Lauren Handy is passionate about protecting helpless children. She helped recover a box from a D.C. abortion clinic labeled for a Maryland incinerator. Inside, there were the bodies of 115 dead babies being sent to a company boasting about turning medical waste into electricity.

She retrieved a box from the man who came to pick up the babies for transport to the Maryland company. When she opened the box, she told the man, “I’m telling the babies that I’m sorry, and that I love them and I’m so sorry. That I’m sorry I failed them ... and that I couldn't save them, and I couldn't help their parents. And that I was just so sorry.”

Lauren alerted law enforcement, and surprise, she was arrested by the FBI!

She was criminally charged under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances law (FACE), convicted, and sentenced to almost five years in prison.

Our team has defended multiple people in court where pro-abortion state and federal prosecutors used FACE to silence pro-life speech. FACE must be removed from the arsenal of these prosecutors. Urge Congress to pass the FACE Act Repeal Act of 2025 to stop our government from being weaponized again.

Tragically, what she discovered in that abortion clinic is not new.

In 2000, ABC’s 20/20 with Connie Chung aired a program on abortionists in Washington, D.C., harvesting baby body parts. Testifying before Congress, one person said: “What changed my mind [about abortion] was watching late-term abortions, seeing their eyes looking at me as I cut through their skull to extract their brain for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s patients, cutting open their chest cavity, only to see a beating heart moving ever so slowly until it stopped.”

The evil that is happening behind closed doors is unbelievable. Yet, by using FACE, the abortion industry is systematically silencing the voice of pro-life advocates, and babies are being sent to slaughter.

THIS MUST STOP, AND NOW IS THE BEST TIME TO END IT. Urge Congress to pass this repeal of the FACE Act and end the weaponization of state and federal prosecutors.

Those who opened the box described what happened next:

Lauren cut the box open. Inside was a red bag, and she cut open the bag. And immediately she knew, and she said out loud “It’s babies, it’s full of babies.”

There were small, round, turquoise plastic containers. We unpacked 110 of them. 110 unborn children. And we found also five much larger containers packed within the box, one of those containers significantly larger than the other four.

And so we opened the largest container first. Lauren had triple gloves on — she reached in, and she immediately said, “This one is whole.” And we’re all just watching.

And she puts a fully formed baby onto the table who was, we could tell, much older than our 22-week fetal model, for example.

This baby was clearly over 30 weeks and completely whole, and his skin was pink.

He was just the most beautiful baby boy, and we just lost it in that moment. We were just all kind of holding on being strong, trying to get through this. And then this was just completely shattering emotionally. We were weeping, we were cursing the people that did this to him. It was just soul crushing to experience.

Five days later, D.C. authorities used the FACE Act to silence Lauren.

The weaponization against pro-life speech by state and federal prosecutors must end. THIS MUST END NOW!

Back in 1983, as a pastor, I had no idea about abortion. Then I watched a documentary called Assignment Life. I witnessed a first-trimester abortion that had been filmed. I was shaken to the core when I watched as the baby’s body was reconstructed on the stainless-steel table. THIS IS A HUMAN BEING! My silence turned into a commitment to fight for the unborn.

I could NOT walk away and do nothing. Abortion was the turning point that moved me from being a full-time pastor to a lawyer. I attended law school and became an attorney and have been fighting to stop this genocide ever since, but the raw evil happening right now to these babies continues to shock me.

You can help stop this abuse by repealing FACE. Your gift to our organization helps us fight and win this critical battle. Our 2025 Challenge Grant will DOUBLE THE IMPACT OF YOUR GIFT.

Pray with us. Grieve with us. And then demand justice!

Mat Staver, Chairman
John Stemberger, President
Liberty Counsel Action

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“Induced Abortion in the United States.” The Guttmacher Institute, September 2019. Guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/factsheet/fb_induced_abortion.pdf.

“Lauren Handy: ‘These Children Were Murdered.’” The Pillar Catholic, April 5, 2022. Pillarcatholic.com/p/lauren-handy-these-children-were.‌

Resnick, Sofia. “Why Were There Fetuses in an Anti-Abortion Activist’s Home?” The Cut, May 13, 2022. Thecut.com/article/indicted-anti-abortion-activist-lauren-handy-fetuses.html.

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