{"id":623852,"date":"2023-03-30T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/florida-sues-janes-revenge-activists-over-attacks-on-pro-life-pregnancy-center\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:21:00","slug":"florida-sues-janes-revenge-activists-over-attacks-on-pro-life-pregnancy-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/florida-sues-janes-revenge-activists-over-attacks-on-pro-life-pregnancy-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida sues Jane’s Revenge activists over attacks on pro-life pregnancy center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody wants residents linked to the radical pro-choice group Jane\u2019s Revenge to pay for the damage they allegedly did to a pro-life pregnancy center in Hialeah.<\/p>\n

Both Ms. Moody and Heartbeat of Miami, a religious ministry that runs the Pregnancy Help Medical Clinics, filed lawsuits Wednesday against several Florida residents indicted by the Justice Department in last year\u2019s attacks on pro-life facilities.<\/p>\n

The complaints filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle Division of Florida (Tampa Division) seek $170,000 in damages and civil penalties from each of the defendants for violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and the state\u2019s anti-racketeering law.<\/p>\n

\u201cAntifa and Jane\u2019s Revenge are criminal organizations and must answer for their crimes in Florida,\u201d said Ms. Moody, a Republican. \u201cI am taking action to hold their members accountable for attempting to intimidate and threaten law-abiding citizens in our state.\u201d
Representing Heartbeat of Miami is the First Liberty Institute, a non-profit Christian legal advocacy group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who target life-affirming reproductive health facilities must face the legal penalties Congress established for their crimes,\u201d First Liberty senior counsel Jeremy Dys said. \u201cNo one should suffer violence for simply providing faith-based counseling and baby supplies to women and their babies. Violence is never a lawful response to disagreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Justice Department charged Caleb Hunter Freestone and Amber Marie Smith-Stewart for attacks on three Florida pro-life pregnancy centers in violation of the FACE Act. If convicted, they face up to 12 years in prison and $350,000 in fines.<\/p>\n

The department filed a superseding indictment Wednesday charging another two Florida residents, Annarella Rivera and Gabriella Victoria Oropresa, with FACE Act violations.<\/p>\n

The lawsuits accused Mr. Freestone and Ms. Smith-Stewart of vandalizing the Heartbeat of Miami pro-life pregnancy center and damaging its security camera with a laser in the July 3 attack. Messages spray-painted on the building included: \u201cJane\u2019s Revenge\u201d and \u201cIf abortions aren\u2019t safe [then] neither are you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Heartbeat of Miami lawsuit also accused Mr. Freestone and Ms. Rivera of crashing the organization\u2019s annual gala held Sept. 17 at the Trump National Doral Miami Resort & Hotel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey shouted obscenities, disparaged Heartbeat\u2019s staff, volunteers, and supporters, and leafletted the venue with propaganda hoping to dissuade women from using Heartbeat\u2019s services,\u201d said the complaint.<\/p>\n

Florida\u2019s lawsuit targets Mr. Freestone and Ms. Smith-Stewart, while Heartbeat of Miami is suing those two plus Ms. Rivera.<\/p>\n

The three defendants \u201care being sued in their capacities as representatives of Jane\u2019s Revenge,\u201d described in the filing as \u201can unincorporated criminal association \u2026 organized into local cells across the country to accomplish the association\u2019s illicit goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jane\u2019s Revenge demanded in June that pro-life organizations disband or face \u201cincreasingly extreme tactics\u201d following the leak of the Supreme Court\u2019s draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson, which overturned Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Defendants failed in their goal of coercing Heartbeat to cease its operation, their threats of force succeeded in making its personnel fear for their personal safety and the safety of their families,\u201d said the filing from Heartbeat of Miami. \u201cDefendants\u2019 actions of intimidation and violence forced Heartbeat to provide physical 24-hour security to protect the ability of their employees and patients to access its life-affirming reproductive healthcare facility.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least 83 pro-life offices and pregnancy centers have been attacked since the May 1 leak of the draft opinion, according to the CatholicVote tracker. Jane\u2019s Revenge has claimed responsibility for some of the incidents.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Valerie Richardson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody wants residents linked to the radical pro-choice group Jane\u2019s Revenge to pay for the damage they allegedly did to a pro-life pregnancy center in Hialeah. Both Ms. Moody and Heartbeat of Miami, a religious ministry that runs the Pregnancy Help Medical Clinics, filed lawsuits Wednesday against several Florida residents indicted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":623853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,1418,120919],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-623852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-financial","8":"category-florida","9":"category-janes"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}