Immediately, the anti-abortion mob surrounded her, hit her with their signs and she fainted. When she awoke, she was rushed to a hospital because she was bleeding where her sutures had ruptured. The mob prevented her from entering the clinic at all. After hearing from multiple witnesses with similar stories, a unanimous jury agreed that the defendants created and maintained a criminal enterprise. Now the anti-abortion mob's apologists in Congress want to make it legal to organize that kind of extortion.
Women still run a gauntlet at abortion clinics.
Doctors and staff at the clinics still face death threats, arson, bombing, stalking and murder. While anti-abortion forces have failed to eliminate abortion through force of law, the defendants in our case turned to direct, physical force. They are relentless in their attempts to deny women our reproductive freedom. And when federal, state or local authorities are unable or unwilling to prosecute the offenders, we must take matters into our own hands and go into court ourselves. Today's hearing was another attempt to deny us that path to justice.