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 108 STAT. 694 PUBLIC LAW 103-259—MAY 26, 1994 Public Law 103-259 103d Congress An Act May 26, 1994 To amend title 18, United States Code, to assure freedom of access to reproductive [S. 636] services. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Freedom of the United States of America in Congress assembled. Entrances Act of SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1994 18 USC 248 note This Act may be cited as the "Freedom of Access to CUnic Entrances Act of 1994". 18 USC 248 note. SEC. 2. PURPOSE. Pursuant to the affirmative power of Congress to enact this legislation under section 8 of article I of the Constitution, as well as under section 5 of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, it is the purpose of this Act to protect and promote the public safety and health and activities Effecting interstate commerce by establishing Federal criminal penalties and civil remedies for certain violent, threatening, obstructive and destructive conduct that is intended to injure, intimidate or interfere with persons seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services. SEC. 3. FREEDOM OF ACCESS TO CLINIC ENTRANCES. Chapter 13 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "§ 248 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances. "(a) PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES. — Whoever— "(1) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person because that person is or has been, or in order to intimidate such person or any other person or any class of persons from, obtaining or providing reproductive health services; "(2) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship; or "(3) intentionally damages or destroys the property of a facility, or attempts to do so, because such facility provides reproductive health services, or intentionally damages or destroys the property of a place of religious worship, shall be subject to the penalties provided in subsection (b) and the civil remedies provided in subsection (c), except that a parent

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