Charges Dropped Against ‘Red Rose Rescue’ Priest Who Counsels Women Against Abortion

The National Catholic Register ^ | 12/6/22 | Joe Bukuras

[marshmallow]

The group was arrested on Dec. 22, 2018, while participating in the pro-life ministry Red Rose Rescue at the abortion facility in Trenton.

TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey prosecutor has dropped charges against Father Fidelis Moscinski, a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal, and three other pro-life advocates for trespassing at a Planned Parenthood center, according to the law firm defending the group.

The group was arrested on Dec. 22, 2018, while participating in the pro-life ministry Red Rose Rescue at the abortion facility in Trenton.

Father Moscinski is at the same time facing federal charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act — a 1994 law that prohibits the blocking of access to abortion clinics ​​— for an attempt to halt operations and save lives at a New York abortion clinic in July.

Father Moscinski has served jail time for his Red Rose Rescue efforts before. Typically, a rescue involves a pro-life advocate entering the waiting room of an abortion facility to offer a red rose along with pro-life literature. 

The Thomas More Society, a religious freedom law firm, represented Father Moscinski and the three other pro-life advocates, Will Goodman, Patrice Woodward, and Matthew Connolly, in Trenton Municipal Court.

Christopher Ferrara, the group’s lawyer, argued in the case that the women in the abortion facility “had never been given information on the grave psychological consequences of abortion,” the law firm said in a Dec. 5 statement.

The law firm said that studies show having an abortion increases the risk of suicide, drug abuse, exacerbation of preexisting mental illness, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

[lee martell]

This simple case has been allowed to drag on for four years!

[frogjerk]

This is sacrificing for life. God Bless this man and his supporters. God Bless The Thomas More Society!

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

Amen!

[moonhawk]

My wife’s nephew is CFR, stationed in Honduras. I know quite a few of them. Wonderful people.

God bless then all.

[Gay State Conservative]

Although I haven't investigated the details it's my understanding that in Massachusetts if you get within something like a half mile of an abortion mill and utter a single word in opposition of abortion you can get 5 years in state prison.

That's how depraved some states' politicians are.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yes,one must admire Father Moscinski and his aides enormously.

[frank ballenger]

I shudder to think what the new Michigan laws will demand. The newly passed Constitutional amendment protects abortions at all months through birth and protects all phases of gender change including making sure schools do not have to inform parents that their school will now be giving hypodermic injections to change the child’s normal hormones. Probably will go hard on any protests now. A phony civil right of women to kill babies as “reproductive health.”

I was dismayed to learn the Google Maps feature was deliberately altered to take away results showing pregnancy crisis counseling centers of any kind. So evil.

[JJBookman]

If he were with ANTIFA or BLM and burned a couple of buildings down, the political stooges (otherwise know as the cops) would not have even touched him!