Legal Opinion
National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Scheidler
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 2, 2001No. 99-3076, 99-3336, 99-3891, 99-3892 and 01-2050PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
This case is in its fifteenth year of contentious litigation. The defendants are anti-abortion activists who employ a protest tactic they call “rescues,” in which they and other activists physically block access to abortion clinics so that the patients and staff cannot get in or out of the buildings. Plaintiffs use words less benign than “rescue” to describe the defendants’ activities. We will refer to them as “protest missions,” in the hopes that this will be understood as a neutral term. The defendants’ goal is frankly to prevent abortions from taking place.…
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