Joel Curry

Joel Curry was one of seven pro-life activists convicted on August 20, 2024, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan of conspiracy against rights (18 U.S.C. § 241) and violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act, 18 U.S.C. § 248), arising out of a blockade of the Northland Family Planning Clinic in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on August 27, 2020. The blockade was organized as part of the "Michigan Holiness Revival Tour," a camping trip arranged by co-defendant Calvin Zastrow with the express purpose of blockading a reproductive health clinic. Curry and co-defendant Chester Gallagher livestreamed the blockade; the defendants collectively sat or stood in front of clinic entrances to prevent patients and employees from entering. Among those blocked was a patient whose fetus had been diagnosed with fatal abnormalities and for whom continuing the pregnancy posed serious risks to her health and fertility. Curry's co-defendants included Calvin Zastrow, Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Justin Phillips, Eva Edl, and Eva Zastrow.