{"id":317498,"date":"2024-08-20T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T22:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=317498"},"modified":"2024-08-20T19:17:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T00:17:31","slug":"congressman-fbi-director-investigating-pro-abortion-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/congressman-fbi-director-investigating-pro-abortion-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman tells FBI director to prove agency is actually investigating pro-abortion violence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congressman Chip Roy, chairman of the subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, has sent a letter<\/a> to FBI Director Christopher Wray Director, asking him to explain the disparities between the treatment of pro-life and pro-abortion protesters since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em>\u00a0overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>. Roy gave Wray a deadline of 5:00 p.m. on September 2, 2024.<\/p>\n

In November 2022, Wray testified<\/a> before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, saying that about 70% of the abortion-related violence and threats carried out after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em> in June of that year were perpetrated by abortion advocates against<\/strong> pro-life groups. Despite this, 97% of the prosecutions<\/a> under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act have been of pro-life activists.<\/p>\n

According to The Daily Signal<\/a>, Roy told Wray on Monday that since January 2021, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has brought 22 FACE Act violation charges against pro-lifers in 22 cases \u2014 compared to charging pro-abortion activists in just two<\/strong><\/em> cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis data is particularly troubling in light of the fact that there have been at least 90 individual cases of attacks on pro-life organizations and pregnancy resource centers since the May 2022 leak of the Supreme Court\u2019s draft opinion for the Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization case,\u201d Roy wrote, adding, “The fact that the Department\u2019s own data shows that a mere 8 percent of\u00a0FACE Act cases filed<\/a>\u00a0by the Biden-Harris administration are against agitators at pregnancy resource centers would seem to belie your assertion that a majority of \u2018abortion-related violent extremism investigations have focused on violence against pro-life facilities\u2019 following the\u00a0Dobbs<\/em> decision.”<\/p>\n