You hear more people use the word weaponize... what does it mean?
Yup... Trump and Company wants to make it okay to fire bomb reproductive health care clinics!
By Valerie RichardsonThe Washington TimesJune 10, 2025The House Judiciary Committee passed legislation Tuesday to repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law wielded by the Biden administration to prosecute more than 30 pro-life activists, in some cases sending them to jail.The panel voted 13-10 to advance H.R. 589, the bill introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, Texas Republican, after a surge in the number of prosecutions under the FACE Act, which criminalizes protests that obstruct access to abortion clinics as well as pro-life pregnancy centers.Even so, Mr. Roy said 92% of the FACE Act prosecutions from 2021 to 2024 were brought against pro-life activists protesting at abortion clinics. Just 8% of cases targeted pro-choice agitators, despite nearly 100 attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and offices after May 2022.
WOW! 92%! That is amazing!
Another right-leaning media Live Action reported,
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- The FACE Act Repeal Act of 2025, advanced by the committee, now goes to the House for a full vote.
- Though introduced under the Clinton Administration, prosecutions against pro-lifers under FACE ramped up in 2022 under the Biden-Harris DOJ when it appeared the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade.
- Multiple pro-lifers were imprisoned for peaceful protests at abortion businesses, though some had occurred years before and were not prosecuted locally.
- After President Trump pardoned 23 imprisoned pro-lifers, he said FACE Act prosecutions should only be brought in extreme cases.
- The repeal of the FACE Act will guarantee that pro-lifers won’t “face felony convictions for peaceful acts such as sidewalk counseling or singing hymns,” says Rep. Chip Roy.
Whoa! Peaceful protests! For "sidewalk counseling"! How can that be?
Yes, they were peaceful but they blocked access to the clinic! Ops... minor point.
I was "sidewalk counseled" I had a meeting at Planned Parenthood on a Saturday morning where the protesters were out picketing. One slowly walked across the entrance so I had to stop (If they stopped walking they would have been arrested for blocking traffic. Hence the arrests at "peaceful protests."). While I was stopped I was "sidewalk counseled" with them screaming "Murder!" "Sinner!" "You're going to hell!" "You are taking an innocent life"
Then they noticed I was trans and the look on their faces were priceless! It was like I turned into a vampire right in front of them. I half expected them to hold up their little crosses to force me back.
The Times went on to write...
“It is time to end the weaponization of the FACE Act against peaceful, First Amendment protected speech,” he said.
You know the hate that they yelled at me was protected speech and that was way they were not arrested. If they stopped me from entering it would be a crime and that is exactly what they want to do, prevent you from entering the clinic. The left leaning HuffPost wrote,
Anti-abortion violence dropped by 30% when the FACE Act was first signed into law. The law is arguably now more important than ever, since federal abortion protections fell in 2022 and violence against providers and clinics have skyrocketed. The year the Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade, there was a 538% increase in people obstructing clinic entrances, a 913% increase in stalking of clinic staff and a 133% increase in bomb threats, according to a National Abortion Federation report.
Oh hey... minor point! They aren't arresting any pro-abortion people so it must be biased.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) introduced the FACE Act Repeal Act of 2025 earlier this year, claiming that President Joe Biden’s administration weaponized the law to prosecute anti-abortion activists. The repeal is part of a yearslong push by the GOP to stoke a false narrative that Democrats are waging a war against the anti-abortion religious right. Republican support for the bill comes less than a month after a California fertility clinic was bombed and one person died.
When I was attending meetings at She Leads Justice (formerly known as Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund) in 2011 there was a "crisis pregnancy centers" nearby that was run by a Christian group... it was actually an anti-abortion center and they delayed women until they could not get a legal abortion. As a result of these deceptive practices Connecticut passed a law...
In 2021, Governor Lamont signed a law (Public Act 21-17) that bars limited services pregnancy centers or “crisis pregnancy centers” from using:
- False, misleading, or deceptive language about the services they provide
- Language about offering services that the center has no intention of providing
And...In May 2022, Governor Lamont signed Public Act 22-19, a first-in-the-nation law that provides important protections for medical providers and patients seeking abortion care in Connecticut.This law also:
- Allows more types of practitioners to perform certain abortion-related care: Advanced practice clinicians, registered nurses (APRNs), nurse-midwives, and physician assistants (PAs) can now receive training to provide aspiration abortion care.
- Provides certain legal protections from lawsuits and harassment for Connecticut abortion providers and anyone traveling to Connecticut for abortion care.
- Provides new protections against disclosing medical information about abortions without the patient's consent
- Forbids Connecticut's public officials from using any public resources to assist in prosecuting or civilly suing someone for performing or receiving abortion services that are legal in Connecticut
You know that's the difference between Republican states and Democratic states.
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