Posted on 07/09/2024 4:15:37 AM PDT by Morgana
Pro-lifer Cal Zastrow has been sentenced to six months in prison over his participation in a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility March 2021.
Zastrow was sentenced by Judge Aleta Trauger on Wednesday in federal court in Nashville. Trauger sentenced him to six months in prison and three years of supervised release. She did not impose a fine on him. He must self report to prison by October 1.
When given a chance to speak, Zastrow spoke of his Christian faith and how it drove him to advocate for unborn babies.
He said he tried to live his life “under the Lordship of Jesus Christ,” and that “children are a blessing from God.”
To conclude, he read from Revelation 5:11-14.
Trauger was critical of Zastrow’s “religious fervor,” saying that it led him to cause pain to others. She told Zastrow that she didn’t need to hear a sermon.
He is now a felon, meaning he can’t vote or own a firearm.
President Joe Biden’s Justice Department brought charges against Zastrow and 10 other pro-lifers present at a sit-in at the Carafem Health Center Clinic in Mt. Juliet.
During the protest where Zastrow was present, a group of pro-lifers gathered on the second floor of an office building in the hallway outside Carafem. The group prayed, sang hymns, and urged women showing up to the clinic not to get abortions. No one present was charged with committing any violence.
The sentencing came one day after their co-defendant Paul Vaughn was sentenced. Trauger did not impose a prison sentence on Vaughn despite the Biden administration’s request that he be sentenced to one year behind bars.
When given an opportunity to speak, Vaughn said that the “reason I am engaged in activities is because I care for my country.”
An overflow room crowded with supporters of Vaughn watching the proceedings at the courthouse erupted into cheers after Trauger said she would impose no jail time. Trauger said she based her decision in part on his four years of service in the Navy and statements from those in his city and county.
The Thomas More Society, which is representing Vaughn, is expected to appeal his conviction.
Several others convicted of conspiracy against rights over the Carafem sit-in will be sentenced later today, including Coleman Boyd and Dennis Green.
Hundreds of supporters of the pro-lifers gathered at Christ Church Nashville on Monday and Tuesday to rally in support of the activists ahead of their sentencing. At the rallies, attendees sang, prayed, and heard from Christian pastors. Many also gathered on Monday and Tuesday outside federal court in Nashville ahead of the sentencing.
6 month prison sentence?..... Wait till they see what the “sentence” is for the murderors of all those little babies!! It has been announced by Jesus!
Zastrow that she didn’t need to hear a sermon.
Some how I think she did need to hear a sermon
On March 14, 2014, Judge Trauger ruled that Tennessee must recognize the same-sex marriages of three couples who were legally married out-of-state, issuing an injunction against the state’s ban on such recognition in favor of only those three couples.[9] In the underlying case, the plaintiff couples challenged Tennessee’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Amendment 1, a constitutional amendment approved by 81.3 percent of voters in 2006.[10] The plaintiffs did not challenge the state’s constitutional amendment in its totality, but rather focused on its refusal to recognize same-sex marriages legally consummated in other states. In her opinion, Judge Trauger noted that the state’s anti-recognition laws failed to pass constitutional muster, writing: “At this point, all signs indicate that, in the eyes of the United States Constitution, the plaintiffs’ marriages will be placed on an equal footing with those of heterosexual couples and that proscriptions against same-sex marriage will soon become a footnote in the annals of American history.[9][11][12] ”
On March 18, 2014, Tennessee’s attorney general filed an appeal with the Sixth Circuit, requesting that Judge Trauger’s decision be stayed pending the case’s resolution in the court system. On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed the rights of same-sex married couples to marry and to have those marriages recognized under the Full Faith and Credit Clause.[13][14]
Nominated by (Hillary) Clinton. Get where she is coming from?
If abortion were about “the woman’s body” (my body my choice), then she would be the one to die, not the unborn baby. Instead, she murders ANOTHER BODY that is growing inside her.
This is what they mean by “My body, My choice”
“I’m personally against decapitating, dismembering, or poisoning other human beings, but people should be free to choose”
It would be justice, a wonderful justice, if Judge Aleta Trauger, Joe Biden, and all of the malicious prosecutors in the justice department were to be ripped limb from limb without anesthesia.
Probably won’t happen, but if it did it would warrant a new national holiday to celebrate. Justice Day.
Seems like the defendant was just trying to protect innocent, defenseless Americans.
Trauger was critical of Zastrow’s “religious fervor,” saying that it led him to cause pain to others. It amazes me how they don’t see the hypocrisy. I know, they don’t see the child as a human yet, and the child isn’t developed yet, and the child doesn’t feel pain, blah blah blah. She definitely needed to hear about Jesus.
As usual, in this tyrannical society, the American serfs shrug their shoulders and mumble a little before going back about their daily lives...
Bliss is so wonderful in a cravenly cowardly society...
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