Finally Some Accountability

As we and others have documented, scores of churches and pro-life organizations have been attacked and vandalized since Justice Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked last May to the left-wing media. Months passed without anyone being held accountable.

Well, the Department of Justice announced yesterday that it has finally indicted two pro-abortion extremists for attacking three pregnancy resource centers in Florida. Not surprisingly, the two pro-abortion extremists appear to have connections to the violent neo-Marxist group Antifa.

The two suspects are facing charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance or FACE Act for “using threats of force to intimidate and interfere with the employees of a reproductive health services facility.”

Speaking of the FACE Act, the trial of pro-life activist Mark Houck begins today. Houck is being charged under the FACE Act because he got into a confrontation with an obnoxious abortion clinic escort who threatened Houck’s son while they were outside an abortion clinic.

Local officials rightly refused to prosecute Houck, because the FACE Act was never intended to apply to “escorts” outside the clinics. Senators were very clear during the debate on the FACE Act that it “allows legal relief only to clinic patients and personnel,” and that “escorts” did not qualify as “personnel.”

The case against Houck should be dismissed and I pray it will be. But the pro-abortion Biden Administration is determined to persecute pro-life activists.