The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a federal judge found four abortion facility protesters guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) in a press release yesterday.
The four protesters were accused of physically obstructing the Nashville-area abortion facility entrance for more than two hours and interfering with employees and a person seeking services by protesting in the hallway to the clinic on the second floor of the building during a 2021 protest.
Eva Zastrow from Michigan, James Zastrow from Missouri, Paul Place from Tennessee, and Eva Edl from South Carolina face up to a maximum of six months in prison, fines of up to $10,000, and five years of supervised release, according the the DOJ press release.
Edl lived in Yugoslavia during her childhood and was forced by the communist government into a camp where she endured starvation, she stated in a 2023 interview:
We were considered to be non-human, with just permission given for torturing and killing us by the government.… If it is right for the American government to legalize the killing of innocent human beings inside the womb, preborn babies, then why do we condemn the Nazis who also legalized the extermination of born people.… If it is a good thing to kill human beings just as long as the government says so, then we have no right to condemn anybody else. But we all know deep down that these things are evil.
