[1] She attended Central Virginia Community College with the intent of working in a museum as an art historian.

[2] Handy was moved by the experience of seeing women walking into an abortion clinic, and started to attend church several days a week.

[2] Six weeks later she skipped her final exams, dropped out of school, sold all her belongings, and moved to California to become a full-time activist with Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust.

[2] Handy stands outside a Washington, D.C., Planned Parenthood facility three or four times a week, telling people that "there is free help available for you and your family.

[7] When they refused to leave, forcing police to carry them, they were charged with felony resisting arrest, misdemeanor trespass and disturbing the peace.

[8] On May 14, 2024, Handy was sentenced to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

[6][10][11] Her defense lawyer argued that she was only a genuine activist who was simply involved in an act of peaceful, non-violent protest.

[4] A spokesperson for Handy's Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising told The Pillar that five women chose not to have abortions as a result of the pink rose rescue.

[13][14] On March 25, 2022, Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac were sidewalk counseling outside of Washington Surgi-Clinic in D.C. when they claim to have seen a medical waste disposal company's truck parked outside.

[1][2][6] They say they approached the driver and asked if they could give the aborted children inside the boxes a “proper funeral.”[2] Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services has refuted this claim, stating it does not transport fetal remains by company policy and has also denied that any package was ever handed over.

[17] Handy and Bukovinac suspected one fetus may have been born alive and left to die outside the womb, and another was a partial-birth abortion.

[2] Later that day, the Washington DC police removed the remains of 5 fetuses from Handy's apartment with Bukovinac present.

[8][2][20] The D.C. Medical Examiner’s Office said the five fetuses recovered from Handy’s home all appear to have been aborted in accordance with D.C. law, and that while there were no plans to conduct an autopsy, an inquiry was ongoing as to the origin of the remains and how they were obtained.