Lauren Handy

‘For her efforts to peacefully protect the lives of innocent preborn human beings, Ms. Handy deserves thanks, not a gut-wrenching prison sentence’: attorney

The FACE Act case may go all the way to the Supreme Court, her attorney says.

Activist Lauren Handy to remain behind bars while awaiting sentencing for Washington abortion clinic protest because it was deemed a crime of violence.

Lawyers for a pro-life campaigner jailed over an abortion clinic protest are urging an appeals court to release her.

Pro-life campaigner Lauren Handy will not be released from jail, after a judge ruled a protest at an abortion clinic was a “crime of violence.”

Lauren Handy, leader of a group of people convicted of conspiring to obstruct access to an abortion clinic in Washington, vows to appeal the federal conviction. She is also seeking release from pre-sentencing detention.

The fate of five people accused of conspiring to obstruct access to an abortion clinic in Washington is now in the hands of a federal jury.