The Trump Justice Department’s nearly 900-page Weaponization Working Group report has revealed that the Biden administration relied on surveillance dossiers compiled by pro-abortion organizations — including personal photographs of pro-life activists’ minor children — to identify and prosecute targets under the FACE Act.
The report documents that the National Abortion Federation compiled detailed law enforcement resource guides for the Biden DOJ’s task force. These dossiers included “birthdates, addresses, contact information, physical descriptions and photographs, names of family and close associates (including photographs of minor children), affiliated groups, history of pro-life and faith-based activities, and drivers’ license numbers.” Information about prior protests in these dossiers “ultimately were the basis for the Biden DOJ’s FACE Act charges.”
Emails show a top DOJ official referring to an abortion activist as an “MVP” for flagging pro-life protests, and reveal officials seeking to track the travel plans of pro-life activists not yet charged with any crime. The Biden DOJ also helped the NAF secure a private grant — with lead FACE Act prosecutors serving as references on the application — with no ethics approval on record.
The Biden DOJ pursued average sentences of 26.8 months for pro-life defendants, compared to 12.3 months for pro-abortion defendants. Meanwhile the task force “largely ignored attacks on pro-life pregnancy resource centers, only charging five people for vandalism” despite a wave of post-Dobbs violence against churches and pregnancy centers.
Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance called the conduct “unconscionable,” stating: “No American should be subjected to the kind of partisan, politically motivated attacks pro-lifers have had to face — prosecution and imprisonment — for their freedom of speech.”
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