{"id":326393,"date":"2025-02-14T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=326393"},"modified":"2025-02-14T01:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T07:24:20","slug":"priests-face-trial-pro-life-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/priests-face-trial-pro-life-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Priests face trial over pro-life rescue at New Jersey abortion business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Just weeks after being pardoned by President Trump for convictions of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinics (FACE) Act for pro-life rescue work, Father Fidelis Moscinski, Will Goodman, Father Dave Nix, and an anonymous fourth pro-lifer are preparing for another trial regarding their pro-life activism.<\/p>\n<p>Father Nix <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FrDaveNix\/status\/1889708198182928591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1889708198182928591%7Ctwgr%5E423918b60068ac1283181d75a02d4c0388dbbbfc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcatholicvote.org%2Fpriest-faces-trial-over-red-rose-rescue-new-jersey-abortion-clinic%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> on social media on Wednesday, &#8220;Yesterday, I found out I am finally going to trial for the New Jersey peaceful pro-life rescue and arrest in 2019. Our trial is on 14 Mar 25, the feast of Our Lady Of Sorrows. Trial will be with Fr. Fidelis and Will. Maximum sentence should be 30 days in jail, but join us in praying for zero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FrDaveNix\/status\/1889708199550324775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>, &#8220;The ironic thing is that we would not be going to this old state-trial for a while longer if Fr. Fidelis and Will Goodman had not just been pardoned by Trump at the federal level for their pro-life work. (That pardon got Will out of prison, but Fr. Fidelis was already out of prison.) Still, I&#8217;d rather get it over with since at some point we would have to have faced the state&#8217;s injustice for saving lives in a country where child-slaughter is permitted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QRI6nW-UQ5Q?si=8uNdfNJ0KdHJlAYu\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2019, the four pro-lifers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidernj.com\/press-release\/pro-lifers-conduct-acts-civil-disobedience-morristown-abortion-facility-defense-babies-womb-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entered<\/a> Garden State Gynecology, an abortion business in Morristown, New Jersey, where they offered red roses to women in the waiting room. Each rose included a note that said, &#8220;You were made to love and to be loved\u2026 your goodness is greater than the difficulties of your situation. Circumstances in life change. A new life, however tiny, brings the promise of unrepeatable joy.&#8221; Each note also provided phone numbers of local pregnancy resource centers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QRI6nW-UQ5Q&amp;t=75s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>\u00a0captured their arrests for refusing to leave the building.<\/p>\n<p>Goodman and Fr. Fidelis had previously been in prison for violating the FACE Act, and Goodman was serving a 27-month sentence when Trump issued pardons for 23 pro-lifers on January 23, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/actnow.io\/Vety0KE\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-325597\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-700x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-700x251.png 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-768x275.png 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-500x179.png 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1.png 1167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just weeks after being pardoned by President Trump for convictions of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinics (FACE) Act for pro-life rescue work, Father Fidelis Moscinski, Will Goodman, Father Dave Nix, and an anonymous fourth pro-lifer are preparing for another trial regarding their pro-life activism. Father Nix wrote on social media on Wednesday, &#8220;Yesterday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":206552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Priests face trial over pro-life rescue at New Jersey abortion business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;The ironic thing is that we would not be going to... trial for a while longer if Fr. 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