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DC Appeals Court Refuses to Release Pro-Life Campaigner During Appeal

Activist Lauren Handy to remain behind bars while awaiting sentencing for Washington abortion clinic protest because it was deemed a crime of violence.
DC Appeals Court Refuses to Release Pro-Life Campaigner During Appeal
Left-wing pro-life protester Lauren Handy, the director of activism with Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, protests outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 15, 2022. Jackson Elliott/The Epoch Times
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
9/25/2023|Updated: 9/26/2023
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A federal appeals court has denied pro-life campaigner Lauren Handy’s emergency motion to be released from custody pending her appeal.

Lawyers for Ms. Handy, who was jailed over a Washington abortion clinic protest, previously filed an emergency appeal seeking her release, arguing that the trial judge was wrong to rule that the disruptive political protest in which she was involved was a “crime of violence.”

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