The unholy abortion crusade by the Biden administration‘s Department of Justice continued Tuesday, as six pro-life activists were convicted on federal charges for praying at an abortion clinic.
The DOJ had charged Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Coleman Boyd, Paul Vaughn, and Dennis Green with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) and “conspiracy against rights” for praying and singing outside the entrance of an abortion clinic in Nashville, Tennessee. The government argued that they had blocked access to the clinic. On Tuesday, a jury agreed.
The six defendants now all face up to a decade in prison, all because they prayed and sang hymns at the entrance of a clinic that efficiently murders babies with surgical precision under the cover of medical care.
Not a single person in that video has posed a safety threat to anyone who wishes to enter the abortion clinic. But they now face the grim prospect of spending the next decade in a federal penitentiary.
The prosecution is, unfortunately, the latest example of the Department of Justice’s vile Gestapo-like effort to stamp out any opposition to abortion over the past two years. Since the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, the DOJ has persecuted the pro-life movement with the eagerness of religious zealots.
At the same time, the Department of Justice has completely ignored the epidemic of terrorist attacks against hundreds of pro-life pregnancy centers and churches that have emerged over the past few years. Violent attacks against the pro-life movement are tolerated, while peaceful protests against the cruel evil of abortion are met by the full force of the law.
In January 2023, a federal jury in Philadelphia acquitted pro-life activist Mark Houck of FACE Act charges that stemmed from an incident where an abortion clinic volunteer sneered and taunted his son while he was praying outside the clinic. In June, the Rev. Fidelis Moscinski, a Catholic priest, was sentenced to six months in prison for chaining himself to the entrance of an abortion clinic.
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But the convictions Tuesday bring the DOJ’s weaponized lawfare to a new level. With its latest criminalization of prayer and song, the Biden administration is engaging in overt religious persecution. In an effort to ensure that abortion is widely practiced and accessed, the administration is expending significant resources to lock up those who oppose it. It’s a totalitarian act that would make Joseph Stalin blush.
If Republicans in Congress were serious about addressing this abusive and fascistic use of law enforcement against peaceful protesters, they would refuse to fund the Department of Justice until the FACE Act is repealed and this shameful criminalization of dissent is brought to its end. Instead, they’re bickering over giving tax deductions to wealthy families in Democratic-run states.