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Eleven Defendants Indicted for Obstructing a Reproductive Health Services Facility in Tennessee | OPA | Department of Justice

Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Coleman Boyd, Caroline Davis, Paul Vaughn, Dennis Green, Eva Edl, Eva Zastrow, James Zastrow and Paul Place were indicted for federal offenses in connection with an alleged reproductive health care clinic blockade in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, on March 5, 2021. Gallagher, Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Boyd, Davis, Vaughn and Dennis Green were charged with a civil rights conspiracy. All 11 defendants were charged with a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) offense.

The indictment returned by a federal grand jury alleges that Gallagher, Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Boyd, Davis, Vaughn and Green engaged in a conspiracy to prevent the clinic from providing, and patients from receiving, reproductive health services. According to the indictment, as part of the conspiracy, Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Boyd, Davis and Green traveled to Tennessee from other states to participate in a clinic blockade that was organized by Gallagher, Idoni and others.

The indictment alleges that, beginning in February 2021, Gallagher utilized social media to promote a series of anti-abortion events scheduled for March 4-7, 2021, in the Nashville area. Other co-conspirators then utilized Facebook to coordinate travel and logistics and to identify other participants for the blockade. On March 4, 2021, Boyd and Gallagher advertised the blockade of the Carafem Health Center Clinic, in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, which was planned for the following day. In his social media post, Gallagher referred to the blockade as a “rescue.” Boyd also began a Facebook livestream broadcast of the clinic blockade at 7:45 a.m. on March 5, 2021. This livestream broadcast was titled, in part, “Mount Juliet, Tennessee, Rescue March 5, 2021,” and livestreamed the blockade event as his coconspirators and others blocked the clinic’s entry doors and prevented a patient and an employee from entering. The livestream also broadcast members of the group attempting to engage a patient and her companion as Boyd told his livestream audience that the patient was a “mom coming to kill her baby.”

The indictment further alleges that on March 5, 2021, the 11 individuals, aided and abetted by one another, used force and physical obstruction to injure, intimidate and interfere with employees of the clinic and a patient who was seeking reproductive health services.

The indictment also alleges that all 11 defendants violated the FACE Act by using physical obstruction to intimidate and interfere with the clinic’s employees and a patient, because the clinic was providing, and the patient sought reproductive health services. All defendants will have appearances scheduled in U.S. District Court in Nashville at a later date.

Source: Eleven Defendants Indicted for Obstructing a Reproductive Health Services Facility in Tennessee | OPA | Department of Justice

A Question To Ponder

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I want to throw something out for discussion, and I’d really like your honest opinions here.  The question is when do we draw a line, or do we draw a line, on comments that cross a line?  I do not want to censor any comments, but in the past year or so, I have done so, particularly if the comment included extreme vulgarity or was disrespectful to my readers or myself.  When this blog morphed from one of mostly book reviews to a socio-political blog in 2015, I accepted that there would be some with opinions different than mine.  I still accept that, and I welcome it, for only by listening to one another can we possibly hope to understand each other.  These are troubled times all over the globe and we need to learn to listen, to meet halfway, but I think in order for such communication to have…

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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” Meu coração não sabe.

Estúpido, ridículo e frágil é meu coração.

Só agora descubro

como é triste ignorar certas coisas.

Na solidão de indivíduo

desaprendi a linguagem

com que homens se comunicam.

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