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Prosecutors have dropped the charges against a pro-life activist for allegedly violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act due to filming a video for social media outside an abortion business.
Anastasia Rogers was arrested outside of a San Francisco Planned Parenthood facility last year.
Two months prior, a warrant had been issued for her arrest over a video she filmed outside of the facility, which prosecutors alleged violated the FACE Act.
Rogers' first trial ended in a mistrial after jurors could not come to a unanimous decision.
The San Francisco Attorney General initially sought a retrial, but all charges have now been dropped.
In December of 2025, Anastasia Rogers was arrested outside of a Planned Parenthood facility in San Francisco, California while peacefully advocating for preborn children and handing out pamphlets, which police admitted she was legally allowed to do, as she was not within the 25-foot buffer zone area.
According to Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, Rogers was "was handcuffed and taken into custody for simply distributing pregnancy resource pamphlets. She was not obstructing access, making threats, or violating the law. The arrest is based on a false allegation from an on duty Planned Parenthood security guard."
Yet officers said Rogers had an existing warrant out for her arrest, related to a video she had previously uploaded to social media, which Planned Parenthood said was an example of "intimidation," and therefore, violated California's FACE Act.
The video, which can be seen below, was said to contain "threatening language" due to Rogers' use of the phrase "unalive them" in reference to what happens to preborn babies inside the Planned Parenthood facility. A protective order was also placed against her, barring her from continuing sidewalk outreach.
Rogers was represented by the Life Legal Defense Foundation. “ What she was trying to communicate was what the escorts do is ‘unalive’ their children, and given complications that can result from abortions gone wrong, actually injure or sometimes even kill the women who are going in,” Rogers' counsel Michael Millen told KQED.
Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust released a statement saying that all charges have been dropped, and the protective order has been lifted.
In Rogers' first trial, a judge declared a mistrial after the jury could not come to a unanimous decision. As Live Action News previously reported:
Nine of the 12 jurors found Rogers not guilty of distributing a social media video with the intent to intimidate, while 10 of the 12 jurors found her not guilty of videotaping an abortion facility escort with the intent to intimidate.
However, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office announced it would seek a retrial.
“In my years as a criminal trial attorney, I have never seen or heard of the prosecution re-trying a case after ten jurors voted to acquit the defendant,” Allison Aranda, Life Legal Director of Criminal Litigation and one of Rogers' attorneys, said.
Now, prosecutors have apparently abandoned their strategy of retrying a case that already seems they would have likely lost for a second time.
Pro-lifers were heavily targeted under the federal FACE Act by the Biden administration — though in this instance, at least, a miscarriage of justice was avoided.
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·Charges dropped against pro-life activist over social media video
Prosecutors have dropped the charges against a pro-life activist for allegedly violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act due to filming a video for social media outside an abortion business.
Anastasia Rogers was arrested outside of a San Francisco Planned Parenthood facility last year.
Two months prior, a warrant had been issued for her arrest over a video she filmed outside of the facility, which prosecutors alleged violated the FACE Act.
Rogers' first trial ended in a mistrial after jurors could not come to a unanimous decision.
The San Francisco Attorney General initially sought a retrial, but all charges have now been dropped.
In December of 2025, Anastasia Rogers was arrested outside of a Planned Parenthood facility in San Francisco, California while peacefully advocating for preborn children and handing out pamphlets, which police admitted she was legally allowed to do, as she was not within the 25-foot buffer zone area.
According to Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, Rogers was "was handcuffed and taken into custody for simply distributing pregnancy resource pamphlets. She was not obstructing access, making threats, or violating the law. The arrest is based on a false allegation from an on duty Planned Parenthood security guard."
Yet officers said Rogers had an existing warrant out for her arrest, related to a video she had previously uploaded to social media, which Planned Parenthood said was an example of "intimidation," and therefore, violated California's FACE Act.
The video, which can be seen below, was said to contain "threatening language" due to Rogers' use of the phrase "unalive them" in reference to what happens to preborn babies inside the Planned Parenthood facility. A protective order was also placed against her, barring her from continuing sidewalk outreach.
Rogers was represented by the Life Legal Defense Foundation. “ What she was trying to communicate was what the escorts do is ‘unalive’ their children, and given complications that can result from abortions gone wrong, actually injure or sometimes even kill the women who are going in,” Rogers' counsel Michael Millen told KQED.
Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust released a statement saying that all charges have been dropped, and the protective order has been lifted.
In Rogers' first trial, a judge declared a mistrial after the jury could not come to a unanimous decision. As Live Action News previously reported:
Nine of the 12 jurors found Rogers not guilty of distributing a social media video with the intent to intimidate, while 10 of the 12 jurors found her not guilty of videotaping an abortion facility escort with the intent to intimidate.
However, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office announced it would seek a retrial.
“In my years as a criminal trial attorney, I have never seen or heard of the prosecution re-trying a case after ten jurors voted to acquit the defendant,” Allison Aranda, Life Legal Director of Criminal Litigation and one of Rogers' attorneys, said.
Now, prosecutors have apparently abandoned their strategy of retrying a case that already seems they would have likely lost for a second time.
Pro-lifers were heavily targeted under the federal FACE Act by the Biden administration — though in this instance, at least, a miscarriage of justice was avoided.
Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.
Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
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·Today, Survivors San Francisco organizer, Anastasia Rogers, was arrested while peacefully advocating for the pre-born on a public sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood. Ana was handcuffed and taken into custody for simply distributing pregnancy resource pamphlets. She was not Show more
