Attorneys for an anti-abortion activist convicted of violating federal law by plotting to blockade a D.C. clinic made an emergency request Wednesday for a judge to release her from jail while she awaits sentencing.
 

A jury convicted Lauren Handy and four co-defendants Tuesday of two felony counts each of conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. At trial, prosecutors described Handy as the leader of a plot to blockade the Washington Surgi-Clinic on F Street in October 2020. Video from the blockade shows several of Handy’s co-defendants using ropes and chains to tie themselves to chairs in front of one clinic entrance while others stood in front of a second door and refused to let patients through

In a move that caught defense attorneys off-guard, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered all five defendants remanded into custody while they await sentencing because they had been convicted of a crime of violence. Kollar-Kotelly cited a federal statute that says judges “shall order” defendants convicted of serious felony crimes of violence held after conviction unless they believe they have a substantial likelihood of winning a motion for acquittal or a new trial or the government recommends a sentence without prison time.

Although a clinic employee suffered an ankle injury when members of the anti-abortion group forced their way into the clinic, none of the defendants was charged with assault or causing injury. However, the FACE Act requires jurors to decide whether the offense was “exclusively a nonviolent physical obstruction” or involved the use of force. The jury decided as part of its verdict Tuesday that the conspiracy to blockade the Surgi-Clinic was not exclusively nonviolent

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/anti-abortion-activist-seeks-emergency-release-from-jail-after-clinic-blockade-conviction/ar-AA1g00x1

No, in this country they have the right to protest.  Unlike the left, they don't seem to be burning down cities and attacking the baby murders.  Peaceful protest is legal.

And yet she’s throwing them in prison!

And without bail to boot!

Persecution of pro-life Christians if you ask me.

FWIW

It appears to be.

Here is the crux of the matter:
"However, the FACE Act requires jurors to decide whether the offense was “exclusively a nonviolent physical obstruction” or involved the use of force. The jury decided as part of its verdict Tuesday that the conspiracy to blockade the Surgi-Clinic was not exclusively nonviolent."

So it was essentially the jury that sent these defendants to jail. It's an odd law.
IMO, there's an additional question of what led the jury to that conclusion. I wasn't there, but (conjecture only) it may have been some of the protestors blocking the women from entering the clinic.

Non violence should get them probationary and community service but not prison time. Yes. I think your comment is what happened. But we’ve see far worse protests with violence for other reasons where the protestors walked.

Not sure what this is about. "Late term abortion" is a misnomer because technically, these are TERMINATIONS of a non-viable or already dead fetus. I don't know anything about 5 late term protesters. People have the right to "peacefully assemble" and therefore to protest but they do NOT have the right to cause physical harm (shooting doctors or bombing clinics).