What Will Trump-Vance Administration Do for Pro-Life Clinics?

Employees at pro-life pregnancy resource centers are hoping for protection from the Trump-Vance administration that they did not receive from the Biden-Harris administration. In an article published at The Daily Signal, Elizabeth (Troutman) Mitchell wrote of the double standard of protection given to the pro-life pregnancy resource centers as compared to abortion clinics. 

At least 95 pregnancy resource centers and pro-life groups have been attacked and vandalized since the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked in early May 2022, according to CatholicVote’s tracker. The DOJ has not investigated the majority of the attacks….

Pro-life lawyers and directors of pregnancy resource centers weighed in on how the Trump administration can protect them after four years of what they regard as mistreatment under the Biden-Harris administration.

President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Justice can bring the hammer of justice down on vandals and domestic terrorists who have threatened and vandalized pregnancy centers, yet faced no repercussions….

The pro-life pregnancy resource centers are hoping that soon-to-be President Trump will cancel the changes that President Joe Biden made to Title X – “a federal program that focuses on providing family planning and related preventative services to low-income Americans at little or no cost to them.”

The centers want the Trump administration to “repeal or reevaluate the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994” [FACE Act] because it “has been weaponized against pro-lifers over the past four years.”

The centers want Trump to “pardon, or commute the sentences of, the pro-lifers who have been convicted for praying outside abortion clinics.” “More than 10 pro-lifers have been convicted under the FACE Act for peacefully protesting outside abortion clinics during the Biden-Harris administration. One of these pro-life activists is 89-year-old Eva Edl, who survived a World War II-era death camp before escaping to the United States.”

The FACE Act prohibits use of force, obstruction, or property damage intended to interfere with “reproductive health care services.” Though it theoretically protects houses of worship and pro-life pregnancy resource centers as well as abortion clinics, the Biden administration’s Justice Department has largely used the FACE Act to prosecute pro-life activists like Edl.