Fri Aug 25, 2023 – 9:45 am EDTFri Aug 25, 2023 – 9:55 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — One of the pro-life activists caught up in the FACE Act crackdown has spoken out in defense of his former colleague Caroline Davis.
Will Goodman, best known as a Red Rose rescuer, recently published a message on social media asking the pro-life community not to be too hard on the young woman.
Davis testified in DC’s US Circuit Court last week on August 16. This ongoing trial is related to a pro-life rescue protest that was carried in the district’s late-term abortion mill owned by the notorious abortionist Caesar Santangelo.
Davis was a defendant in two separate non-violent direct-action rescues which were later aggressively prosecuted by the Department of Justice.
In an agreement with the federal government, Davis accepted a “guilty” plea in exchange for the hope of obtaining a reduction in her potentially lengthy prison sentence. Besides confessing that she had done something “wrong” in participating in peaceful acts of loving civil disobedience to save lives in danger, the federal government also imposed several other requirements.
One of those requirements was that she must testify as a government witness
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