{"id":1676150,"date":"2022-10-06T12:52:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1676150"},"modified":"2022-10-06T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:52:47","slug":"11-pro-life-activists-indicted-by-biden-doj-for-peacefully-protesting-outside-abortion-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/11-pro-life-activists-indicted-by-biden-doj-for-peacefully-protesting-outside-abortion-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Pro-Life Activists Indicted by Biden DOJ for Peacefully Protesting Outside Abortion Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F11-pro-life-activists-indicted-by-biden-doj-for-peacefully-protesting-outside-abortion-clinic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1676150&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Justice Department<\/a> on Wednesday indicted 11 pro-life activists who investigators said blocked access to a Tennessee abortion clinic during a protest, saying they violated the FACE Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The activists, according to the indictment, organized an event blockading an abortion clinic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/tennessee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">near Nashville<\/a> earlier this year. The DOJ alleges the group physically prevented both employees of the clinic and at least one would-be patient from entering the building in early March. The federal FACE Act prohibits demonstrators from blocking access to abortion clinics.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ charged seven of the protesters with &#8220;conspiracy against rights secured by the FACE Act,&#8221; including Chester Gallagher, 73; Paul Vaughn, 55; Heather Idoni, 58; Calvin Zastrow, 57; Caroline Davis, 24; Coleman Boyd, 51; Dennis Green, 56.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment also charged four others with committing FACE Act violations: Eva Edl, 87; Eva Zastro, 24;\u00a0James Zastro, 25; and Paul Place, 24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/pennsylvania-pro-life-activist-arrested-fbi-charged-assaulting-clinic-escort\"><strong><u>PENNSYLVANIA PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST ARRESTED BY FBI, CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING CLINIC ESCORT<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(iStock)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/abortion5.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti and red paint found at Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center in Washington, D.C., left, and a pro-life pregnancy center&#039;s office building in Buffalo, New York, was vandalized and the scene of suspected arson.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Graffiti and red paint found at Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center in Washington, D.C., left, and a pro-life pregnancy center&#8217;s office building in Buffalo, New York, was vandalized and the scene of suspected arson.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center | CompassCare)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/new-poll-repulicans-favored-over-democrats-abortion-falls-seventh-importance-voters\"><strong><u>REPUBLICANS SLIGHTLY FAVORED OVER DEMOCRATS AS ABORTION FALLS TO SEVENTH IN IMPORTANCE TO VOTERS: POLL<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those charged with conspiracy face up to 11 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Those charged with FACE Act violations face up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ alleges the protesters planned a &#8220;blockade&#8221; at the Carafem Health Center Clinic and &#8220;blocked the clinic\u2019s entry doors and prevented a patient and an employee from entering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ also states that Boyd livestreamed the incident on social media and that footage showed members of the group &#8220;attempting to engage a patient and her companion as Boyd told his livestream audience that the patient was a \u2018mom coming to kill her baby.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The charges come weeks after the FBI raided the home of a Catholic pro-life activist in Pennsylvania, alleging that he had assaulted a man outside an abortion clinic earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Houck, 48, woke to find more than a dozen FBI agents outside his family&#8217;s home with their guns drawn on Sept. 23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While President Biden&#8217;s DOJ has aggressively prosecuted pro-life activists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/zero-arrests-16-janes-revenge-attacks-pro-life-organizations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it has made no<\/a> arrests in the at least 17 incidents of vandalism and arson against pro-life clinics committed by the radical abortion group &#8220;Jane&#8217;s Revenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Houck also faces 11 years of prison, including up to three years of supervised release and up to $350,000 in fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department on Wednesday indicted 11 pro-life activists who investigators said blocked access to a Tennessee abortion clinic during a protest, saying they violated the FACE Act.The activists, according<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1676152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1676152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}