NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee jury has convicted six anti-abortion protesters of violating federal laws after they blocked the entrance of a reproductive clinic outside Nashville nearly three years ago.
The jury’s decision, handed down late Tuesday after a weeklong trial, marks the latest development in a case that has been closely watched by conservative groups, who have accused the federal government of unfairly targeting abortion opponents by using 1994 federal law designed to protect abortion clinics from obstruction and threats. Reproductive rights supporters counter the law, known as Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or the FACE Act, is more critical than ever in shielding abortion providers from violence now that the constitutional right to abortion has been revoked.
If they would only put those assholes behind bars. Because fines will be happily paid for by their supporters, thus having no detrimental or deterring effect on the perpetrators.
We will find out in a few months.
I’ll take one year and a felony record. That should be enough. (Overly harsh sentences people get for weed doesn’t matter here.)
I saw the 80+k donated to the defense fund of that asshole who vandalized the Satanic Temple’s monument and joked with a friend that we should go full-time on a biz grifting rightwingers. It’d be a great business. It’s happening all around us.
They’re a felon now yes ? Does that mean no more right to voting ?I mean I disagree with that principal… but still. Not USA citizen btw.