DOJ Pledges To End ‘Weaponization’ Of FACE Act, Drop Three Ongoing CasesRobert McGreevy
Reporter
January 24, 2025 3:02 PM ET
The Department of Justice (DOJ) pledged to end the federal government’s weaponization of the law, instructing the Civil Rights Division to dismiss with prejudice three FACE Act cases that targeted pro-life protesters, according to a memorandum obtained by the Daily Caller.
The DOJ under former President Joe Biden used the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to prosecute a relatively large number of pro-life protesters. The 1994 law prohibits “violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain or provide reproductive health services.” The majority of the pro-life protesters Biden’s DOJ prosecuted under the FACE Act were nonviolent.
“Even though more than 100 crisis pregnancy centers, pro-life organizations, and churches were attacked in the immediate aftermath of the Dobbs decision, nearly all prosecutions under the FACE Act have been against pro-life protesters. That is not the even-handed administration of justice,” reads the DOJ memorandum the Daily Caller obtained.
Future abortion-related FACE Act prosecutions will only be permitted in “extraordinary circumstances,” such as cases involving “death, serious bodily harm, or serious property damage,” the memorandum reads.
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https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/24/doj-weaponization-face-act-cases-abortion-clinic-pro-life-connolly-zastrow-citizens-pro-life-society/
