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Criminal

Sep. 5, 2019

Politics loom over case against anti-abortion activists

The judge presiding over the state attorney general’s office unusual prosecution of two anti-abortion activists for videotaping Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers for multiple felonies fought back Wednesday against the efforts of lawyers on both sides to interject the incendiary politics of abortion into the preliminary hearing.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The judge presiding over State Attorney General Xavier Becerra's unusual prosecution on multiple felonies of two anti-abortion activists for videotaping Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers fought back Wednesday against efforts of lawyers on both sides to interject the incendiary politics of abortion into the preliminary hearing.

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