Pro-lifer arrested outside California Planned Parenthood plans to continue outreach

Questions remain regarding the December 18 arrest of a pro-life activist who appeared to be peacefully distributing pro-life informational pamphlets on a public sidewalk outside a California Planned Parenthood.

Key Takeaways:

• Anastasia Rogers, who is involved with the pro-life organization Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, was arrested outside a Planned Parenthood in San Francisco, California, on December 18.

• A video appears to show police officers telling Rogers she was legally allowed to distribute her pamphlets on the sidewalk as she was doing; however, the officers ended up taking Rogers into custody for what they stated was a "warrant." According to Survivors, the warrant was for an instance of prior activism.

• A Survivors social media post states that Rogers was arrested on December 18 "for simply distributing pregnancy resource pamphlets." A separate Survivors post says that "[t]wo months prior [to her arrest], Rogers had been notified via phone call of a warrant for her arrest related to" a video she previously filmed outside the facility, which "allegedly violated the California FACE [A]ct." Survivors also states that the alleged warrant has not yet been located.

• Rogers spent seven hours in jail and was released. Life Legal Defense Foundation is reportedly providing legal representation for Rogers.

The Details:

On December 18, the pro-life organization Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust posted on X and Facebook that "Survivors San Francisco organizer Anastasia Rogers was arrested while peacefully advocating for the pre-born on a public sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood" in San Francisco, California.

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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

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According to that post, she "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."

However, the post added, "Officers then cited a prior FACE act-related warrant and arrested her."

What's the Real Reason for Arrest?

Based on the video clips of Rogers' apparent conversation with officers on December 18, it was not the distribution of pamphlets that day that was the reason for Rogers' arrest, but an outstanding warrant.

In the video, an officer tells Rogers:

"I was getting calls and and people were saying that they saw some stuff, and that you're in front of their door hanging out, being aggressive, but as I come, I see you [are] not even on Planned Parenthood's property....

I asked if you were impeding the flow of anybody going in or out; he [possibly the security guard] said no....

You're free to be out here handing out flyers."

In the video, Rogers tells the officers she was on the sidewalk, she is aware of the 25-foot buffer zone, and that she was handing out leaflets and "did a little bit of chalking" on the public sidewalk.

After this conversation, the other responding officer speaks to Rogers, saying, "Alright, so, Anastasia, we did check; you do have a warrant... We're gonna be taking you in today, okay?" He then asks her to turn around and handcuffs her as she continues to make statements to the person filming the arrest, stating:

"I'm being arrested for sidewalk counseling... because I'm sidewalk counseling in front of Planned Parenthood, and trying to help women and children, and trying to provide resources to moms who need it, to help save their children, to help save their life from places like Planned Parenthood and places that have harmed and killed women.

Because of that, I'm apparently the person who's doing stuff wrong and needs to be arrested.

So, Planned Parenthood is actively doing what they can to protect their assets, to protect their company, and that means that we're just being a threat to their company, that we're doing what we can to help people, which isn't their goal. Their goal is to harm people."

As the video shows, during this time, the arresting officer appears to wait while Rogers speaks to the camera. Soon, the other responding officer helps to escort Rogers to the police vehicle, where he places her in the back seat but leaves the door open as Rogers continues to speak to the camera.

Does a Warrant Exist?

On December 22, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust shared a followup post on X, stating that "[t]wo months prior [to her arrest], Rogers had been notified via phone call of a warrant for her arrest related to a trending Instagram reel she made on the public sidewalk in front of the San Francisco Planned Parenthood. The video allegedly violated the California FACE act; Planned Parenthood is claiming 'intimidation.'”

The organization shared the video that allegedly led to the warrant, which can be viewed below.

Survivors also stated that attorneys have been unable to gather any information on the warrant and "after exhausting every option, the lack of response indicated the 'warrant' was non-existent or designed to keep [Rogers] from sidewalk outreach." Rogers was previously arrested in 2023 following a pro-life gathering at an outdoor plaza on the campus of Zuckerberg San Francisco General, a hospital which commits abortions and trains abortionists in affiliation with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Rogers spent seven hours in jail after her December 18 arrest before being released, and a court date was set for December 22.

"Threatening language"?

On that court date, Life Legal Defense Foundation posted on social media regarding their legal representation of Rogers, but did not mention anything regarding a prior warrant; however, the post did add yet another layer of information:

Anastasia Rogers... was peacefully engaged in sidewalk outreach, offering pregnancy resource information to women seeking abortion—activity squarely protected by the First Amendment.

Anastasia was handcuffed and taken to the county jail following an allegation by on-duty security that she had used “threatening language” in a social media post related to her outreach.

Life Legal’s review found no threats and concluded that Anastasia was not obstructing access, threatening anyone, or violating any law. Anastasia was released from custody that night at approximately 7:00 p.m.

Life Legal is representing Anastasia and is actively reviewing the circumstances surrounding her arrest and the charges against her. Life Legal Director of Criminal Litigation Allison Aranda will appear on Anastasia’s behalf at a court hearing [December 22].

As the responding officer outside the facility seemed to imply that he was called due to claims that Rogers was "in front of [Planned Parenthood's] door hanging out, being aggressive" — not for Rogers's social media activity — Life Legal's statement that she was arrested "following an allegation... that she had used 'threatening language' in a social media post..." only raises more questions regarding the circumstances of Rogers' arrest.

Life Legal appears to have made no further posts regarding Rogers' arrest since December 22. Live Action News reached out for an update but had not yet received a response prior to the time of publication.

The Big Picture:

In recent years, pro-lifers have been heavily targeted under the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which was designed to protect access to abortion facilities.

The Biden administration began to target pro-lifers more aggressively when it became apparent that the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade, which eventually did take place on June 24, 2022 with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.

While the FACE Act is also supposed to protect houses of worship and pregnancy resource centers, attacks against these types of institutions increased exponentially following the May 2022 leak of the Supreme Court's draft opinion in Dobbs. However, reports of FACE Act arrests against pro-abortion perpetrators of these crimes were few, even as arrests of pro-lifers on FACE Act charges skyrocketed under the Biden administration.

From 2022 to 2024, pro-life activists were arrested and later sentenced — some, for up to nearly five years in prison — before they were pardoned by President Trump shortly after he took office in January 2025. Subsequently, Trump's Department of Justice ordered that enforcement of the FACE Act only be carried out in “extraordinary circumstances” — such as when death, extreme bodily harm, or significant property damage occur during an act against a ‘reproductive health care’ facility, which includes abortion facilities and pregnancy resource centers. Violations of the FACE Act would from then on be handled by state or local law enforcement with exceptions for federal investigations in cases that include “significant aggravating factors.”

The Bottom Line:

As for Rogers, regardless of the reasons for her arrest, she says she is not going to stop her pro-life outreach.

“If Planned Parenthood thinks that throwing me in jail for 7 hours or 7 days is going to stop me from loving my neighbor — the preborn child," she said, "they’re wrong."