Biden’s DOJ Targeted Pro-Life Americans. We Now Have the Receipts.

The DOJ just released a damning report on how the Biden administration weaponized federal law against pro-life Americans. Here’s what it means, why it matters, and why this story isn’t just for the pro-life crowd.

 

Let’s start with a number: 700,000.

That’s how many internal records the Justice Department reviewed to produce the report released this week by the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group. Seven hundred thousand documents, and what they found should make every American, regardless of where you stand on abortion, deeply uncomfortable.

 

This isn’t really a story about abortion, it’s actually a story about the government picking winners and losers. It’s a story about federal prosecutors doing favors for political allies. It’s a story about ordinary Americans; people of faith, parents, grandparents, sidewalk counselors being surveilled, ambushed, and hauled into federal court while the people who firebombed pregnancy centers walked away with a slap on the wrist.

 

And now, for the first time in years, it’s a story with a measure of justice attached to it.

 

What Actually Happened

 

The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, the FACE Act, was passed in 1994. On paper, it works both ways: it protects abortion facilities and pro-life pregnancy resource centers from obstruction, vandalism, and threats. A neutral law, protecting everyone equally.

 

That’s not how the Biden DOJ used it.

 

According to the report, federal prosecutors worked hand-in-glove with pro-abortion advocacy organizations, specifically the National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood, and the Feminist Majority Foundation, who compiled dossiers on pro-life activists and handed them to the government. The DOJ then used those dossiers to build cases against those pro-life Americans.

 

Not only did they monitor pro-life Americans for years but they also asked pro-abortion groups about the travel habits and First Amendment activities of pro-life individuals. Essentially, they let outside ideological groups drive the federal enforcement agenda.

 

Read that again: private political organizations were helping direct the prosecutorial machinery of the United States government against American citizens exercising their constitutional rights!

 

That’s not enforcement of the law. That’s collusion.

 

The Conduct Was Worse Than You Think

 

The report doesn’t just document bias in who got prosecuted. It documents misconduct in how those prosecutions were carried out.

 

Prosecutors withheld evidence that defendants needed to mount their defense. They screened potential jurors based on religious belief, trying to keep committed people of faith off juries in cases involving, of all things, people of faith. Instead of allowing defendants to self-surrender (standard practice), they authorized aggressive early-morning raids.

 

And then there’s this: the lead prosecutor on multiple FACE Act cases served as a reference for the National Abortion Federation’s application for a private grant. The DOJ found no record that this attorney ever sought ethics approval for having a personal stake in the financial outcomes of an organization actively involved in cases before his office.

 

There’s a term for that; it’s called a conflict of interest, and in any other context, it ends careers.

 

The Sentencing Gap Is Staggering

 

Here’s the number that should stop us in our tracks: the Biden DOJ sought an average sentence of 26.8 months for pro-life defendants under the FACE Act. For pro-abortion defendants charged under the same law, many of whom committed actual acts of vandalism and violence against pregnancy centers? The average sentence sought was 12.3 months.

 

That’s more than double for the same law being applied to opposite sides.

 

Pregnancy resource centers were attacked, firebombed, spray-painted, and vandalized in the years following the Dobbs decision which tossed Roe v. Wade into the dustbin of history. The DOJ’s response, per this report, was to downplay and ignore those cases whilst aggressively pursuing every available tool against pro-life activists, some of whom were guilty of nothing more than praying on a public sidewalk.

 

This is what a two-tiered justice system looks like. And now it’s a documented, reviewed, 700,000-record reality.

 

What’s Been Done About It

 

Here’s the part of the story that actually offers some hope.

 

President Trump issued full and unconditional pardons to many of the pro-life Christians targeted under these prosecutions. The DOJ has since dismissed (with prejudice, meaning they can’t be refiled) three civil lawsuits that were still pending against pro-life activists, civil cases have been settled and personnel action has been taken against those responsible.

 

And going forward, DOJ prosecutors have been directed that abortion-related FACE Act actions may only be brought in extraordinary circumstances or cases with significant aggravating factors. The era of using federal law as a political weapon against Americans who hold pro-life convictions is, at least for now, over.

 

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche put it plainly: “This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice.”

 

Why This Matters to Every American

 

Here’s what I want to leave you with, and I mean this especially for those of you who are exhausted by political news, who just want to raise your kids and live your lives and not think about Washington.

 

The principle at stake in this story has everything to do with whether the federal government can decide that one group of Americans gets the full protection of the law whilst another group gets the full weight of the law, based purely on their beliefs.

 

If the answer to that question is yes, then none of us are safe. Not conservatives, not leftists, no one.

 

The power being described in this report; to surveil citizens, cultivate informants from allied organizations, manipulate jury selection, withhold evidence, and seek wildly disproportionate sentences doesn’t belong to any ideology permanently, but to whoever is in power.

 

That’s exactly why the restoration of equal justice isn’t a conservative win or a pro-life win. It’s an American win and it’s worth saying so out loud.

 

The full DOJ Weaponization Working Group report is available to the public. Acting AG Blanche approved a limited waiver of privileged information so Americans can review the underlying materials themselves. Read it. Share it. This is your government, and you deserve to know what was done in your name.

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