A pro-life activist has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for protesting outside an NYC abortion clinic.
Planned Parenthood provides a wide range of medical services other than abortion for people with and without health insurance, including general gynecological care, breast exams, STD testing, birth control, HPV vaccines, help quitting smoking. At trial, witnesses testified that they saw Williams using her body as a barrier to the facility and directing other anti-abortion protesters to stop people from going inside. Jurors heard she threatened staff with “war,” telling the chief administrati...
On Saturday, a group of 60 or so people of all ages stood across the street from Planned Parenthood on Bleecker and Mott St. in Soho to pray. We do this every first Saturday of the month. If you pass by, you’ll hear all 15 decades of the Rosary — mysteries of sorrow, joy, glory and light. Sometimes there are signs: “Pray to End Abortion” and “We Will Help You.” On July 3, there was exactly one sign: “I had an abortion. Life does not go back to normal. Save your baby and yourself!” Theresa Bonapartis, who has dedicated decades of ...
They’re pro-life and pals with the Proud Boys. The pair of anti-abortion protesters accused of harassing women at a New York City Planned Parenthood have used the Proud Boys for security and were at the U.S. Capitol on the day of the riot. New York Attorney General Letitia James slapped Edmee Chavannes and Bevelyn Beatty with civil charges last month, accusing the rabble rousers of regularly intimidating and blocking women from entering a clinic on Bleecker St. James seeks a court order restricting their activities at the clinic. ...
The free abortion pills will be offered at four public clinics in New York. The city already offers medication abortions at its 11 public hospitals.
Legislation rolled out by a group of Democratic City Council members Thursday would make abortion pills available for free at dozens of health clinics across the five boroughs — an effort...
New York City is still not back to operating all of its sexual health clinics, three years after the pandemic significantly curtailed the low-cost to free services that are considered vital to low-income and uninsured communities. Of the city’s eight brick-and-mortar sexual health clinics, three are yet to resume services since being shut down and repurposed for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations, according to the city health department. The health department has attributed the closures to staf...
Two anti-abortion activists known for creating chaos when they visit New York were indicted Friday for blocking access to a lower Manhattan Planned Parenthood clinic, federal prosecutors said. Bevelyn Beatty Williams and Edmee Chavannes surrendered in their home state of Tennessee to face charges that they tried to stop women from getting into the center, which provide abortions and other reproductive services. The pair is accused of threating patients at Manhattan healthcare facility on June 19...
NYC Health + Hospitals facilities offer abortion care (termination of pregnancy). Depending on various criteria seen below, this can be done by medication
Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday announced that four public health clinics would provide medication abortion by the end of the year.