activist who kept fetuses in a Capitol Hill home was convicted Tuesday of illegally blockading a reproductive health clinic in D.C.violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act
Handy, prosecutors said, used a fake name to book an appointment to determine the time abortions were performed at the clinic so she and others could arrive to prevent patients from entering. Crabb then outlined each defendant’s roles: He said Goodman carried ropes and chains into the clinic that the others used to tie themselves to chairs and each other. Idoni was shown on video standing in front of a door to the clinic and telling a police officer she would not let a patient who had arrived to have an abortion go inside. Hinshaw used the chains to tie himself to chairs that blocked the doors that allowed patients to the back of the clinic.
The case gained additional notoriety when, the same day a federal indictment was announced against the defendants, D.C. policein a Capitol Hill rowhouse basement where Handy had been staying. The criminal trial, however, has nothing to do with the fetuses antiabortion activists say they collected from outside the same D.C. abortion clinic and authorities have not charged anyone in that matter.