A protester arrested for disrupting West Virginia lawmakers as they moved to ban abortion last September will see all charges dropped against her — if she stays out of trouble for the next six months.
for disrupting lawmakers as they moved to ban abortion last year will see all charges dropped against her, if she stays out of trouble for the next six months.
Lopez agreed to dismiss a third misdemeanor for disorderly conduct if Jacobs doesn't get convicted for breaking any laws in the next six months. The arrest will be on her record. She'll also have to pay around $175 in court fees.“I mean, the reason that we’re here sucks — there's not really any way to spin that," she said outside court afterward.
In February, West Virginia's only abortion clinic — which had to shutter abortion services following the law's passage — filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the ban. It has asked the court to issue an injunction blocking it while providers make their case in court. Jacobs said she became frustrated, believing Mazzocchi was overlooking the fact that the pills cost between $40 and $50, an amount she called “cost prohibitive for a lot of people.”
Taken to the state police barracks for processing, she was subsequently arraigned by a county magistrate on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond.arrested and charged on the spot
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