The FBI’s recent flurry of activity against pro-life activists follows a little-noticed action by the Justice Department in July, creating a task force to defend abortion.
The DOJ’s Reproductive Rights Task Force was announced on July 12 with the stated goal of “protect[ing] access to reproductive health care,” which means abortion.
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, a former ACLU lawyer, heads the task force, which, according to the DOJ, includes representatives of the “Department’s Civil Division, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney community, Office of the Solicitor General,” and other offices at the DOJ. Justice also assigned dedicated staff to this task force.
Along with lobbying Congress to create a federal right to abortion, the task force’s work included centralizing “information about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act,” the federal law used to prosecute at least a dozen pro-life activists in recent weeks.
Mark Houck was arrested in September for a 2021 scuffle with a pro-abortion activist in Philadelphia. The activist had brought charges against Houck in state and municipal court in 2021, but those charges were reportedly dropped.
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