{"id":282087,"date":"2022-12-22T14:37:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T20:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=282087"},"modified":"2022-12-21T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:08:10","slug":"abortion-industry-donor-harvey-weinstein-guilty-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-industry-donor-harvey-weinstein-guilty-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocal abortion industry donor Harvey Weinstein found guilty on rape charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Disgraced Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/19\/us\/harvey-weinstein-trial-deliberations-los-angeles-monday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted<\/a> on three out of seven charges, including one charge of rape. This is his second sexual assault trial, the first having taken place in New York.\u00a0A California jury was reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/1-womans-story-rape-convinced-113847774.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">swayed<\/a> by the testimony of Jane Doe 1, who said Weinstein arrived at her hotel room uninvited in the middle of the night, and raped her. His lawyer, meanwhile, accused her of lying in his closing statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013. I will never get that back,&#8221; Jane Doe 1 said in a statement. &#8220;The criminal trial was brutal. Weinstein\u2019s lawyers put me through hell on the witness stand. But I knew I had to see this through the end, and I did\u2026 I hope Harvey Weinstein never sees the outside of a prison cell during his lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For years, Weinstein was an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/harvey-weinstein-dropped-100k-at-2017-planned-parenthood-gala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open supporter<\/a>\u00a0and donor of Planned Parenthood, the nation&#8217;s largest abortion business, which has a long history of aiding sexual abusers and covering up sex trafficking and child abuse. As Live Action&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/what-we-do\/investigations\/aidingabusers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aiding Abusers<\/a> investigation found, Planned Parenthood was regularly found to cover up these crimes, to the benefit of the men who committed them. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-was-a-tool-for-men-in-classic-hollywood-to-cover-up-sexual-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood<\/a>\u00a0has been found to regularly pressure women in the entertainment industry to abort \u2014\u00a0and Weinstein was, of course, a highly influential power player in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p><b>URGENT:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/future-of-abortion\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=minibomb\"><b><i>For every dollar given, 34 more people can be reached with the truth about abortion. Will you join us in this life-saving work as a monthly donor today?<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6R8gtSP3Guk\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/12\/19\/1139349809\/harvey-weinstein-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously sentenced<\/a> to 23 years in prison in New York, on charges of rape and sexual assault. In California, he faces an additional 18 years in prison. He had originally been charged with 11 counts, but four of the charges \u2014 based on the testimony of a woman called Jane Doe 5 \u2014 were dismissed when prosecutors said they could not proceed on them. The jury couldn&#8217;t come to a unanimous decision on four of the remaining seven charges.<\/p>\n<p>Siebel Newsom, one of the woman whose charges the jury couldn&#8217;t reach a verdict on, said she was disappointed, but still glad Weinstein couldn&#8217;t victimize anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarvey Weinstein will never be able to rape another woman. He will spend the rest of his life behind bars where he belongs. Harvey Weinstein is a serial predator and what he did was rape,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cThroughout the trial, Weinstein\u2019s lawyers used sexism, misogyny, and bullying tactics to intimidate, demean, and ridicule us survivors. This trial was a stark reminder that we as a society have work to do. To all survivors out there \u2013 I see you, I hear you, and I stand with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pledge.liveaction.org\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=prolife_pledge\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277267\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pledge-live-action-ad-970x250-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disgraced Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein has been convicted on three out of seven charges, including one charge of rape. This is his second sexual assault trial, the first having taken place in New York.\u00a0A California jury was reportedly swayed by the testimony of Jane Doe 1, who said Weinstein arrived at her hotel room uninvited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":282123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,9456],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vocal abortion industry donor Harvey Weinstein found guilty on rape charges<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Disgraced Hollywood titan and Planned Parenthood donor Harvey Weinstein has been convicted on three out of seven charges, including one charge of rape.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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