ProLife activists have won another welcome victory in the USA. fter a successful pro-life rescue that temporarily closed a Pennsylvania abortion centre, involved arrests and initial jail time of several days, six Red Rose Rescue activists had all criminal charges against them dismissed on Monday at the Delaware County Courthouse in Media.
The rescuers included Dr. Monica M. Miller, Eric Holmberg, Will Goodman, ChristyAnne Collins, Patty Woodworth, and Joan Andrews Bell.
“We came out on top for sure,” Miller told LifeSiteNews regarding their successful July 31 rescue at the Delaware County Women’s Center and their ability to simply walk out of the courtroom yesterday and celebrate a successful plea hearing.
An August 6 press release from Red Rose Rescue (RRR) explained how the six activists were peacefully offering roses to mothers going into the chemical abortion facility along with resources for alternatives to abortion.
They also provided information to abortion center staff regarding how they could depart the abortion industry and access support from former abortion staff members who had become pro-life.
The rescuers were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and “defiant” trespass after they refused to leave the abortion center at the request of police officers, to whom they explained “we cannot leave as long as the unborn are scheduled to be killed.”
Some of the rescuers were treated harshly by the police, and, oddly, the respective rescuers were held in the “filthy overcrowded” county jail for periods of one to six days.
But as a result of their rescue efforts, the abortion facility closed and thus they celebrated that all the abortion appointments for that day were cancelled.
This particular abortion center only provides chemical abortions through the use of the lethal pill mifepristone, and Miller explained that “there were about eight women that were already in there being readied for their abortion pill regimen. The clinic shut down because of our rescue. Every woman walked out of there without the kill pills.”
“That meant that at least the unborn children had a reprieve of their execution. And this really also gave women an opportunity to change their minds,” said Miller, who serves as director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society. “So, we’ve been keeping those moms in prayer.”