Biden Admin Sets up Justice Department ‘Task Force’ to Police, Challenge Pro-Life Laws

LifeSite News ^ | 7/13/22 | Ashley Sadler

[marshmallow]

'The Justice Department is committed to protecting access to reproductive services,' Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday announced the launch of a “reproductive rights task force” to police states’ pro-life laws.

The DOJ task force will monitor states’ abortion restrictions to prevent “overreach,” and consider legal challenges against additional protections for the unborn, including bans on abortion-inducing drugs and laws preventing women from traveling out of state to kill their unborn babies, The Washington Post reported.

“The Justice Department is committed to protecting access to reproductive services,” Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said in a statement, according to the Post.

The move to establish a task force for policing state’s pro-life laws comes after the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which reversed 49 years of federal abortion precedent by overturning Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).

In Dobbs, the Court ruled that Roe had been wrongly decided, and that there is no “constitutional right to abortion.” Instead, the Court decided to return the regulation of abortion to the states, rather than the federal government.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Dobbs essentially sent it back to the individual states to deal with which is consistent with the Tenth Amendment.

How can the Feds step in to “monitor” what the states are doing and not be in violation of the Dobbs ruling? Isn’t this a direct end-run around Dobbs?

It sounds like this is going to be another case before SCOTUS.

[Revel]

Taxpayer dollars are paying for this.

[Mark17]

Joe potato is practicing the old religion of Cain, the first servant of Satan.

The great white throne is waiting.

[aimhigh]

So, if I read this right, the DOJ is now going to do the ACLU’s job.

[Psalm 73]

"...the leftists in the Federal Government continued as if he were not the POTUS."

Yes. And THAT was the real "insurrection".

This WILL end soon, one way or another.

[sergeantdave]

Any diktats issued by the so-called “Justice” department can be ignored because states are sovereigns. Bureaucrats are not sovereigns.

[JoJo354]

I would think this would be unconstitutional because the states have rights that doesn’t apply to the feds. Half of the country (probably more than half) do not agree with abortion on demand to start with so now us taxpayers are on the hook for a fed program to tell the states what they can and cannot do regarding abortion? Wow.