The Biden administration has already put a dozen pro-life Americans in prison for protesting abortion, but that’s apparently not enough for Biden and the radical abortion activists in his administration.
The Justice Department on Monday filed suit against two pro-life groups and several pro-life advocates on Monday by falsely claiming their abortion protests are intimidating and somehow violate the bogus FACE law that limits the free speech rights of pro-life Americans. Biden’s cronies accuse them of “intimidating” abortion customers at two abortion businesses in Ohio.
Biden officials claim the two groups, Citizens for a Pro-Life Society and Red Rose Rescue, along with seven pro-life Americans, violated the FACE law. After putting a dozen pro-life Americans in prison on bogus charges, these new charges seek tens of thousands of dollars in “fines” for violating the law that infringes on pro-life free speech.
The Justice Department is seeking financial damages, including $20,516 for first violations and $30,868 for subsequent offenses as well as injunctive relief as provided by the FACE Act.
A DOJ press release does not mention criminal charges, but nothing prevents Biden officials from bringing them.
Monica Miller, who heads the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society group, denied any wrongdoing and told LifeNews that she is one of the people named in the legal charges the Biden administration is bringing. She indicated Father Fidelis Moscinski, a Catholic priest, is also charged along with Laura Gies, Clara McDonald, Jay Smith, Audrey Whipple and Lauren Handy, who is already in federal prison based on the first round of disputed FACE charges.
Miller said her pro-life activities – which include protests outside abortion centers as well as handing women inside abortion centers red roses with information about abortion alternatives, do not violate the FACE law because they do not threaten anyone nor do they block “access” to abortion
Miller said they “never block anything or anyone–and if the Department of Justice is coming after us for our peaceful–life-saving efforts it’s because they will simply play fast and loose with the FACE language having to do with ‘physical obstruction’ that prevents ‘freedom of movement.’”
She indicated that there have been 37 abortion protests and no one in any of the protests has been charged with anything until now.
As a result of the pro-life activities, five babies were saved from abortions.
“We have NEVER been charged with FACE, and indeed, the red rose rescue we did at the Planned Parenthood in Bedford Heights, June 5, 2021, one of the two that involves this DOJ accusation, — all charges were dropped,” Miller indicated. “We have every confidence that through our great attorneys we will prevail over this bogus attempt by the weaponized JOJ to drag even RRR under its persecution of those who seek to defend the unborn from violence.”
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