The Face Act penalizes people for blockading and threatening abortion clinics. Anti-abortion activists want it repealed
Carter Sherman
Sat 16 Sep 2023
The inside of the abortion clinic was chaotic. Anti-abortion protesters lined the walls. A few had sat down on the clinic’s lime green chairs and draped themselves in chains. “Please inspire these parents to keep their babies!” one man shouted, before he started singing about the Virgin Mary. As some of the protesters sang and prayed loudly, the police officers crowded inside the clinic tried to urge them to move. They didn’t want to budge.
It was 22 October 2020, and one anti-abortion advocate was livestreaming a group of activists who were at the Washington DC-area clinic to, in their view, “rescue” people from having abortions. One redheaded young woman turned to the camera.
Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/16/face-act-anti-abortion-threaten-clinics