The other named defendant in the suit is Jennifer Page, 39, who the complaint says is also known as “Jennifer L. Clark” and “Queen City Feminist.”
The suit says that on several occasions, Page organized protests against the clinic where assaults on pro-life activists, First Amendment violations, and theft took place.
On one occasion, Page allegedly organized a counterprotest to the clinic’s “Walk for Life,” which is a pro-life fundraising and advocacy event where participants walk around local landmarks with pro-life signs.
The suit says that Page blocked a public highway “in order to prevent pro-life citizens from exercising their First Amendment rights, and to threaten and intimidate patients, employees, prospective patients, and supporters of CompassCare from working at, seeking services from, or supporting CompassCare.”
Certain “co-conspirators” of Page’s assaulted walkers and law enforcement, the suit says.
“Page’s co-conspirators hit a police officer with a bullhorn, punched [a] CompassCare supporter, placed nails and glass in a public walkway (injuring at least one person), and graffitied lewd, vulgar, threatening messages on the sidewalk,” the suit says.
The complaint also says that Page organized protests against the Amherst facility on two other occasions after the walk, which included “trespassing on the property and writing graffiti in the driveway of the facility, thereby blocking the entrance to the facility’s parking lot and intending to deter, and in fact deterring, staff, volunteers, and patients from entering the facility.”
In another incident, the suit alleges that Page trespassed onto the Amherst facility and stole a sign deterring trespassing.
The suit says that Page was arrested and charged by the Amherst police with theft.
After Page was arrested, she provided the police with information regarding two participants who were involved in the 2022 arson attack at the clinic, the suit says.
Those two “Doe” defendants are responsible for writing “Jane was here” on the clinic during the arson, the suit says.
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“Jane’s Revenge,” or alterations of it, such as “Jane was here,” became a calling card of sorts for dozens of pro-abortion vandals after the May 2022 leak from the Supreme Court indicated that the justices were poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Roe was overturned that June, but the term continued to pop up in places where pro-life facilities had been vandalized such as the attack on a pro-life pregnancy center in Bowling Green, Ohio, in April.
CompassCare’s requests
As part of the suit, CompassCare is asking that the defendants be prohibited from going within 100 feet of any pro-life pregnancy center in the state of New York.
Additionally, it is asking for a judgment against the defendants proportionate to the compensatory and punitive damages that are “yet to be determined.”
CompassCare is also asking to be awarded compensation for legal fees. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo, sitting in Buffalo, has been assigned the case.
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