Conservative reporter Mia Cathell tweeted images of the pro-life activists now facing charges. “Meet the Christian memaws and papaws charged as ‘co-conspirators’ now facing up to 11 years in federal prison for a peaceful ‘blockade’ demonstration,” she writes. One person’s passport was confiscated, she reports, and another person’s request to take a humanitarian trip to Ukraine was denied by a judge.
Cathell says the defendants prayed and read Scripture, leading protests that were more akin to church services. “Biden’s DOJ is coming after 87-year-old Eva Edl, a pro-life icon arrested 40+ times for blockading abortion clinics and a survivor of a communist concentration camp,” she tweets. “Instead of charging the far-left terrorists who have firebombed numerous pregnancy centers, Biden’s DOJ is targeting this pro-life grandmother and bookstore owner for peacefully protesting at an abortion clinic.”
Pro-Life Dr. Coleman Boyd Protested Jackson’s ‘Pink House’
Dr. Boyd, who filmed the March 2021 Mount Juliet arrests, frequently protested at the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, previously the only abortion clinic in Mississippi. Known as the Pink House, Jackson was at the heart of June’s Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court ruling, which effectively overturned 1973’s Roe v. Wade.
In July, Boyd posted information about a Rally for Life at the Jackson clinic. He wrote, “Innocent children are being put to death every day across this country and in the [Pink House] in Jackson, MS! Christian, will you join us to open our mouths for our speechless neighbors who are being led to destruction? Are you willing to lay your life down to love the least of these?”
Mississippi was one of 13 U.S. states with “trigger” laws that banned or tightly restricted abortion once Roe was overturned. After recognizing that chances of a speedy ruling on its appeal were “dim,” Jackson’s owners sold the building in July.
