The Justice Department has charged nine anti-abortion protesters with conspiring to obstruct access to a women's reproductive health facility in Washington, D.C., in October 2020, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday afternoon.
A Department of Justice seal is shown before Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference, Feb. 22, 2022 at the Justice Department in Washington.The department said officers found five fetuses at the home. “Upon further investigation, MPD located five fetuses inside a residence at the location," MPD said in a statement."The fetuses were collected by the DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
According to the indictment, all the individuals traveled to D.C. to participate in the blockade under direction from Handy. The group calls itself Red Rose Rescue; during their demonstrations at clinics, they commonly hand out red roses to women in clinic waiting rooms. Handy allegedly called the clinic days before their protest, telling them she was a woman named Hazel Jenkins who needed care and made an appointment for the morning of Oct. 22, according to the indictment.
While in the D.C. clinic, prosecutors say the demonstrators blocked two doors using their bodies, furniture, chains and rope while broadcasting their actions live on Facebook. Darnel began the livestream by saying,"We have people intervening physically with their bodies to prevent women from entering the clinic to murder their children," the indictment states.
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