California drops charges against anti-abortion activist for filming video

Published September 24, 2026 11:56am ET



California gave up on prosecuting a protester for posting a video criticizing Planned Parenthood, the defendant’s activist group announced Wednesday.

A San Francisco County court dropped charges on Wednesday against Anastasia Rogers over the roughly 14-second Instagram video that got her arrested in December, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust said in a statement. The court granted Rogers a diversion program in June, which opened the possibility of the charges being dropped after jurors deadlocked in a trial weeks earlier, court records show.

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