This morning activists with the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising conducted a protest outside Rayburn US House of Representatives building to demand #JusticeForTheFive babies discovered by PAAU activists last year.
Holding images of the victims, the activists then moved into the street and blocked traffic in both directions. Police arrested 7 of the activists as they sang and chanted, calling upon congress to hold hearings for the babies and to pass a national abortion ban at viability.
TODAY: PAAU held a press conference and demonstration outside the DC Board of Medicine demanding the revocation of abortionist Cesare Santangelo’s license to dispense medication…
We call for this because of his ongoing and documented history of violations against informed consent national standards of medical care, and continually botching of procedures that has led to the death of at least one patient.
…The abortion worker informs the investigator that she may not speak w/ the provider about the details of the procedure before taking multiple Xanax tablets
A report was filed in 06/22 w/ the DC Board of Medicine demanding answers for this breach of ethics surrounding consent
Santangelo is facing additional malpractice lawsuits including 1 death of a patient by uterine perforation & a lawsuit filed in 08/22 in which a patient alleges she was denied informed consent when he charged her for a 23 week abortion when in fact her baby was already deceased.
@Terrisalin, PAAU founder and Executive Director said “The DC Board of Medicine is conspiring with Mayor Bowser and the DCPD to cover up the gross medical misconduct of a killer in order to protect their own political careers. This is the opposite of leadership and justice…
WASHINGTON D.C.—On Wednesday, February 21st, Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) Director of Activism, Lauren Handy, appeared in federal court after being surreptitiously recorded by an undercover informant
for the Federal Bureau of Investigation during a recent PAAU meeting. The prosecutors attempted to claim this recording of Handy discussing plans for nonviolent direct actions in and around abortion businesses was a violation of her terms of release in her ongoing federal case
which stipulate she is prohibited from entering abortion centers.
Handy made headlines last year when she along with 10 others including PAAU Executive Board member Herb Geraghty and pro-life icon Joan Andrews Bell were charged under the FACE Act (Freedom of Access to Clinic