National Clinic Access Project: Holding Extremists Accountable
Since the 1970s, reproductive health clinics and abortion providers throughout the United States have been under attack. There have been thousands of violent incidents including blockades, invasions, chemical attacks, arsons, bombings, death threats, shootings, sniper attacks … and cold-blooded murder.
For 36 years, the Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Clinic Access Project (NCAP) has been instrumental in protecting providers from violence, bringing extremists to justice and ensuring women can access the care they need. We work with clinics to increase their security, provide security assessments and trainings for staff and community volunteers, and in some cases, we provide emergency security grants. We work to secure stepped-up law enforcement response and pursue increased legal protections, working with pro-bono legal teams to prosecute threats and acts of violence.
Our work has become more critical following the 2024 elections: On January 23, President Trump pardoned 23 anti-abortion extremists who had been convicted and were in prison for
violently attacking reproductive health clinics in 4 states and Washington, DC. The next day Trump’s Department of Justice announced it would no longer enforce the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act except in extraordinary circumstances, and dismissed three pending criminal FACE cases related to attacks on clinics in Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The zealots think they can now get away with it—the threats, the violence. We’re making sure they don’t.