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At 9:05 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, a group of anti-abortion extremists from at least six states forced their way into the Washington Surgi-Clinic, a facility that provides abortion care in Washington, D.C. Some bound themselves together with chains, ropes and bike locks to block access to the clinic’s patient area. Others obstructed access to its employee entrance. Several used their bodies to try to prevent patients from entering the facility. Still more moved about assaulting patients—mostly verbally, but in one case physically—in the waiting room, a hallway and even in the small elevators leading to the fourth-floor clinic.
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So begins investigative reporter Amanda Robb’s alarming account of a violent attack on an abortion clinic in the nation’s capital.
Her article reveals, for the first time, how a clinic invasion was planned and executed—piecing together court testimony, FBI agents’ forensic analysis of the social media and cell phone records, footage obtained from the clinic’s security cameras and responding police officers’ body cameras, as well as the extremists’ own Facebook livestream.
You’ll want to get this issue to follow what happens when nine extremists are charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, as well as felony conspiracy charges. As Robb wrote, this additional charge “affirms what abortion rights advocates have documented and tried to bring to authorities’ attention for decades: Anti-abortion extremists—including its most violent actors—are connected and coordinated.”
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Here’s a glimpse at what else you’ll find within the pages of the upcoming Winter issue:
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From
rape
threats
and
misogynistic
slurs
to
sexual
harassment
and
doxing—
a
Ms.
report
on
how
online
abuse
is
used
to
intimidate,
discredit
and
silence
people,
and
what
all
of
us
can
do
about
it.
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The
first
step
to
stopping
gender
apartheid:
Women
activists
in
Afghanistan
and
Iran
are
calling
on
the
international
community
to
“name,
describe
and
proscribe”
this
crime
against
humanity.
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‘Women,
Life,
Freedom’:
an
excerpt
from
the
new
book
by
Iranian
human
rights
defender
Nasrin
Sotoudeh
gives
her
firsthand
account
of
how
women
suffer
under
gender
apartheid.
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Watch
and
weep—
Ms.
’
television
critic
picks
the
top
10
most
disappointing
series
cancellations
of
2023.
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