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GOP House Bill Aims To Strike Down Law Used To Imprison Peaceful Pro-Life Protesters

In recent years, there have been multiple troubling reports of peaceful Americans demonstrating, praying, or singing outside of abortion clinics who were later charged with serious crimes under the controversial Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

While Republicans have been pushing to repeal the legislation for some time, the recent inauguration of President Donald Trump seems to be reinvigorating the effort.

One lawmaker, U.S. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) re-introduced one such bill this week, as Brietbart reported:

“Americans just spent the last four years being targeted by a weaponized justice system. The FACE Act was one of the primary weapons of abuse — being used to politically target, arrest, and jail pro-life Americans for speaking out and standing up for life.” Roy said in a statement. “While President Trump and his team are already fast at work reversing the damage of the J6 political prosecutions and persecutions through pardons and commutations, I am hopeful those targeted under the FACE Act will be given similar relief. But importantly, we in Congress need to do our part to eliminate the laws used for the weaponization, including the FACE Act.”

Data obtained by Roy’s office found that in less than four years, Biden’s DOJ accounted for more than a quarter of all 211 FACE prosecutions since the law’s inception. At least 55 FACE Act cases were prosecuted during the Biden administration, only a handful of which were against pro-abortion attacks on pregnancy centers, despite the increase in attacks against pro-life pregnancy centers and churches following the Supreme Court’s Dobbsdecision.

Biden’s DOJ has bolstered potential sentencing time by ten years in some cases by using the KKK-era “conspiracy against rights” charge paired with the FACE Act. For a few cases, the FBI has allegedly conducted early morning raids against pro-life advocates, even allegedly holding them at gunpoint in front of their families.

Trump’s return to the White House has also prompted calls for him to pardon those who have been the target of FACE Act prosecutions:

Fox News reported on some of the pressure Trump has received in the first few days of his second term:

Steve Crampton, a senior counsel at the Thomas More Society, told Fox News Digital that it is “absolutely vital” these activists be pardoned to restore equality under the law.

“We hope by President Trump’s actions here that he will restore some sanity and rule of law to the approach of the Department of Justice and the FBI, but also help move this culture back toward a culture of life rather than one of death,” said Crampton. “This small act on his part would, in fact, serve to kind of ignite a momentous movement toward restoring a respect for life in this nation that’s so desperately needed.”

Trump indicated several times during his campaign that he is open to issuing pardons for some of these pro-lifers who were prosecuted under a federal law called the Freedom of Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The activists were convicted of FACE Act violations for participating in various “sit-in” protests inside abortion clinics in Washington, D.C., Nashville, Detroit, Long Island and Manhattan.

The following clip reveals what Trump had to say about such laws in September:


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