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more critical than ever in shielding abortion providers from violence now that the constitutional right to abortion has been revoked.

  • @[email protected]
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    155 months ago

    President Bill Clinton signed the FACE Act into law in 1994 following a string of high-profile attacks against abortion clinics, which included Dr. David Gunn being shot and killed outside an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida in 1993 — marking the first abortion provider killed in the U.S.

    I remember this (or maybe a later murderer) lunatic’s mugshot on the cover of a magazine. Looked happy. Scared me. Still does.

    Fuck the right. They are terrorists, monsters, evil in the name of “christ”.

    • @ghostdoggtv
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      45 months ago

      At some point you’ve got to assume Christ is cool with it

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        55 months ago

        Evangelical Christians not getting smote by pillars of fire are a good argument against a good and loving God, or even a greedy and jealous God.

        • FenrirIII
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          45 months ago

          Trump is the golden calf

        • @ghostdoggtv
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          25 months ago

          Then he’s not really all-powerful. That’s for a different thread though.

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            15 months ago

            I never thought that dictatorial assholes were powerful, contrary to what right wingnuts seem the think.

          • @[email protected]
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            15 months ago

            Counterpoint: I’m basically the god on my computer, but even I screw up so badly sometimes that it’s just easier to hit reset than track down exactly where shit went sideways and unfuck it.