states. Red states are mostly reporting none, even though they would not know about abortions through pills or other means. The Dobbs decision left the choice up to states, but the forced birthers are not satisfied that they have taken away the rights of women in their states, now they want to do the same in blue states. One of their current plans is to bet the FACE Act overturned. FACE stands for Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Their plan seems to be to create another fake case for the Supreme Court rule on and overturn the act, which would leave them free to blockade clinics, harass patients, and prevent doctors from even entering the clinics, or worse murder them as has happened in the past.
“For the last 30 years, the Face Act has shielded abortion clinics from the protesters who would love nothing more than to shut them down – and from a movement with a history of resorting to deadly tactics to do so. Now, with Roe v Wade gone, anti-abortion activists have their sights set on the last abortion clinics in the country, and the Face Act is in their crosshairs.
Handy’s case may tee up a constitutional challenge to the Face Act. Earlier this month, the prominent anti-abortion law firm the Thomas More Society said it would use Handy’s case to attempt to abolish the Face Act, which they saw as an irrelevant relic now that the supreme court has overturned Roe.
“There’s a very serious question about whether the federal government has any further interest in the abortion issue, whether there’s any federal interest at stake that has to be protected under federal law,” Martin Cannon, a Thomas More Society lawyer who is representing Handy, told the Washington Examiner.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/16/face-act-anti-abortion-threaten-clinics
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Planned Parenthood resumes offering abortions in Wisconsin after more than a year (Original post)
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