The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE or the Access Act, Pub. L. No. 103-259, 108 Stat. 694) (May 26, 1994, 18 U.S.C. § 248) is a United States law that was signed by President Bill Clinton in May 1994, which prohibits the following three things: (1) the use of physical force, threat of physical force, or physical obstruction to ...

Mar 23, 1993 · Authorizes civil actions by aggrieved persons, the Attorney General, and State attorneys general for violations.

“Pursuant to the affirmative power of Congress to enact this legislation under section 8 of article I of the Constitution, as well as under section 5 of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, it is the purpose of this Act [see Short Title note above] to protect and promote the public safety and health and activities affecting ...

May 22, 2023 · Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) In 1994, in response to an increase in violence toward providers and patients of reproductive health services, Congress enacted the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, …

Jan 24, 2025 · On Thursday, Mr. Trump pardoned 10 defendants who were charged with violating the FACE Act after prosecutors said they had formed a blockade at a Washington, D.C., reproductive healthcare center ...

May 15, 2024 · Seven defendants were sentenced yesterday and today following their convictions for federal conspiracy against rights and Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act offenses following three separate trials in connection with the use of force and physical obstruction to blockade a Washington, D.C., area reproductive health clinic on Oct ...

Jun 11, 2024 · The Section has served a pivotal role in enforcing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE), 18 U.S.C. § 248, which protects access to reproductive health care clinics and places of religious worship free of force or threats of force. The Department has filed more than 15 FACE actions in more than a dozen states and there are ...

The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (P.L. 103-259), passed on May 26, 1994 and codified at 18 U.S.C. § 248), popularly known by its acronym, FACE, makes it a federal crime intentionally to use force, threats of force, or physical obstruction in order to intimidate or interfere with a person because that person is providing or ...

Jan 1, 2009 · The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 (FACE) makes it a federal crime to physically obstruct the entrance to a clinic or to use force, the threat of force, or physical obstruction, such as a sit-in, to interfere with, injure, or intimidate clinic workers or women seeking abortions or other reproductive health services.

Today’s hearing on revisiting the implications of the FACE Act, that is the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, gives us an opportunity to consider the deeply troubling, decades-long history of violence, threats, and intimidation of people providing or …