Release of Anti-Abortion Activist OKd in Florida
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Bob Martinez secured Cabinet approval Friday to commute the five-year prison sentence ofanti-abortion activist Joan Andrews for the 1986 invasion of a Pensacola abortion clinic that resulted in injury to the clinic director and damage to equipment.
Andrews will be extradited to Pennsylvania to face sentencing on charges in a 1985 demonstration at a clinic in Pittsburgh.
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