Three anti-abortion activists have been sentenced to three years of probation in federal court for their 2021 blockade of a Tennessee clinic. James Zastrow, Eva Zastrow and Paul Place were ordered on Tuesday to serve the first 90 days of their sentences on home detention.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Three anti-abortion activists were each sentenced to three years of probation in federal court on Tuesday for their 2021 blockade of a Tennessee clinic.
James Zastrow, Eva Zastrow and Paul Place were ordered to serve the first 90 days of their sentences on home detention. They werefor blocking the main clinic door at the Carafem reproductive health clinic in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, a town 17 miles east of Nashville. Police asked them to leave or move multiple times, but they refused and were eventually arrested.. The sentences were below those asked by prosecutors, and U.S.
The 2021 blockade came nearly a year before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The organizers used social media to promote and livestream actions they hoped would prevent the clinic from performing abortions, according to testimony. They also intended the video as a training tool for other activists, Trauger found.
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