By Alex Henderson In Mount Juliet, Tennessee in March 2021 — more than 15 months before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended abortion as a national right — a group of anti-abortion activists allegedly joined forces to prevent access to a family planning clinic. And on Wednesday, October 5, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that 11 of them had been indicted on federal charges for violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act of 1994. DOJ alleges that some of the defendants “engaged in a conspiracy to prevent the clinic from providing, and pat…
