May 31, 2024
An anti-abortion activist was sentenced to two years incarceration in D.C. federal court Friday, the final defendant to be sentenced among nine others charged in a 2020 blockade at a reproductive health clinic.
May 22, 2024
An anti-abortion activist convicted of invading and blockading a Washington, D.C., reproductive health clinic was sentenced to two years of incarceration Wednesday, becoming the ninth defendant to get prison time in the D.C. federal court case.
April 15, 2024
Prosecutors are seeking prison sentences for six anti-abortion activists convicted of storming a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic, including a six-year term for the alleged "criminal mastermind" behind this and other blockades.
November 16, 2023
A Massachusetts woman was convicted Thursday following a bench trial for invading a Washington, D.C., reproductive health clinic to "save lives" and body-slamming the clinic manager into a waiting room chair, becoming the ninth defendant convicted in the federal case.
July 24, 2023
A Washington, D.C., federal judge has refused to dismiss charges against four anti-abortion activists accused of storming an abortion clinic in the District and injuring an employee, saying the defendants' arguments against a federal law protecting abortion clinic access has no merit and that there is no legal right to "vigilantism."
February 09, 2023
A law professor who has long argued that the amendment that abolished slavery also protects abortion rights found his views spotlighted this week when a D.C. federal judge pointed to his decades-old law review article as evidence that the U.S. Supreme Court overstepped in its landmark decision overturning Roe v. Wade.