Posted on 05/17/2023 5:10:39 PM PDT by Twotone
The Biden administration is selectively prosecuting pro-life activists on trumped-up federal charges of inhibiting access to abortion clinics while turning a blind eye to vandalism and threats against pro-life pregnancy resource centers.
Criminal attacks on abortion clinics are so "run of the mill" that staff don't report most of them to law enforcement, creating a "false equivalency" to threats against PRCs.
These were the dueling narratives Tuesday between Republicans and Democrats, respectively, at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on "the implications" of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a 1994 law that protects any facility that offers "reproductive health services" including PRCs, churches and abortion clinics.
Both parties used the release a day earlier of Special Counsel John Durham's long-delayed final report on the FBI's Russia collusion probe – which vindicated former President Trump and while savaging U.S. law enforcement and the intelligence community – to validate their talking point about the clinics and First Amendment rights.
The Durham report validates Americans' fears that anyone can become a federal target on thin grounds, said subcommittee Chairman Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican.
"You could be a Catholic attending a mass" and face federal investigation, said Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the full House Judiciary Committee, referring to the FBI's documented interest in infiltrating Catholic parishes to identify "radical-traditionalist" elements.
New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, the full committee's top Democrat, dismissed the "discredited" report as just "opinions," while Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson, a fellow Democrat, repeatedly called it the "Bull Durham report," possibly referencing either the 1988 Kevin Costner baseball movie or Alabama segregationist Bull Connor.
The Georgia Democrat also accused Republicans of including churches in the hearing to "confuse the public" and inflate the threat to "so-called pro-life pregnancy centers."
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Nadler the penguin also called antifa a myth. What a knucklehead!
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Which will just cause the regime to double down.
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