Civil Rights Atty.: People Who Harass Women Outside Abortion Clinics Are Ruthless, FACE Act Should Be Used Against Them

RUSH EXCERPT:

SMITH: “Well, since they stopped a hearing that was supposed to take place today — I don’t know how you stop these radical — I think, well, thank god we have Garland in the department of justice. We have to criminally prosecute under the face act, an act that protects women’s rights to actually go to an abortion provider and get medical care for reproductive decisions that are supposed to be private. So the face act should be very, very vigorously enforced. And entities that go into court and try to stop priors and Uber drivers and friends and family who support a women’s right to make her own medical decisions — they should be criminally charged under face act, not just civilly. We need to fight this as hard as we can because these people are ruthless and they will do anything. If you have been near an abortion clinic recently, and I have, it is so abusive to women who is happening there. They had bright lights out the minute this became law on September 1st. Looking into women’s cars. How do you know how pregnant a woman is, by the way? Most people don’t know they are pregnant by six weeks? How do you know that? Does the law give them the right to violate hippa and get women’s medical records? As was pointed out in that wonderful piece, these are people who say you can’t force me to wear a mask to stop a pandemic. So it’s very difficult how we are going to fix this.”