{"id":325536,"date":"2025-01-31T08:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=325536"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:58:44","slug":"trump-doj-drops-lawsuit-pro-life-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-doj-drops-lawsuit-pro-life-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump DOJ drops lawsuit against pro-life rescue groups"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is dropping<\/a> a Biden-era lawsuit against two pro-life groups that had been accused of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act at two abortion facilities.<\/p>\n

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the DOJ filed a complaint<\/a> alleging that Citizens for a Pro-Life Society along with Red Rose Rescue and other pro-life individuals violated the FACE Act on June 4 and 5 of 2021. The lawsuit claimed that the pro-life activists \u2014 Laura Gies, Lauren Handy, Clara McDonald, Monica Miller, Christopher Moscinski, Jay Smith, and Audrey Whipple \u2014 blocked entrances to both Northeast Ohio Women’s Center in Cuyahoga Falls and Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio’s Bedford Heights Surgery Center. Those involved with the pro-life efforts dispute this claim.<\/p>\n

Under the Trump administration, that lawsuit will be dropped.<\/p>\n

The same month that the activism took place, the remains of an aborted baby were found<\/a> in a dumpster outside one of the locations \u2014 the Northeast Ohio Women’s Center. The baby was estimated to have been about 17 weeks at the time of the abortion and his limbs had been torn apart, indicating the use of the D&E (dilation and evacuation) dismemberment abortion procedure.<\/p>\n