Six pro-life protesters were found guilty in late January of violating the national Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act by preventing access to a Mountain. pregnancy center. Juliet, Tennessee in 2021. The FACE Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, punishes “violent, threatening destructive, and obstructive conduct intended to offend, intimidate, or tamper with the right to get, get, or offer” abortions.  ,
The plaintiffs each experience a maximum sentence of more than ten years in prison, three years of supervised release, as well as up to$ 260.000 in charges for their peaceful show, which included hymns and meditation.  ,
Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, a pro-life terrorist who bombed Wisconsin Family Action’s 2022 headquarters on Mother’s Day, received a sentence of 7.5 years in prison ( minus time served ) plus three years of supervised release on one count of malicious damage done by fire or explosives to property used in interstate commerce on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama appointed U.S. District Court Judge William Conley to the Northern Wisconsin District bench, who handed down the sentence based on a little lighter cost than the domestic terrorism and conspiracy charges that Roychowdhury’s alleged accomplices charged. With good habits and occasion served, the criminal will assist but five decades, according to legal experts.  ,
” Roychowdhury’s fire was an act of private terrorism”, U. S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea for the Eastern District of Wisconsin said in a statement. ” The U. S. Department of Justice, and this U. S. Attorney’s Office, with our local and federal law enforcement partners did not flinch from holding local extremists responsible”.
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Aggressive Tactics:
Anti-life activists who are accused of domestic terrorism have definitely received the book from the Justice Department.  ,
In 2022, Mark Houck and his relatives were greeted with an FBI assault and detained on FACE Act fees. Houck was found not guilty by a Philadelphia jurors universally. Houck’s family, Ryan- Marie Houck, told the Catholic News Agency that some 25 providers with more than a few vehicles showed up at the family’s apartment” and started pounding on our entry”.
They threatened to break in if he did n’t open it, they said. And then they had about five cannons pointed at my father, myself, and generally at my children”, she told CNA at the time.  ,
In addition, unhinged crowds screamed outside of their homes as Supreme Court justices were threatened with assassination by pro-choice advocates for the newborn. One man was detained outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house and charged with attempted murder. However, Attorney General Merrick Garland, a leftist stooge, would n’t raise a finger to defend the justices.  ,  ,
Since the Biden administration’s pledge to use every resource available to protect the right of women to undermine pro-life state laws passed in the midst of the Supreme Court‘s Dobbs v. Jackson determination, the FBI has increased its use of extreme tactics against pro-life American. This now includes large- handed unequal enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances ( FACE ) Act against pro- life activists”, Brian Burch, chairman of Catholic Vote, wrote in an ops- ed for Newsweek headlined,” The Campaign To Intimidate Churches, Pro- Life Organizations Is Getting Worse” . ,
By comparison, Tyler Massengill, who used a homemade explosive to set fire to a Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Peoria, Illinois, was sentenced in August to 10 years in prison. No one was inside the Planned Parenthood building at the time of the attack, as was the case with Roychowdhury’s May 2022 use of Molotov cocktails to set fire to the Wisconsin Family Action office.  ,
In the Peoria firebombing sentencing, U. S. District Judge James Shadid said women seeking abortions and a “variety of services” were inconvenienced, according to WMBD- TV.
The judge added that, in addition to your accomplishments, there is the fear, stress, and inconvenience that thousands of patients and employees from numerous other Planned Parenthood facilities experience when they consider whether they should be next among misguided people like you.  ,
Yes, pro- life advocates can relate.  ,
Days of Rage
The first sentence for Roychowdhury comes after a string of attacks on pro-life organizations and supporters of the 2022 Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, which was held against the constitutionally flawed case.  ,
The Madison attack on May 8, 2022, just after 6 a.m., was one of the first in the wake of a leaked Politico report about the high court’s plans to repeal Roe and its federalized protections of abortion. A burned-black, broken mason jar was discovered beneath a broken window by investigators. A painted threat was scrawled on the building’s exterior:” If abortions are n’t safe then you are n’t either” . ,
Up until late in March 2023, Roychowdhury’s arrest resulted in the terrorist being foiled by a half-eaten burrito. Investigators needed the evidence to apprehend him based on the DNA recovered from the dinner.
Jane’s Revenge, a militant pro- abortion group, claimed responsibility for the attack, demanding pro- life centers face “increasingly extreme tactics to maintain freedom over our bodies”.  ,
” Wisconsin is the first flashpoint, but we are all over the US, and we will issue no further warnings”, a Jane’s Revenge statement declared. It later called for” a night of rage” . ,
Pro-abortion terrorists vented their fury in numerous incidents, including an arson attack on a New York pro-life pregnancy center. Significant damage was caused by the attack by CompassCare Pregnancy Services.  ,
Rev. Jim Harden, CompassCare CEO, said the organization’s private investigators believe there may be a connection to Roychowdhury” and want to know if he turned state’s evidence, revealing his accomplices in the terror attack, the identity of the’ grant‘ funders to which he referred in his text messages, as well as identifying the mid- level and upper echelon Antifa leaders”.
According to Harden, the sentencing would lead the public to believe that this is just another example of misguided arson rather than a political stunt showcasing a multi-national Marxist revolution.  ,
Emblazoned on My Mind:
Judge Conley described Roychowdhury’s actions as terrorist acts, according to those who attended this week’s sentencing, but they also believed the firebombing was viewed as an error of judgment. In essence, Do n’t judge the terrorist’s entire life on one bad day.  ,
Julaine Appling, president emeritus of Wisconsin Family Action, said her organization is disappointed with the softer sentencing. In response to the misguided terrorist’s victim statement, Appling suggested that she be sentenced to 15 years in prison, in large part because Roychowdhury was discovered to have accessed a White Pages account to track Appling and another staff member.  ,
She continued,” This is very, very personal to me,” adding that Roychowdhury has n’t been forthcoming about his involvement in the Madison firebombing.  ,
In a Wisconsin Family Action statement issued on Thursday, Appling said,” May 8, 2022, is forever emblazoned on my mind. It served as a stark reminder that those who disagree with us can and will use violence to try to silence us.
This was the first of nearly 100 attacks on prolife organizations across the country, according to the police.  , In light of this, we are disappointed in the judge’s decision regarding a crime the judge called’ terrorism’ multiple times”, Appling added.  ,
She stated to me that despite her assertion that the top levels of the Biden Justice Department are “rotten to the core,” the FBI agents and other officers who worked on the case were very knowledgeable and did seek justice for the act of terrorism. Appling noted the U. S. attorney’s office in Madison had recommended a sentence of 12 to 15 years.  ,
The court “missed an opportunity to strengthen the protection of constitutional rights like free speech and free exercise, which have themselves been under assault in recent years,” according to Christine File, president of Wisconsin Family Action.
” The defendant’s act of domestic terrorism to threaten our people, our families and friends, our neighbors, and our greater pro- life community is unconscionable”, she said in the statement.
Appling asserts that she definitely sees the disparity in justice as a result of judicial discretion and the law enforcement approach at the politically sophisticated DOJ.  ,
Matt Kittle covers The Federalist’s senior elections coverage. An award- winning investigative reporter and 30- year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
