{"id":166006,"date":"2017-05-13T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=166006"},"modified":"2017-05-12T16:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T20:18:42","slug":"charges-dropped-anglican-pastor-offered-assistance-women-ca-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/charges-dropped-anglican-pastor-offered-assistance-women-ca-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges dropped against Anglican pastor who offered assistance to women at CA Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Anglican pastor Father James Linton, who was arrested on October 7, 2016, outside a San Bernardino Planned Parenthood for &#8220;criminal trespass,&#8221; announced by video this week\u00a0that the charges against him have been\u00a0dropped:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3\";  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lifelegaldefense\/posts\/1741972762485744\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lifelegaldefense\/posts\/1741972762485744\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>GREAT NEWS!!! All charges against Father James Linton, who was arrested outside a Planned Parenthood facility in San&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lifelegaldefense\/\">Life Legal Defense Foundation<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lifelegaldefense\/posts\/1741972762485744\">Thursday, May 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Life Legal Defense Foundation took up the case against Fr. Linton, stating that Linton had &#8220;for over a year&#8230; had a peaceful presence outside the abortion facility, offering information and prayer to women seeking abortions.&#8221; LLDF <a href=\"https:\/\/lifelegaldefensefoundation.org\/2017\/02\/27\/pp-director-to-father-linton-i-love-prosecuting-people-like-you\/\">remarked<\/a>\u00a0on Linton&#8217;s arrest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Linton continued to reach out to young women entering the facility when he was stopped by a police officer who had just arrived on the scene. The officer told Father Linton to \u201cbe cool.\u201d Linton went to the parking lot of an adjacent pregnancy resource center and began preaching\u2014with the express consent of the pregnancy center. The officer followed Linton, grabbed him, and put him in handcuffs, even though he was not on or near Planned Parenthood\u2019s property at the time of arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The officer followed him, grabbed him, and put him in handcuffs. He chastised Father Linton for not being \u201ccool.\u201d Linton\u2019s response? \u201cIf I were interested in being cool, I wouldn\u2019t be standing outside an abortion clinic preaching.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/petition\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-160409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DefundAd-400b-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/anglican-pastor-arrested-sidewalk-counseling-ca-planned-parenthood\/\">previously reported<\/a> by Live Action News, the medical director of the abortion facility\u00a0(Jennefer Russo of\u00a0Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties) was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerformedicalprogress.org\/2016\/03\/planned-parenthood-orange-county-changes-abortions-to-harvest-intact-fetuses-for-local-companys-fetal-products-sales\/\">caught on one of the Center for Medical Progress&#8217;s undercover videos<\/a> discussing her organization&#8217;s fetal tissue supply arrangement with Da Vinci Biosciences\u00a0and revealing that her facility was not using digoxin to ensure fetal death prior to late-term abortions, leaving open the possibility that babies were being born alive during abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Linton stated previously that on the day of his arrest,\u00a0the Planned Parenthood center&#8217;s director had approached him, commenting\u00a0that she &#8220;loves going to court and prosecuting people like\u00a0[Linton].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglican pastor Father James Linton, who was arrested on October 7, 2016, outside a San Bernardino Planned Parenthood for &#8220;criminal trespass,&#8221; announced by video this week\u00a0that the charges against him have been\u00a0dropped: GREAT NEWS!!! All charges against Father James Linton, who was arrested outside a Planned Parenthood facility in San&#8230; Posted by Life Legal Defense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":157785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Charges dropped against Anglican pastor who offered assistance to women at CA Planned Parenthood<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anglican pastor James Linton, arrested for alleged &quot;criminal trespass&quot; at a CA Planned Parenthood, has had all charges against him dropped.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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