Pro-Life Activists Face Decade in Federal Prison in State Where Abortion Now Virtually Outlawed

Published on January 22, 2024

Jury selection is expected to start this week in Nashville, Tennessee, for six pro-life advocates facing up to 11 years in federal prison. They are accused of preaching from the Bible and singing church hymns while some of them blocked the door of a now-shuttered abortion facility. The accused were attempting to convince women to change their minds, moments before walking into appointments on March 5, 2021, at Carafem Health Center in Mount Juliet, Tennessee to abort their babies. In a strange twist, they are facing life-altering federal charges for trying to stop something that is now almost completely illegal there. Initially, 11 people were indicted. One defendant had her charges dropped and will testify against the others; six face up to 11 years in prison and four could see a year in prison....