A Houston-area midwife was arrested after allegedly performing illegal abortions and operating clinics without a license, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Monday.
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The pardons came ahead of Friday's annual anti-#abortion protest March for Life in Washington.
Anti-abortion advocates had been pushing for #Trump to #pardon the anti-abortion protesters charged with violating the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which is intended to protect #AbortionClinics from #obstruction & #threats & was adopted amid a rise in #violence against #AbortionProviders.
#Trump on Thurs pardoned 8 people convicted in federal court in #Michigan of illegally blockading #AbortionClinics in Sterling Heights & Saginaw & of #conspiracy to violate the rights of clinic #patients & #employees.
The 8 were among 24 that Trump pardoned after they'd been accused of blockading #abortion clinic entrances.
The US #SupremeCourt on Monday declined to consider a case that would have restricted the use of “bubble” zones around #abortionclinics, areas where protesters are not permitted. The court’s decision means that the #bufferzones will remain in place.
The case under consideration involved Debra Vitagliano who claimed that her #FirstAmendment right to #freespeech was violated by a local law...
www.jurist.orgUS Supreme Court declines case surrounding reproductive health clinic ‘buffer zones’The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider a case that would have restricted the use of 'bubble' zones around abortion clinics, areas where protesters are not permitted. The court’s decision...