{"id":275464,"date":"2022-09-05T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=275464"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:54:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:54:25","slug":"tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee appeals court vacates ruling that denied protection to pro-life advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A pro-life advocate gained a victory this week in Tennessee when a Court of Appeals vacated a ruling that had denied her protection under the law.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Erika Schanzenbach, represented by the Thomas More Society,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-escort-licks-sidewalk-counselor-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed<\/a> a court order for protection against four abortion activists and escorts who continually stalked and harassed her as she prayed and counseled outside\u00a0the Bristol Regional Women\u2019s Center abortion facility. Multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZdsJjgQeliI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video evidence<\/a> shows\u00a0Denise Skeen, Alethea Skeen, Rowan Skeen, and Cheryl Hanzlik all harassing\u00a0Schanzenbach, doing things like\u00a0licking her arms, blowing in her ear, blaring police siren bullhorns in her face, stealing her leaflets, blocking her way with umbrellas, and shouting profanities and taunts in her face.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ITnPmTPzgQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite this evidence, a Tennessee court ruled in August 2020 that it would <em>not<\/em> order protection against the abortion escorts, noting that\u00a0Schanzenbach did not stop her pro-life advocacy, and therefore must not have been bothered by the harassment. The Thomas More Society appealed that decision, and an August 26 ruling from the Tennessee Court of Appeals vacated the ruling and found that the case should further proceed in court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-choice-violence-lie-alarming-frequencey\/\">\u2018Pro-choice violence\u2019 isn\u2019t an \u2018absurd lie.\u2019 It happens with alarming frequency.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a good interim victory for Ms. Schanzenbach, a true hero on the front lines of peacefully and prayerfully ending abortion in this country,\u201d Thomas More Society Counsel Michael McHale said in an email. \u201cIt is rare for an appellate court to disturb a lower court\u2019s denial of a protection order, but here the Court of Appeals plainly saw that the trial court needed to better analyze the facts and law before it could deny protection to Ms. Schanzenbach. Her case involves the most egregious harassment we\u2019ve seen of a pro-lifer anywhere in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Thomas More Society notes that the\u00a0Bristol Regional Women\u2019s Center abortion facility has since closed down, as Tennessee law now protects most preborn children in the womb from abortion, but that it has relocated to a new facility just a mile away in Bristol, Virginia. Schanzenbach is continuing her pro-life advocacy at the new facility, and the Thomas More Society said it will continue to ensure that she is protected from harassment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Schanzenbach has been terrorized while exercising her freedom to peacefully express her opinion,\u201d McHale said. \u201cShe has been stalked, threatened, and frightened, while attempting to share life-affirming alternatives with abortion-minded women \u2013 something that she is fully within her constitutional rights to do,\u201d he added. \u201cThe appellate court has remanded Ms. Schanzenbach\u2019s lawsuit back to the Chancery Court to get it right. We expect it to do so, by protecting her to the full extent of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pro-life advocate gained a victory this week in Tennessee when a Court of Appeals vacated a ruling that had denied her protection under the law. In 2020, Erika Schanzenbach, represented by the Thomas More Society,\u00a0filed a court order for protection against four abortion activists and escorts who continually stalked and harassed her as she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":275483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,3473],"tags":[4050,18896,690,2677],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tennessee appeals court vacates ruling that denied protection to pro-life advocate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A pro-life advocate gained a victory this week in Tennessee when a Court of Appeals vacated a ruling that had denied her protection under the law.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tennessee appeals court vacates ruling that denied protection to pro-life advocate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A pro-life advocate gained a victory this week in Tennessee when a Court of Appeals vacated a ruling that had denied her protection under the law.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-05T18:41:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-03T01:54:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/screenshot-youtube-bristol-womens-harassment.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bridget Sielicki\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bridget Sielicki\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bridget Sielicki\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/354818e37fca891455094342cfaacf2f\"},\"headline\":\"Tennessee appeals court vacates ruling that denied protection to pro-life advocate\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-05T18:41:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-03T01:54:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/\"},\"wordCount\":472,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Bristol Regional Women's Center\",\"Erika Schanzenbach\",\"Tennessee\",\"Thomas More Society\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Activism\",\"Newsbreak\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/\",\"name\":\"Tennessee appeals court vacates ruling that denied protection to pro-life advocate\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-05T18:41:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-03T01:54:25+00:00\",\"description\":\"A pro-life advocate gained a victory this week in Tennessee when a Court of Appeals vacated a ruling that had denied her protection under the law.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tennessee appeals court vacates ruling that denied protection to pro-life advocate\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, &amp; Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/354818e37fca891455094342cfaacf2f\",\"name\":\"Bridget Sielicki\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9cf04f4b8f1370c0d4ec72e4c6913a37?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9cf04f4b8f1370c0d4ec72e4c6913a37?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Bridget Sielicki\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/bridget-sielicki\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Tennessee appeals court vacates ruling that denied protection to pro-life advocate","description":"A pro-life advocate gained a victory this week in Tennessee when a Court of Appeals vacated a ruling that had denied her protection under the law.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Tennessee appeals court vacates ruling that denied protection to pro-life advocate","og_description":"A pro-life advocate gained a victory this week in Tennessee when a Court of Appeals vacated a ruling that had denied her protection under the law.","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2022-09-05T18:41:58+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-09-03T01:54:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":650,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/screenshot-youtube-bristol-womens-harassment.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Bridget Sielicki","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Bridget Sielicki","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/"},"author":{"name":"Bridget Sielicki","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/354818e37fca891455094342cfaacf2f"},"headline":"Tennessee appeals court vacates ruling that denied protection to pro-life advocate","datePublished":"2022-09-05T18:41:58+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-03T01:54:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/"},"wordCount":472,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"keywords":["Bristol Regional Women's Center","Erika Schanzenbach","Tennessee","Thomas More Society"],"articleSection":["Activism","Newsbreak"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/","name":"Tennessee appeals court vacates ruling that denied protection to pro-life advocate","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-09-05T18:41:58+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-03T01:54:25+00:00","description":"A pro-life advocate gained a victory this week in Tennessee when a Court of Appeals vacated a ruling that had denied her protection under the law.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-appeals-court-vacates-ruling-pro-life\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tennessee appeals court vacates ruling that denied protection to pro-life advocate"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, &amp; Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/354818e37fca891455094342cfaacf2f","name":"Bridget Sielicki","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9cf04f4b8f1370c0d4ec72e4c6913a37?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9cf04f4b8f1370c0d4ec72e4c6913a37?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Bridget Sielicki"},"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/bridget-sielicki\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275484,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275464\/revisions\/275484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}