Posted on 05/16/2024 6:47:46 AM PDT by Morgana
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Below is the full statement of pro-life advocate John Hinshaw before being sentenced to 21 months in prison on Tuesday for blocking access to late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo’s Washington Surgi-Clinic facility in the nation’s capital.
It is the middle of the night, which, we know, means early, early morning. My wife rises from our bed and walks her house alone. The slightest discomfort in one of her children displaces her from sleep. The smallest sniffle in one of her grandbabies will disturb her sleep for days. For she is a mother and, as such, is bound to the deepest link on this planet. To call it a bond is an insufficient term. It IS a covenantal bond, but this too is an insufficient term of description. To call it a relationship is an insult. This deep, deep unity is one of those rare, truly inexpressible things that words cannot do justice to. My wife knows she carries the DNA of each and every one of her children into eternal life.
I am a man and, as such, I am only an observer of his prized unity. I cannot share it with my wife. It is enough that I love these same children and grandchildren. It is enough that I would die for them. And her. For this, she lets me live with her. And love her.
My wife knows that as a man I cannot share this with her, so she allows me to sleep on through these lonely hours. This, THIS sacred unity my country, through her courts, has ferociously attacked throughout my lifetime.
During this unjust imprisonment we were gifted with another baby granddaughter, Charlotte Millie, a feisty little girl who came early: 32 weeks’ gestation. I know this court only considers her a “would-be child” at that age. At 32 weeks’ gestation, she was at the same age as Phoenix, Harriet, Holly, Christopher X, and Angel, the Washington Five slain by Santangelo. They are named today in honor of their eternal dignity. What makes my granddaughter a treasure and these five trash?? How is this allowed? HOW IS THIS ALLOWED???? It is allowed by courts covering up the crimes of Santangelo.
It’s allowed by the corrupt Department of Justice seeking to destroy the evidence of Santangelo’s crimes. It’s allowed by the FBI providing private security services to Santangelo. Today, we are truth in this court, and the truth is in the ultrasound – we’ve all seen the arms, legs, toes, nose, the smiles, the swallows, the snuggles – why is there fear? New life, new love – why fear? Give them to us, we do not fear them. We will show you how to conquer fear and how to love them and raise them. Give them to us.
Today, I am told, is an opportunity for me to say I’m sorry, and so I am sorry. Sorry for having failed in the vocation bestowed upon me the day I became a father. The vocation of protecting children. I have failed this miserably, and so I apologize to this court, as I believe my failure contributes to the failure of this court to fulfill its vocation to protect the innocent. And this failure of the court thus contributes to my failure.
I am sorry in my failure to the bereaved mother suffering a child lost to abortion. We are a nation of bereaved mothers. All of us know some of the millions of broken hearts. I am sorry I was not there on the day of her crucible. We have the way of healing to offer.
I am sorry to my children, leaving to them the struggle that killed a third of their generation, like Wold War I returned!? Friends they never got to meet. Their generation that dreams the dreams of their phone, not the dreams of their own. We gave them the language of pornography not the language of love. We told them “despair and go rejoice” and they have told us in a thousand ways they cannot do both. Of course they can’t. We alone have the words and ways of hope and joy. My patron saint wrote 2,000 years ago: “We know we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death” (1 John 3:14).
We extend our hands again to offer the Culture of Life to this guilty land.
So all the years of court-protected slaughter have led us here, where I stand convicted, though guiltless. SENT, as I am, to take upon myself the guilt of this court. I stand here for Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, to accept the punishment rightly hers. The Latin term for this is spem in alium. And as I open my arms to plead the mercy of this court on Kollar-Kotelly, I ask the One True Judge, Whom she and I will be seeing very soon, to accept my act of love toward her as expiation of her great guilt of pride, indifference, and intolerance.
So from the depths of my cell I will continue to unite my cries with those of the children, whose cries rise nightly to their mothers’ ears, who weep, with Rachel, for their children who are no more.
It is the same hour of the night my wife arises.
I just posted this one, take a look
This is something that's always baffled me about the young adults who support the Dims. Abortion killed 1/3rd of the generation that was born the past half a century (since Roe v Wade). To me it's like if shortly after WW2, if the Jewish survivors in Germany had said, "We ought to vote for the Nazis. They seem to have our best interests at heart."
If Trump is reelected it will be difficult but not impossible to clean out the Washington,DC judiciary.
I hate what this country is becoming. And it would not sadden me one bit if these judges got what's coming to them if there is ever full blown civil war.
“And it would not sadden me one bit if these judges got what’s coming to them if there is ever full blown civil war.”
Remember Rush Limbaugh’s book “The Way Things Ought To Be”? he said abortion would be America’s next civil war. Think how long ago that was and how correct he was about a lot of things.
I have been posting these articles a long time now and YES I see a civil war coming over this.
I am very especially thankful to have discovered Rush Limbaugh at that precise moment in my life, because he shaped much of my early political character.
Not long after his second book came out I was working at another restaurant. I called Rush's number one day and got through to him. I told him everyone in our restaurant loved him. For the next two weeks people kept coming in wanting to "meet the guy who talked to Rush." It was great!! :-D
I've still got the audio cassette of the call, too.
A noble man. The LORD bless him and keep him, but only Jesus can atone for sin.
It’s no accident we as a country have imported nearly the same number of humans to replace the missing natives sacrificed through abortion.
Heroes...
When I shouted that from the rooftops twenty five years ago I was labeled a problem among my peers. Any actuarial knows this from their first day.
“It’s no accident we as a country have imported nearly the same number of humans to replace the missing natives sacrificed through abortion”
The Greatest Crime in history: the destruction of the American population and its replacement by aliens, both legal and illegal.
Very eloquent... a hero.
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