Christian woman who survived concentration camp prepares to die in US prison over FACE Act charges

April 24, 2024

The Christian Post reports that an 88 year old Christian woman who survived a communist concentration camp in Eastern Europe is preparing to die in prison after being convicted for protesting at a Nashville abortion clinic.

Eva Edl was among the eleven protestors charged by the U.S. Dept. of Justice under the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. A federal judge found Edl and four other protestors guilty earlier this month.

According to the Christian Post, the protestors were accused of intimidating and interfering “with employees of the clinic and a patient who was seeking reproductive health services” at the Carafem Health Center Clinic in March of 2021.

Edl also faces charges in relation to a 2020 protest at a Sterling Heights, Michigan abortion clinic as well as a 2021 protest in Saginaw, Michigan.

All told, Edl faces up to 11 years in prison and $350,000 in fines.

In an interview with The Daily Signal, Edl said she is resigned to the possibility that she may die in prison. Edl stated, “When I was indicted, I began to prepare to die there. Right now, I am ambivalent. … I’m doing the best I can to get ready. Haven’t talked to a funeral director yet.”

Edl warned that the U.S. government is becoming like the communist regime that imprisoned her and her family in the Gakovo concentration camp in the former Yugoslavia when she was 9 years old.

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