Pro-Life Advocate Herb Geraghty Released From Prison After Trump Pardons Pro-Lifers
Thanks to Joe Biden’s politicized Justice Department, pro-life advocate Herb Geraghty has been sentenced to 27 months in prison under the FACE Act just for engaging in a peaceful protest inside an abortion center.
Today Herb is free after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pardoning all 23 pro-life prisoners Biden persecuted.
In a message posted on X, Herb said the pro-life work continues and imprisonment won’t stop the fight to protect babies from abortions.
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“I’ll be celebrating with friends and loved ones this weekend but the work doesn’t stop toward seeking justice for the unborn and liberation for us all from this culture of death and exploitation,” Herb said.
“I cannot express the gratitude I have everyone who wrote me, sent books, donated, and advocated for myself and the other FACE defendants since the start of my incarceration a year and a half ago,” Herb added. “I am grateful that President Trump kept his promise to pro-life voters and issued these pardons, allowing me to walk out of FDC Philadelphia earlier this evening.”
Although Herb has been released from prison a pardon has not been accepted so Herb can continue fighting the unjust prosecution in court.
Herb participated in the rescue out of a deep moral conviction to protect the lives of the unborn. The decision to decline a pardon allows for further scrutiny of the unjust application of the FACE Act, which has been distorted to suppress peaceful advocacy.
Life Legal Defense Foundation attorney John Kiyonaga, who is representing Herb, emphasized the broader implications of the case: “Herb’s decision to forgo a pardon is a bold statement against politically motivated prosecutions that trample on free speech and peaceful protest rights. Herb declined to seek a pardon in deference to a desire to seek a reversal of this unjust conviction through appellate review.”
Herb has already served 17 months of an unjust 27-month sentence, enduring separation from family and friends while continuing to advocate for the humanity of unborn children.
“We support Herb’s unwavering commitment to protecting innocent lives and exposing the injustices faced by peaceful pro-life advocates,” said Life Legal CEO Alexandra Snyder.
During the rescue, Herb entered the building that houses the abortion clinic to peacefully encourage women to choose life. Initially cited for trespass, Herb was never prosecuted for that charge. However, two years after the event, the U.S. Department of Justice under the Biden-Harris administration brought charges against nine pro-lifers present that day, including Herb. The group faced violations of the FACE Act and conspiring to deprive others of their “right” to abortion under an obscure Civil War-era statute originally enacted to prosecute members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Each of the nine pro-lifers received harsh sentences ranging from 21 to 57 months in federal prison. Herb, a committed pacifist, was struck by an abortion worker during the rescue. Despite this, a D.C. jury determined that Herb’s presence constituted intentional blocking under the FACE Act.
Like fellow pro-life advocate Lauren Handy, Geraghty found guilty on all counts the Biden administration brought against them for allegedly violating the FACE law.
Those pro-lifers on trial conducted a rescue at the Washington Surgi-Clinic operated by the notorious late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo who was busted by a LiveAction undercover investigator for admitting that he would not help a child with life-saving efforts if he or she survived a late-term abortion. He emphatically stated that a nearby hospital’s efforts to save the life of a child he was trying to abort was “the stupidest thing they could have done.”
Lauren Handy and Herb Geraghty cited those videos as the reason for the rescue and protest at the abortion business because of the concern babies might be left to die. They chained themselves to the entrance of the abortion center in an attempt to stop abortions.
The rescuers were given 115 aborted babies by the driver of a medical waste van outside Santangelo’s late-term abortion facility. The babies were well-developed – second and possibly third trimester. Their remains are still in a vault at the D.C. medical examiner’s office.
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In October 2020, about two months after the remains were obtained, the nine pro-lifers blocked the entrance of the abortion facility and protesting abortion.
However, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton nominee, would not allow the video to be used as evidence. She also prohibited the defendants from arguing their actions were protected by the First Amendment or were committed in defense of a third person, unborn children.
“This is a clear abuse of power and a sign that the Biden administration is using the Department of Justice to attack political targets—particularly those of us who believe in the right to life for all human beings,” Geraghty, a member of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, told The Daily Signal late last year.
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