American Justice: Abortion Style

[JoePepsiCo]

In late January, six pro-life activists were convicted on charges of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, for blocking the entrance to an abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee in 2021. The FACE Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, punishes “violent, threatening damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain, or provide” abortions.

For their peaceful demonstration — that included hymns and prayer — the defendants each face a maximum sentence of more than a decade in prison and three years of supervised released, plus up to $260,000 in fines.

On Wednesday, Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, a pro-abortion terrorist who firebombed the pro-life Wisconsin Family Action offices on Mother’s Day, 2022, was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison (minus time served) plus three years supervised release on just one count of malicious damage by fire or explosives of property used in interstate commerce.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/1...er-sentence-than-peaceful-pro-life-activists/

 

[ll74]

Sounds like you want to repeal the law.

Good luck!

 

[DeluxAuto]

There's no such thing as a "pro-abortionist" and people who use that term deserve to be mocked and dismissed.

 

[desecration]

The FACE Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, punishes “violent, threatening damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain, or provide” abortions.

Too vague. Just ban people from blocking any businesses with their protests. That'll keep the Just Stop Oil people from blocking the roads as well.

 

[rgraham666]

History of anti-choice violence.

 

[ll74]

Too vague. Just ban people from blocking any businesses with their protests. That'll keep the Just Stop Oil people from blocking the roads as well.

It's not vague at all. The law is specific to those blocking abortion access.

 

[v_indigo]

Christians LOVE feeling persecuted. This will be lovely for them!

 

[YDB95]

For their peaceful demonstration — that included hymns and prayer — the defendants each face a maximum sentence of more than a decade in prison and three years of supervised released, plus up to $260,000 in fines.

It doesn't matter what else they were doing, if they were over the FACE line or blocking patients from crossing it. I've done clinic defense in DC, and the antis there knew the rule and, rather improbably, most of them respected it.

Having said that, I sincerely doubt they were only singing hymns and praying. In my experience, there are antis who do only that, and there are the ones who get in patients' faces and scream at them about murder and genocide. Only the latter ever came anywhere near the FACE line.

 

[John_von_Neumann]

It's a shame OP wasn't aborted.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

It's a shame OP wasn't aborted.

How are you so sure he wasn't?

 

[Lazaran]

In late January, six pro-life activists were convicted on charges of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, for blocking the entrance to an abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee in 2021. The FACE Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, punishes “violent, threatening damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain, or provide” abortions.

For their peaceful demonstration — that included hymns and prayer — the defendants each face a maximum sentence of more than a decade in prison and three years of supervised released, plus up to $260,000 in fines.

On Wednesday, Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, a pro-abortion terrorist who firebombed the pro-life Wisconsin Family Action offices on Mother’s Day, 2022, was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison (minus time served) plus three years supervised release on just one count of malicious damage by fire or explosives of property used in interstate commerce.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/1...er-sentence-than-peaceful-pro-life-activists/

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(Quoted for posterity and stupidity)

So some anti-choice, anti-freedom terrorists are FACING "something?", while a pro-choice, pro-freedom terrorist was SENTENCED to 7.5 YEARS in prison.

And???



It’s too bad the individuals seeking services at the clinic didn’t "stand their ground" when being threatened by the anti-choice, anti-freedom terrorists…



And, when you really think about it, is attacking an empty building worse than attacking actual people???



I’m not saying fire bombing an empty building is "good", or that it’s "better" than attacking actual people; but is it really worse???

 

[RobDownSouth]

Sounds like AJ has an issue with sentence-based equality.
He stood idly by when folks got disproportionate sentences for possession of crack cocaine vs. cocaine powder. He didn't see an issue there for over two decades as I recall. The fact that the "n-words" were primary crack users and white folks preferred cocaine had nothing to do with this disparity nossiree! He didn't have a dog in THAT fight

But AJ loves him some abortion clinic bombers big time, so now all of a sudden he's all about equality in sentencing.

Go figure.

Life isn't fair, AJ.