Posted on 10/10/2024 9:39:45 PM PDT by Morgana
Pro-life activist Heather Idoni, who was imprisoned by the Department of Justice under the Biden administration for trying to rescue the unborn at a late-term abortion clinic in Washington D.C., continues to suffer gross mistreatment at the hands of the U.S. Marshals.
Idoni and her husband, who are both heavily involved in pro-life work, have five biological children and have adopted 10 boys from Ukraine.
Heather has been behind bars since August 2023 and has been convicted and sentenced in two trials — one in Washington, D.C. and another in Nashville, Tennessee — on charges of violating the pro-abortion FACE Act and “conspiracy against rights.” The DOJ and FBI have been heavily involved in both trials, which have targeted peaceful pro-lifers for defending the unborn. Idoni faces further charges in a third trial in Detroit, Michigan, on the same charges.
Calvin Zastrow, fellow pro-life activist and co-defendant in the Nashville case, notified CatholicVote that due to the various trials Idoni has been subject to, she is often moved between federal prisons. Three times now, during transit, the U.S. Marshal responsible for Idoni has tightened the chain around her waist so tight it has been difficult for her to breathe.
The last time this occurred, the Marshal effectively issued a death threat, warning that if Idoni complained, the officer would tighten the chain as much as possible the next time, according to Zastrow. CatholicVote notified Congress of the mistreatment and death threat, and Congressman Chris Smith, Co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and Co-chair of the Pro-life Caucus for the House, has intervened directly with the U.S. Marshals.“Congressman Smith has been assisting Ms. Idoni—and other pro-life advocates who have been treated unjustly—with various issues over the past several months,” Michael Finan, spokesperson for Smith, told CatholicVote.
Idoni has diabetes and suffered a stroke this past spring just a few months after being held in solitary confinement with the lights of her cell kept on continually for 22 days. The treatment qualifies under U.N. standards in the Nelson Mandela Rules as prolonged solitary confinement and torture.
While held in federal prison in Washington, D.C., Idoni was denied some of her diabetes medication as well as essential heart medication prescribed by her doctor following her stroke in March, until Congress directly intervened in the matter. At the time, following a phone call during which Idoni began to experience heart palpitations, this journalist contacted the D.C. Police, who transported Idoni in an emergency dispatch to a hospital for monitoring. The incident resulted in her medication being properly administered thereafter.
While presently awaiting trial in Detroit, Idoni has been placed again in solitary confinement, detained in her cell for 23 hours each day, according to Zastrow. Congress is aware of her mistreatment while behind bars and is working with the U.S. Marshals to rectify the situation.
As CatholicVote has reported, Congressman Chip Roy last week called on fellow members of Congress to repeal the FACE Act, which pro-abortion Democrat President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994 at the request of abortion lobbyists after Planned Parenthood facilities began to close across the country due to the peaceful protests of Operation Rescue. As Roy noted, the FACE Act has become “one of the Biden-Harris administration’s favorite tools to attack the pro-life movement.”
“The administration has disproportionately used it in instances of peaceful, everyday Americans protesting abortion while largely turning a blind eye to hundreds of recorded, violent attacks on pregnancy resource centers and churches in the wake of the leaked Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision,” Roy said.
Roy detailed that his office was able to confirm that “as of May 2024, the Biden-Harris DOJ had charged 24 FACE Act cases against 55 defendants. Two of the cases were filed on behalf of pregnancy resource centers.
“This means that nearly 92% of all Biden-Harris FACE Act cases were brought against pro-life demonstrators, despite over 285 churches and 94 pregnancy resource centers and pro-life groups being attacked and vandalized since May 2022,” Roy decried.
The Biden DOJ has combined FACE violation charges with the charge of “conspiracy against rights” to threaten pro-life activists with 11 years in prison. Former President Donald Trump has condemned the weaponization of federal agencies against pro-life Americans, calling for the release of the pro-lifers the Biden DOJ has thrown behind bars.
All the people involved in doing this to her are going to wish they never existed when they are rotting in hell forever.
bttt
The heavens weep.
I have much sympathy for this woman and her supportive husband. My first response to the story is. if you have 5 bio children and 10(!!!!) adopted Ukrainian boys, what in Sam Hill are you doing out protesting in any manner that could get you arrested, whether the arrest is fair or not?
What are you doing, taking such risks that may cost you your freedom and your family their material stability?
God has blessed you with 5 children. Wonder what the kids think about Mom and Dad’s “Mission”?
I suggest rereading the Bible.
Trump can pardon her on day one. Then I hope that Trump tracks these marshals down and charges them.
More for a sequel someday to the book
Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System
by Judge Jed S. Rakoff
Murderers and child molesters have lighter sentences and better treatment than this woman.
Big hearts but not prudent. Often people with a strong gift may also have a big deficit somewhere else. All we can do when we know someone like that is try to be patient and helpful, just as if their challenge was a physical disability.
This is the same tye of cruelty Democrats displayed in refusing to help victims of Hurricane Helene in NC. They let people die in the mud.
Why would anyone vote to give these awful, heartless monsters power over them?
No Earthly justice prior to the Hell phase?
It’s terrible. No on is coming to help these people.
Maybe
Hopefully
I guess the best thing to do is:
Keep Quiet
Don’t make any statements
Let them tighten your chains
Let them threaten you
And by all means, LET THEM WIN THE ABILITY TO KILL LITTLE BABIES
THIS IS A DISGRACE...ARE WE IN IRAN...VENEZUELA...CUBA OR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Oh, I know, “she was wearing clothes that made her a target”
BLAME THE VICTIM.
God’s punishment is coming soon for the baby murderers!! ..imho
Because, deep inside, they are the same.
I understand what he was saying. That as a Mom with 5 kids and a lot of adopted kids, her first responsibility is to them. I think she could be involved in the Pro-Life movement in another way that didn’t directly put herself in legal jeopardy. I don’t think it is an either/or argument.
Dear, sweet vivenne...there was NO earthly reason to treat an elderly woman that way.....tighten chains...no respect for her beliefs??????
This was a abject way to treat a citizen.
The Left has NO respect for human beings...and that’s the truth
Meanwhile, the Obama Biden admin allowed rioters to loot and burn downtowns all over the US and in most cases looked the other way when there were hate motivated assaults.
Yep, and in hell where there is no longer ANY restraint of evil because the holy spirit will not be present to restrain all put evil any longer. Those in hell are in for a horrible horrible eternity.
Folks claim they would be better off without any religious inf.u3nce in the world, but religious inf,uncertain is the ONLY thing preventing all out hell on earth. People,haven’t even got a clue how bad Eternity in hell is going to be.
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