U.S. prosecutors have unveiled charges against 11 pro-life activists who they say violated federal law by blockading an abortion clinic in Tennessee in 2021.
Prosecutors say Chester Gallagher and others conspired to blockade a clinic in Mt. Juliet, utilizing Facebook to coordinate travel and logistics for co-defendants.
Caroline Davis, a co-defendant, wrote at one point to Coleman Boyd, who was also charged, that she would meet him for a “rescue” in Tennessee in March 2021.
The group did block a woman and an employee from entering the clinic, authorities said, citing a livestream broadcast by Coleman Boyd, another defendant. The broadcast was titled “Mt. Julet, TN Rescue March 5, 2021.” The group went into the hallway outside the clinic’s two entry doors before it was scheduled to open….