{"id":292895,"date":"2023-06-10T11:46:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=292895"},"modified":"2023-06-13T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:02:57","slug":"new-york-ag-charges-red-rose-rescuers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-york-ag-charges-red-rose-rescuers\/","title":{"rendered":"New York AG to charge Red Rose rescuers, calls them ‘bigoted zealots’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The state of New York brought state and federal charges against six Red Rose Rescue activists, requesting punishment and the creation of a 30-foot \u201cbuffer zone\u201d around abortion businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s lawsuit was filed by Attorney General Letitia James in the Southeastern District Court of New York and names Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, Laura Gies, William Goodman, Matthew Connolly, and John Hinshaw as defendants. James focused on attempts to obstruct operations at All Women\u2019s Care in Manhasset, Nassau County; All Women\u2019s Care in Manhasset, Nassau County; and Planned Parenthood in Hempstead, Nassau County.<\/span><\/p>\n

Collectively, the group has seen multiple trespassing convictions and jail sentences but Red Rose Rescue activists have generally expressed an interest in continuing to disrupt abortion facility activities despite punishment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRed Rose Rescue has made it their mission to terrorize reproductive health care providers and the patients they serve,\u201d said James. \u201cOnly we have the right to make decisions about our own bodies \u2014 not anti-choice legislators, and not bigoted zealots.\u201d James is seeking injunctive action through the FACE Act and New York Clinic Access Act, which prohibit acts designed to obstruct clinic use.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group\u2019s website maintains it engages in peaceful protest and <\/span>asserts<\/span><\/a> that \u201c[u]njust imprisonment is a spiritual extension of the rescue and an opportunity to continue to witness to the unborn whom Red Rose Rescuers sought to defend. In jail, the Red Rose Rescuers will pray, fast, serve fellow inmates, and offer reparation for the sin of abortion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The group says their actions have been successful in preventing the killing of preborn children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lauren Handy, who participates in rescues and was indicted under FACE, responded to the lawsuit on Twitter. \u201cRescues and ProLife non violent direct action works,\u201d she said on Friday. \u201cLives are being saved[.] Pregnancy resource orgs tell us people contact them after getting roses[.] This is about money[.] Good luck getting money from a bunch of people who have taken voluntary poverty promises.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rescues and ProLife non violent direct action works <\/p>\n

Lives are being saved<\/p>\n

Pregnancy resource orgs tell us people contact them after getting roses<\/p>\n

This is about money<\/p>\n

Good luck getting money from a bunch of people who have taken voluntary poverty promises \ud83d\ude44 https:\/\/t.co\/rsizCamt45<\/a><\/p>\n

— CatholicBandito\ud83c\udff4\ud83e\udde1 #StopCopCity (@repreaux) June 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n