade was established, they live-streamed their activities.”
“As the evidence at trial showed, the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to create a blockade at the reproductive health care clinic to prevent the clinic from providing, and patients from receiving, reproductive health services.”
Blocking abortion clinics is a violation of the FACE Act, which was signed into law by President Clinton in 1994.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Harlow explained that she has been on house arrest in recent weeks and expects to know soon if she needs to surrender to authorities.
Harlow said the 2020 incident took place at a clinic run by Dr. Cesare Santangelo, a doctor who has been accused of conducting late-term abortions. She described the demonstration as peaceful.
“We were there to intervene, to put our lives on the line, to intervene … between the death of the child and the abortionist, peacefully,” she said. --->READ MORE HERE
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on May 31 that Paula Paulette Harlow, 75, of Kingston, Massachusetts was sentenced to 24 months in prison for her role in a protest at a notorious abortion clinic in Washington, D.C.
Harlow becomes the 10th pro-life supporter sentenced to months – or years – in federal prison by radical, far-left U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.
According to the DOJ, Harlow was sentenced “for her role in a conspiracy that created a blockade at a Washington, D.C. reproductive health care clinic to prevent the clinic from providing, and patients from receiving, reproductive health services.”
The DOJ added:
Harlow is the 10th member of the conspiracy to be sentenced on charges of civil rights conspiracy and Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act violations.
Harlow is reportedly not in good health, and her husband fears she may die in prison while serving her two-year sentence. As a result, Harlow’s husband purportedly asked Judge Kollar-Kotelly for mercy on her behalf during his wife’s sentencing.
Not only did Judge Kollar-Kotelly refuse to show Harlow leniency, she also coldly remarked that Harlow should “make an effort to remain alive” since it’s a “tenant of [her] religion.”
Such a cold, cruel and callous remark coming from one of our nation’s federal judges is deeply disturbing.
The prison sentences stem from a protest at the Washington Surgi-Clinic on Oct. 22, 2020. --->READ MORE HERE
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