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A Finnish grandmother could be sent to prison for six years for expressing her Christian beliefs publicly.
Päivi Räsänen is a member of parliament in Finland, a former Minister of the Interior, a medical doctor, grandmother and a strong Christian. She is widely known for defending conservative Christian views and speaking out against abortion and euthanasia.
Now, however, Räsänen is facing three criminal charges for alleged “hate speech” for comments that she made during news interviews and online, Christianity Daily reports. If convicted, her lawyers said she could face up to six years in prison.
Räsänen said she will not back down or be intimidated, and she hopes her legal battle will help ensure that no one is deprived of their freedom of speech.
“I cannot accept that voicing my religious beliefs could mean imprisonment,” she said in a statement. “I do not consider myself guilty of threatening, slandering or insulting anyone. My statements were all based on the Bible’s teachings on marriage and sexuality.”
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ADF International, which represents her, said authorities accused her of “hate speech” for publicly voicing her opinion on marriage and human sexuality in a 2004 pamphlet, her comments on a 2018 TV show and a 2019 tweet criticizing her church leaders’ decision to support a “Pride” celebration. She is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.
“Despite the police previously concluding that no crime had been committed, the Prosecutor General re-opened the file,” ADF International responded.
Her lawyers said she attended several lengthy interviews with police about her views in 2019, and then waited more than a year before the General Prosecutor decided to continue prosecution.
On March 5, 2020, she learned that the Prosecutor General had launched two more investigations against her, her lawyers said. One is about her comments discussing her faith and religious issues on a TV show in 2018 called, “Yökylässä Maria Veitola.” The other involves a December 2019 radio interview that she participated in; the topic was “What would Jesus think about homosexuals?”
Paul Coleman, executive director of ADF International, said cases like Räsänen’s are becoming all too common throughout Europe.
“If committed civil servants like Päivi Räsänen are criminally charged for voicing their deeply held beliefs, it creates a chilling effect for everyone’s right to speak freely,” Coleman said.
Räsänen said she will not remain silent or allow the government to censor her.
“I will not be intimidated into hiding my faith,” she said. “The more Christians keep silent on controversial themes, the narrower the space for freedom of speech gets.”
The Obama-Biden administration used Americans’ tax dollars to buy skulls and other body parts from second-trimester aborted babies, according to recently uncovered government documents.
Obtained by Judicial Watch, the documents show numerous emails and transactions between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR), a human tissue procurement group that works with Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities.
Multiple documents show FDA requests for organs from aborted babies up to 24 weeks of pregnancy for scientific research involving “humanized mice.”
These include a receipt from ABR that lists “intact calvariums,” or skulls, from babies who were aborted between eight and 24 weeks of pregnancy, The Federalist reports.
The document, “Fees for services schedule effective Jan. 1, 2013,” shows the service fees that ABR charged “per specimen”; however, the amounts were redacted.
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Under the heading “Fetal cadaverous procurement,” ABR included “intact calvarium” from aborted babies between 8 and 24 weeks of pregnancy, as well as “2nd trimester D&E (13 – 24 weeks)” and “1st trimester aspiration (8 – 12 weeks).”
Other documents show that the FDA asked ABR for livers and thymuses from second-trimester aborted babies between 16 and 24 weeks. It specified that the babies’ bodies must be “free of known chromosomal abnormalities” and “fresh and never frozen.” The FDA explained that the aborted babies’ organs would be used to create “humanized mice” for scientific experiments.
Interestingly, in many of the documents, the humanity of these babies is obvious. The word “humanized” indicates that the aborted babies were unique, living human beings. And while the FDA referred to their organs as “tissue” and never to the babies from whom they came, it also acknowledged in a roundabout way that the aborted babies were, in fact, babies by mentioning their “mothers” on multiple occasions.
Under the Obama administration, at least $77 million tax dollars were spent on research projects that used aborted baby body parts, according to The Hill.
“We’ve done business with the F.D.A. for many years …” an ABR employee wrote in another email to a Food and Drug Administration contract specialist, dated July 18, 2017.
Several years ago, David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress uncovered evidence of potentially illegal sales of human body parts by Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups. The undercover investigation also found abortionists allegedly were putting women’s lives at risk by altering abortion procedures to better harvest their aborted babies’ body parts. It also found evidence of possible patient privacy violations.
As a result, authorities in Orange County, California shut down two of Planned Parenthood’s business partners after they admitted to selling aborted baby body parts.
The investigation and resulting outrage also prompted President Donald Trump’s administration to stop funding scientific research that uses aborted baby body parts. However, in April, President Joe Biden’s administration reversed Trump’s actions and allowed tax dollars to be used for the unethical research again.
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