Without a doubt, the Biden administration is constantly threatening Americans with prison time for calmly praying and fighting for unborn lives in national pregnancy mills.
Since the introduction of the unconstitutional Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances ( FACE ) Act in 1994, the federal government had brought fewer than 100 prosecutions by the time President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.
That’s fewer than four targetings a time under a rules that, as Republican Rep. Chip Roy noted in a 2023 email, “had never , been used to prosecute individuals related to an assault on a pro- living pregnancy center or house of worship”.
In 2022 only, yet, more than two dozen , pro- lifers , were persecuted by the Biden- led Department of Justice with FACE Act costs. Over the last two decades, that number has only grown.
When The Biden DOJ charged Mark Houck with violating the FACE Act after protecting his child from an enraged pregnancy advocate across the street from a Planned Parenthood in 2021, it officially kicked off its battle against Christian pro-lifers. Up to 11 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and fines totaling$ 350,000 were included in the indictment.
The Biden administration made a spectacular imprisonment of Houck at his home residence in September 2022 in a clear try to “intimidate people of faith and pro-life American” by deploying , FBI equipped with battering ram and nuclear shields. His wife and seven kids, who were present during the , attack, recounted , that officials “had huge, big rifle pointed at Mark and pointed at me and kind of noted throughout the house”.
Houck was later cleared by a federal judge after months of constitutional wars. The lots of other pro- slackers targeted by the Biden government, but, were not so fortunate.
In an extraordinary growth of the sentence time , often dealt to persons protecting newborn infants, prosecutors threatened Lauren Handy and several of her fellow , Progressive Anti- Pregnancy Uprising , ( PAAU) members with up to 11 years in federal prison after they were convicted of allegedly violating the FACE Act , and participating in a Conspiracy Against Rights.
A district judge in the United States confirmed in May that the 30-year-old had to offer 57 months and be under three years of control for her involvement in the peaceful protest against one of the country’s most contentious abortion facilities. One of Handy’s other plaintiffs, Paulette Harlow, is scheduled to spend the next 24 months in jail for actions like” staying up, praying the Rosary, and singing songs to the Blessed Virgin Mary.”
Handy and her captain’s consequently- called crimes included initiating a “rescue and protest” at overdue- word abortionist Cesare Santangelo’s Washington, D. C., service in October 2020. As Handy’s lawyers at the Thomas More Society , noted, the 10 defendants” simply kneeled and prayed at Santangelo’s facility, some passed out pro- life literature and counseled abortion- minded women, and others roped and chained themselves together inside the facility”.
Paul Vaughn and Eva Edl, both 87 years old, who” survived a communist concentration camp,” were similarly portrayed in a similar situation. They were among the 11 pro- lifers who were raided, charged, and convicted for peacefully protesting outside of a Tennessee abortion facility.
Footage of the March 2021 event shows the group singing, reading scripture, and praying in the hallway of the building that houses the Mt. Juliet abortion facility.
Vaughn, a father of 11 who has plans to appeal his case, faces a maximum of 11 years in prison and , up to ,$ 260, 000 in fines, while Edl faces a maximum of one year in prison and up to$ 10, 000 in fines.
Following the biggest win for the unborn this country has ever seen, the sudden onslaught of legal attacks on pro-lifers is no coincidence. The weaponized DOJ has fully preoccupied itself with pursuing its ideological foes rather than the far-left instigators, causing real harm, despite the pro-life pregnancy centers and churches that were firebombed, vandalized, and set ablaze in response to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision still struggle to receive the justice their attackers deserve.
Any attempt to portray the Biden regime’s treatment of Christians who value the sanctity of life as legitimate is partisan and tone-deaf in comparison to the fact that the federal government has used supplication as its main weapon against those whose biggest tool for change is not Molotov cocktails or spray paint.
The Federalist staff writer and host of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jordan Boyd. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordanian received her bachelor’s degree from Baylor University, where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
