The U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts says the FBI and other federal agencies stand ready to enforce federal laws allowing access to abortion and reproductive care in the commonwealth.
“We are going to enforce the (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994), which is essentially when people block the entrances of clinics and access there,” U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said in a television appearance Sunday with Jon Keller on WBZ.
“If we see uprisings happening, protests regarding these things, the FBI and other federal agencies may be involved,” she said.
Rollins said her office is receiving frequent updates from the Biden administration and is already looking into how recent Supreme Court decisions will affect federal employees in the state.
“We are getting guidance daily from the Attorney General of the United States Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice regarding, for example, federal employees, if they are looking to have health care, reproductive rights, utilized by themselves,” she said.
Her remarks come in response to the Supreme Court’s June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case legalizing abortion nationally, and return the question of the medical procedure’s legality to the states.
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