![]() ![]() The Republicans said that the Justice Department’s “lackluster response” to attacks on pro-life facilities shows that the “Biden administration would rather cater to the radical anti-life movement than help facilities that protect pregnant women in need,” demanding documents and communications on FACE Act enforcements, the Department’s Reproductive Rights Task Force, attacks on pregnancy resource centers, and Mark Houck by Oct. “While the FBI says that it is investigating a ‘series of attacks and threats targeting pregnancy resource centers, faith-based organizations, and reproductive health clinics,’ to our knowledge, the Department and FBI have not executed any SWAT team dawn raids to make arrests of anti-life activists,” they added. “There has been no outcry or press conference from the Justice Department in response to this crime,” Jordan and Johnson pointed out. They also pointed to the attack on an 84-year-old pro-life Michigan volunteer, who was shot by a Michigan man while canvassing on a pro-abortion ballot proposal. The Republicans note that Garland released no press release regarding an investigation or charges into the attack on HOPE Pregnancy Center, a pro-life pregnancy center in his judicial district. The Justice Department’s treatment of Houck “stands in stark contrast to its treatment” of the attacks on pro-life facilities, the letter said.Īt least 83 Catholic churches and 73 pregnancy resource centers or pro-life organizations have been attacked, vandalized, firebombed, or burnt to the ground since the draft Dobbs opinion was leaked in May, according to Catholic Vote trackers. The Republicans note that the FACE Act, which “prohibits threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services,” also protects “pro-life pregnancy counseling services and any other pregnancy support facility providing reproductive health care.” “The Department has almost exclusively enforced the FACE Act to protect pro-abortion activists while failing to prosecute harassment and intimidation of pro-life supporters,” Jordan and Johnson wrote. The Republicans also accuse the Justice Department of targeting pro-life activists. “The Department’s decision to arrest Houck, as well as the tactics used to effectuate the arrest, are troubling,” the letter said, noting that Houck’s wife recounted how FBI “had about five guns pointed at my husband, myself and basically at my kids,” and emphasizing that Houck’s attorney “subsequently disclosed that the dawn raid was unnecessary because Houck had offered to appear voluntarily and the FBI targeted Houck ‘solely to intimidate people of faith and pro-life Americans.’” In the letter, first obtained by The Daily Signal, Jordan and Johnson reference the FBI’s raid on the home of Mark Houck, a Catholic father arrested for allegedly pushing a pro-abortion activist who allegedly harassed his son. ![]() They continued: “We write to conduct oversight of your authorization of a dawn raid of the home of a pro-life leader, in front of his wife and seven children, when he had offered to voluntarily cooperate with authorities.” Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Justice Department has politicized enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.” “Since the unprecedented leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Attorney General Merrick Garland. “Several recent actions by the Department reinforce the conclusion that the Justice Department is using its federal law enforcement authority as a weapon against the administration’s political opponents,” the Republican congressmen said in a letter to both Jacqueline Romero, the U.S. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mike Johnson of Louisiana are launching a congressional inquiry into the Justice Department’s political enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, The Daily Signal has learned.
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