Hundreds of Churches and Pregnancy Centers Have Been Attacked, But Biden is Putting Pro-Life Americans in Prison

When Nellie Gray founded the March for Life in 1974, she envisioned a large demonstration against the unjust and tragic decision of Roe v. Wade last year was enough to stop legal abortion in the US

History has shown that his optimism was unfounded, but the bad jurisprudence imposed on our country by seven justices was finally repealed in 2022.

However, March continues, as it should.

The current occupant of the White House has said his first priority if re-elected is to reinstate Roe. Our vice president is about to embark on a nationwide tour to talk about how good it would be for all Americans to have more murders of young children. These are reasons enough to march.

But there’s another goal that will draw pro-lifers to DC next week for March 19: The federal government, its agencies, and its processes weaponized, in true Leninist fashion, against itself citizens. (“Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.”)

And pro-life people have become a special target. Consider these recent examples.

• Mark Houck had a minor skirmish with a volunteer outside a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood in 2021. Local police did not press charges, but a year later, Biden’s Justice Department did. At 6:45 a.m. on September 23, 2022, the FBI showed up in full force outside Houck’s rural Pennsylvania home. Houck is like this described the scene in the Catholic News Agency:
  “… At least 10, 15 marked and unmarked units right in front of me. Surrounding the side of my house, I had 100 yards down the street, cars lined up to the street, long guns pointed at me, heavy armored vests, ballistic helmets, ballistic shields, a battering ram.” At least five federal agents on his porch with “M-16s pointed at me and now my husband as he walked through the open door.”Click here to sign up for pro-life news alerts from LifeNews.comHouck was charged with violating the 1994 FACE Act – Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances – and faces 11 years in prison. But he’s back on the sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood after being acquitted at trial in January 2023. He’s also suing the federal government, and is running for Congress. But his arrest so close to the midterm elections was clearly meant to send a message to Biden’s pro-abortion supporters that pro-lifers will no longer be tolerated.
• In three federal trials last year, nine pro-life activists were convicted of violating the FACE Act by illegally blocking an abortion business in Washington, DC in October 2020. All nine have been in jail since their were convicted and, on additional claims that they were part of a conspiracy, face up to 11 years in prison and $350,000 in fines when sentenced at a yet-to-be-announced date. The oldest inmate is 75-year-old Paulette Harlow of Massachusetts.
  The Justice Department’s press release announcing the guilty verdicts for the first five defendants outlined how 14 federal agencies is involved in bringing these peaceful pro-lifers to justice.
  The irony, of course, is that the only violence committed that day was against unborn children killed by abortion.

Since the release of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe in May 2022, more than 200 pro-life organizations and offices have been vandalized but few arrests have been made. Meanwhile, a young woman in Wyoming convicted of setting fire to an under-construction abortion business in Casper is serving five years in prison and must pay $300,000 while we await sentencing for a Wisconsin man who set fire to a building that housed in pro-life. Family Action in Wisconsin. I’m willing to bet money that his prison sentence will be more lenient.

We can be sure that more pro-lifers will be targeted if abortion-extremist-in-chief Joe Biden is returned to the White House so we have only one option: We must vote him out of office, and oust everyone else pro-abortion politician. at every level of government.
Until then, we march, for life and for freedom. A government that opposes half of its people is not what our Founders envisioned.

On Friday, January 19th, the morning of the annual March for Life in Washington, I will have the privilege of presenting Mark Houck with the National Pro-Life Recognition Award at National Prayer at Constitution Hall. Another honoree, Sister Deirdre Byrne, POSC, will accept the award on behalf of nine rescuers currently incarcerated. All are invited.

LifeNews.com Note: Frank Pavone is the national director for Priests for Life.