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Federal Judge Refuses to Release Convicted Pro-Life Protesters

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.”
Federal Judge Refuses to Release Convicted Pro-Life Protesters
Anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy speaks at a news conference on the five fetuses found inside the home where she and other anti-abortion activists were living on Capitol Hill, at a news conference at the Hyatt Regency in Washington on April 5, 2022. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
9/1/2023|Updated: 9/1/2023
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A federal judge denied pro-life campaigner Lauren Handy’s motion to be released from jail pending her sentencing hearing, saying the protest action at an abortion clinic for which she was convicted was a “crime of violence.”

Ms. Handy, who was convicted by a jury on Aug. 29 of conspiring to obstruct access to an abortion clinic in Washington, was incarcerated pending sentencing, according to the order of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. The judge was appointed in 1997 by President Bill Clinton.

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