FBI Arrests Two Pro-Life Advocates for Protesting Abortion, Ignore 160 Attacks on Pro-Lifers

The FBI has arrested two more pro-life people for protesting at abortion clinics. But Joe Biden’s law enforcmenet agency still hasn’t arrested a single person after more than 160 acts of violence against churches, pro-life groups and pregnancy centers.

The latest arrests involve two women from Tennessee who were charged under the federal FACE law in New York on Friday with unlawfully blocking access to abortion businesses in multiple states over the years.

Bevelyn Beatty Williams, 31 and Edmee Chavannes, 41, (pictured in file photo) were both arrested by FBI agents today according to a statement by U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, who said they “repeatedly attempted — including by using threats, and on at least one occasion, force — to prevent individuals from accessing their legal right to reproductive health services.”

“This office will remain committed to ensuring that healthcare facilities, their staff, and those seeking to obtain reproductive health services can continue to do so without unlawful interference,” Williams said in a statement.

Both are charged with violating the FACE Act, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Williams faces an additional charge of violating the FACE Act through force, which carries up to 10 years.

Earlier this month, attorneys for pro-life advocate Mark Houck have filed a motion in federal court seeking to dismiss the bogus charges filed against him by Joe Biden’s Justice Department for peacefully protesting abortion.

For the nearly three decades since FACE was enacted in 1994, it has rarely been used to prosecute life advocates. Yet in 2022 alone, under the Biden/Garland DOJ, there have been at least 22 peaceful pro-life activists indicted under the act — with the first case involving pro-life advocate Mark Houck, whose family was raided after an altercation at a Philadelphia abortion business last year where he accidentally pushed down a man who was verbally accosting his 12-year-old son.

Attorneys with the Thomas More Society, a pro-life legal group representing Houck, have moved to dismiss federal charges against the pro-life family man whose dawn arrest by armed FBI in front of his wife and young children shocked America.

The motion filed this week in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleges that the prosecution of Houck violates the U.S. Constitution due to the Biden administration’s viewpoint discrimination and selective prosecution against him and other pro-life Americans. Additionally, Houck and his legal team are accusing the government of violations of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and Free Exercise Clause and arguing that the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (“FACE”) Act is unconstitutional, especially as applied to Houck.

Houck was arraigned in federal court on September 27, 2022, on two counts of violating the federal FACE Act outside a Pennsylvania abortion facility in October 2021.

Thomas More Society Vice President and Senior Counsel Peter Breen spoke to the charges against Houck in an email to LifeNews.

“The Biden administration has filed two defective and discriminatory charges against Mark Houck under the FACE Act, and both should be dismissed,” stated Breen. “Both counts allege that Mark Houck interfered with a volunteer so-called ‘escort,’ when in reality, it was that escort who initiated the incidents and wronged Mark Houck—first obstructing Mark’s sidewalk counseling and then harassing his 12-year-old son.”

Houck’s Motion to Dismiss goes on to detail viewpoint discrimination and selective prosecution, noting that the aggression and obstruction committed by Houck’s accuser have still not been acted upon by law enforcement. Additionally, the Biden administration has “altogether failed to prosecute more than 150 acts of physical damage and destruction inflicted on pregnancy resource centers and churches across the country—in express violation of FACE—since the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in May 2022. Yet it has filed FACE charges against no fewer than 26 pro-life individuals in 2022—an exponentially higher number than any time in recent history, while prominent and nationwide proabortion FACE violations remain unpunished.”

Referencing additional facts from the filing, Breen explained that “The Department of Justice has demonstrated clear and illegal hostility to the pro-life viewpoint in its statements and enforcement decisions, running roughshod over fundamental religious freedoms and free speech rights, and bringing an illegal selective prosecution here.”

Breen also pointed out that there is no general police power delegated to the federal government under the United States Constitution.

“Yet,” recounted Breen, “a general police power is what the government seeks to exercise here, indicting Mr. Houck for actions that lack any federal jurisdictional nexus and that are, at most, a matter of state law. Application of FACE to Mr. Houck exceeds the bounds of any powers granted to the federal government by the Constitution and offends both principles of federalism and the Tenth Amendment.”

“This case is being brought solely to intimidate people of faith and pro-life Americans,” stated Breen. “Mark Houck is innocent of these lawless charges, and we intend to prove that in court.”

While the FBI has focused on arresting pro-life advocates, it has done nothing to arrest any of the violence pro-abortion extremists who have engaged in over 160 acts of violence against pro-life Americans.

According to Catholic Vote, at least 86 Catholic churches and 77 pro-life organizations have been victims of firebombs, vandalism and other attacks since May when someone leaked a draft ruling of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case.

In November, FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed most of the abortion-related attacks this year have targeted pro-lifers. “Since the Dobbs decision, probably in the neighborhood of 70 percent of our abortion-related violence cases or threats cases are cases of violence or threats against … pro-life organizations,” he told a U.S. Senate committee.

Many churches and pro-life organizations are increasing security and Republican lawmakers are demanding action from the Biden administration to crack down on the growing pro-abortion domestic terrorism. But, while the Biden administration has been aggressively working to expand the killing of unborn babies in abortions, it has done little to stop the violence and hostilities directed at pro-life advocates and churches.

LifeNews has been keeping track of reports of arson, vandalism, pro-abortion violence and other incidents targeting pro-life advocates since May. They include:

Ohio – Pro-Life Billboard in Columbus Vandalized with Pro-Abortion Graffiti (Right to Life of Northeast Ohio)

Americans are prevented from accessing their legal right to go to work or go shopping or go home by people blocking roads because they feel like it who don’t get harassed by the fbi.

If He doesn’t come soon, I don’t know what will remain after all of the damage from these Godless Democrats.

The spirit of antichrist is very busy these days.

23 posted on 12/19/2022 2:24:33 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

Protesting is highly successful, its why the progressives don’t want us doing it.

They want to force us to stay in our lanes, don’t look around, go to work, and act like all is well. Just vote, but never ever engage in culture.

25 posted on 12/19/2022 3:40:09 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)

Why are the feds making arrests in county/state jurisdictions?

there seems to be a lot of that lately

Probably they are doing it because the county/state wouldn’t.

Isn’t it interesting that all the bad press the FBI is getting isn’t even slowing them down. Doesn’t even faze them.

I would guess around 2000, 10% of employees at FBI were Republican. Today? I bet it’s 1%. I don’t have the data. Just an educated guess. No patriotic American is going to want to work for FBI today. So they are going to attract Democrats. As a result, we are having problems like this.

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The fact that 98% of Washington DC and the surrounding suburbs voted Democrat tells you all you need to know about the tyranny that evolved over the last few decades in this country.

29 posted on 12/20/2022 7:04:06 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)

The fact that 98% of Washington DC and the surrounding suburbs voted Democrat tells you all you need to know about the tyranny that evolved over the last few decades in this country.

It'll continue to get worse. 9/11 was bad. I wasn't talking about the deaths that happened on that day. But the fact that we gave up all the powers to the feds. Now the American people are the "terrorists".

These two have been fighting the good fight for a long time.

Yes, I remember they were painting over the "BLM" that was painted on Fifth Ave in front of Trump Tower. Glad to see they are still out there.

What do you expect from the “Law Enforcement” wing of “the Socialist People’s Dimocratic Communist Homo Thieving Criminal Gang” once called Democrat Party of FDR’s Socialist Party of Amerika. I don’t trust one damned thing the FBI does these days. They couldn’t find a “true fact or piece of evidence” if they have, they’re @$$ in their hands. Stupid lying criminals.

32 posted on 12/21/2022 6:52:49 PM PST by RetiredArmy (POLITICIANS ARE NOT THE ANSWER!! Jesus Christ is THE Way, THE Truth & THE Life. Only by Him!!)

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