Department of Justice (DOJ) data reveals how the Biden administration has used the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to specifically target pro-life activists, despite the statute’s original intent of protecting abortion clinics as well as pro-life pregnancy centers and houses of worship.
The FACE Act, which former President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994, prohibits “violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain or provide reproductive health services.” Between 1994 to 2024, there have been approximately 211 FACE Act cases — 205 of those cases have been brought against pro-life activists, while only six have been brought against pro-abortion activists, the Daily Caller reported, citing data provided by Rep. Chip Roy’s (R-TX) office.
Ultimately, the data shows that 97 percent of all FACE Act cases have been against pro-life activists since the law’s passage, according to the report.
The data also appears to confirm the suspicions of Republican lawmakers and pro-life activists that the Biden administration has used the statute to aggressively go after pro-life activists, despite the increase in attacks against pro-life pregnancy centers and churches following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. The decision was first leaked in May of 2022 before being officially published on June 24, 2022, and ended the invented constitutional right to abortion, sending the issue back to individual states and their elected representatives.
At least 55 FACE Act cases have been prosecuted during the Biden administration, only five of which involved pro-abortion attacks on pregnancy centers, the Daily Caller found, alleging the data “confirms conservative fears” of a “Biden weaponized justice system.”
“In less than four years, Biden’s DOJ has accounted for over a quarter of all FACE prosecutions and approximately 24 percent of cases targeting pro-life activists, the data demonstrates,” the report states.
