Wed Aug 30, 2023 – 10:50 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – At a prayer vigil held at a jail just hours after the August 29 arrest of the pro-life rescuers convicted in the D.C. FACE Act trial, John Paul Hinshaw shared with supporters the last words of his father just before he was summoned to the courtroom for the jury’s verdict that resulted in John Hinshaw’s immediate incarceration for standing up to defend the lives of the unborn.
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JP Hinshaw said his father had recounted to friends the famous 1979 “We will stand up” homily of Pope St. John Paul II delivered near the U.S. Capitol in the presence of the Supreme Court Justices who had ruled in Roe v. Wade. John Hinshaw had drawn special inspiration from John Paul II’s courageous witness to life on that occasion.
In that homily, the Pope declared, “I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages is sacred, because human life is created in the image
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