{"id":10,"date":"2025-06-10T23:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=10"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:49:52","slug":"house-committee-passes-bill-to-repeal-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"House Committee Passes Bill to Repeal FACE!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>This is great news but hard to see how it will get 60 votes in the Senate. Or even get out of the House. But still, YAY, YAY, YAY!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hit the link for the whole story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2025\/06\/10\/house-committee-passes-bill-to-repeal-law-biden-used-to-put-pro-life-grandmas-in-prison\/\">The House Judiciary Committee voted 13-10 on June 10, 2025, to advance a bill to repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. That\u2019s the 1994 law Joe Biden\u2019s administration used to put pro-life Americans in prison for peacefully protesting abortion.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6a00d8341cc5fb53ef02e860ec5a3d200b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1087\" title=\"Joan andrews unafraid\" srcset=\"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6a00d8341cc5fb53ef02e860ec5a3d200b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6a00d8341cc5fb53ef02e860ec5a3d200b-500wi-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FACE law was weaponized by the Biden administration to target and imprison peaceful pro-life activists, including elderly women. The legislation, led by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, aims to prevent future administrations from using the law to punish pro-lifers for exercising free speech and religious freedoms outside abortion clinics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FACE Act, signed by President Bill Clinton, prohibits the use of force, threats, or physical obstruction to interfere with abortion businesses and pro-life pregnancy centers. However, pro-life groups argue it has been disproportionately enforced against their advocates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data cited by Roy\u2019s office shows that 97% of FACE Act prosecutions from 1994 to 2024 targeted pro-life activists, including cases against elderly women like 89-year-old Eva Edl, a wheelchair-bound Soviet concentration camp survivor convicted for praying and singing hymns outside a Michigan abortion clinic in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis vote is a victory for the unborn and for the free speech of Americans who stand for life,\u201d said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life Action, which has championed the repeal effort. \u201cThe FACE Act was twisted into a tool to jail grandmas and peaceful protesters while ignoring attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers. It\u2019s time to end this injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is great news but hard to see how it will get 60 votes in the Senate. Or even get out of the House. But still, YAY, YAY, YAY!! 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