A Tennessee woman has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for using threats and violence to disrupt the operation of a New York City reproductive health center during the early days of the pandemic in 2020. The woman, 33, organized a protest at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Manhattan in June 2020, where she livestreamed the event and bragged about it afterward.
During the protest, a worker at the clinic was injured when the woman tried to push a door closed as the worker attempted to let a volunteer enter. The woman was convicted in February of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, with the judge citing seven other criminal convictions as a factor in the sentencing.
