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Data Confirms DOJ Became Weaponized Against Pro-Lifers Under Biden: Report

Charlie Kirk Staff

07/31/2024

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Data Confirms DOJ Became Weaponized Against Pro-Lifers Under Biden: Report

The Biden administration is applying a unique interpretation of an 1870 statute to increase the sentences of peaceful abortion protesters, according to exclusive data provided to the Daily Caller.

In the 30-year history of the Freedom of Access to Clinics (FACE) Act, the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued over a quarter of the law’s total charges in just over three years. Many of these charges have included this novel sentence enhancement, the data reveals, according to a Daily Caller investigation.

The data and the unprecedented sentence enhancement fuel conservative criticisms that the Biden administration is unfairly targeting pro-lifers and using the DOJ for political purposes.

Under previous administrations, threats to harm or kill clinic employees often resulted in less severe punishments. However, under the Biden administration, even elderly women peacefully protesting at abortion clinics have faced significantly harsher consequences. Despite hundreds of attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and churches following the 2022 Roe v. Wade decision leak, the DOJ has prosecuted only five individuals for these offenses, the report continued.

The Caller continued:

From 1994 to 2024, there were 205 cases against pro-life activists and only six against abortion activists, data provided to the Caller by Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy’s office reveals. Prosecutions of pro-life individuals constitute roughly 97% of all FACE Act cases. 

At least 55 of those cases were prosecuted during the Biden administration, only five of which involved attacks on pregnancy resource centers. In less than four years, Biden’s DOJ has accounted for over a quarter of all FACE prosecutions and approximately 24% of cases targeting pro-life activists, the data demonstrates.

The FACE Act became law in 1994 and prohibits “violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain or provide reproductive health services,” according to the DOJ. The law also applies to pro-life pregnancy resource centers and places of worship.

Critics argue that the Biden administration is weaponizing the FACE Act against individuals who protest abortion. Over the past two years, FBI agents have raided the homes of pro-life activists such as Mark Houck and Paul Vaughn, with Houck being acquitted and Vaughn avoiding prison time during Biden’s presidency.

FACE “has been politicized and abused to target peaceful pro-life advocates,” while activists “who violently attacked” pro-life clinics walk free, Erin Hawley, Vice President of the Center for Life and Regulatory Practice at the Alliance for Defending Freedom (ADF), told the outlet.

She noted how the DOJ prosecuted at least 26 pro-life individuals in 2022 but absolutely no left-wing activists “who obstructed or vandalized pregnancy care centers.”

In 2023, Roy and Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee introduced legislation to repeal the FACE Act.

“Biden’s Department of Justice has brazenly weaponized the FACE Act against normal, everyday Americans across the political spectrum, simply because they are pro-life,” Roy stated in a press release.

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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