National Organization for Women v. Operation Rescue

This is an appeal of a permanent injunction entered against six individuals and Operation Rescue, an unincorporated association whose members oppose abortion and its legalization. The district court enjoined them, inter alia, from “trespassing on, blockading, impeding or obstructing access to or egress from” the premises of plaintiffs, facilities that provide abortions or abortion counseling. The court held that defendants’ blockading of abortion facilities infringed the right to travel of women seeking to obtain abortions at clinics in the Washington metropolitan area, in violation of 42…