The Justice Department on Thursday submitted a suit versus 5 anti-abortion activists implicated of breaking the FACE Act. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
June 20 (UPI) — The Justice Department on Thursday submitted a civil suit versus 5 anti-abortion activists, 3 of whom haveactually been foundedguilty for obstructing accesses to reproductive health centers, on claims of breaching the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances.
Federal districtattorneys are lookingfor financial charges of $20,516 for a veryfirst offense of the FACE Act and $30,868 for subsequent infractions stemming from an anti-abortion blockade staged in 2022, at a Fort Myers, Fla., reproductive healthcare center.
Three of offenders — Calvin Zastrow, Eva Zastrow and Chester Gallagher — have formerly been foundedguilty for breaching the FACE Act and are dealingwith other FACE Act charges stemming from extra anti-abortion blockades held at centers acrossthecountry.
“Physically obstructing those lookingfor or supplying reproductive health services in order to enforce their views is illegal,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division stated in a declaration Thursday. “The Justice Department will continue imposing the FACE Act to secure versus such blockage.”
According to the claim, the 5 accuseds, consistingof Kenneth Scott and Katelyn Sims, are implicated of trespassing at the Fort Myers Health Center on Jan. 27, 2022, resulting in a momentary shutdown of its operations.
The file states that the accuseds were in the parking lot of the center before it opened and are implicated of insulting one of the center’s staffmembers as they showedup to start work.
A 2nd worker who gothere at the center was directed to wait in their lorry duetothefactthat of the protestors, who likewise presumably called the worker a “baby killer” who is “going to hell.”
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office reacted to reports of protestors avoiding clients from