Posted on 10/07/2022 11:54:23 PM PDT by John Semmens
In a bid to help bolster the Democrats' main campaign issue, the Department of Justice has stepped up its efforts to portray peaceful protests outside abortion clinics as domestic terrorism.
Two weeks ago a heavily-armed squad of 20 FBI agents arrested pro-life activist Mark Houck at his home in front of his wife and children. Though the case against him was already thrown out by a Pennsylvania state court last year, the DOJ decided to take a "second bite of the apple" and press federal charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Houck's attorney, Peter Breen, criticized the massive show of force, calling it "completely unnecessary. Mr. Houck is no dangerous felon. He would have voluntarily responded to a simple summons."
This week, a similar posse of armed FBI agents swarmed the home of Chet Gallagher and not finding him on the premises, demanded his wife tell them where they could find him. Gallagher is one of 11 pro-life activists charged with violating the FACE Act by standing outside the Carafem abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, in March 2021.
Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the heavy-handed methods as "necessary to convey the Administration's 'no tolerance' stance against any interference with a woman's right to obtain an abortion. The prayer gatherings outside of abortion clinics are designed to unnerve, humiliate, and deter women from choosing to abort their unwanted babies. This is in express opposition to the President's determination to countermand the Supreme Court's illegal repudiation of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that gave every woman freedom of choice in reproductive matters."
The aggressive action against the peaceful demonstrations of pro-life advocates stands in stark contrast to the DOJ's apparent indifference to actual violent attacks by pro-abortion activists like the Jane's Revenge group that bombed dozens of life-saving crisis pregnancy centers across the country.
Garland denied indifference and explained that "it's a matter of prioritizing our resources to fight the greater evil. Given the threat to the climate posed by a growing population, it is essential that every means of lessening that population must be preserved. Aborting unneeded lives is more politically tolerable than euthanizing millions of unneeded adults. Fetuses can't vote. And as recent polls have shown, a majority of adult women will vote for the candidates who will ensure that abortion rights are protected."
In related news, the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Children's Hospital Association have jointly signed a letter urging the DOJ "to prosecute those who publicly criticize transgender surgeries for minors. Restricting access to these surgeries to adults will condemn the great majority of those seeking to correct nature's mistake to grotesque outcomes of the sort experienced by United States Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine and constitute a crime against humanity."
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They can find all these people, but still can’t figure out who Ray Epps is? 🤪😆👎👎👎👎👎
DOJ = Stasi
This is political revenge for the court ending Roe v. Wade
by Sataniacs in the highest levels of law enforcement.
They want their blood sacrifice.
You just insulted the Stasi. 🤪🤭
NKVD?
They’re all the same.
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