1.   As a U.S. attorney in Buffalo, Vacco, who is personally opposed to abortion, resisted enforcing a court order against abortion protesters blocking a clinic entrance.

2.   A police officer made him remove white crosses he had placed in protest near the clinic entrance.

3.   Hundreds of demonstrators were arrested for weeks on end as they tried to block clinic entrances in New York, Atlanta, Wichita and other cities.

4.   More than a hundred protesters, arrested as they blocked clinic entrances and intersections, were packed into a wing of the Key Road Detention Facility.

5.   The protesters are not allowed to stand as close as they used to or to form human blockades outside the clinic entrance.

6.   There is a small black plaque memorializing the doctor, David Gunn, at the clinic entrance.

7.   Lower U.S. federal courts had previously found that the anti-abortion protesters illegally blocked clinic entrances and menaced doctors and patients.

8.   Lower U.S. federal courts had previously found that the anti-abortion protesters illegally blocked clinic entrances and menaced doctors, patients and clinic staff.