As more than a dozen pro-lifers have been charged with violating the Federal Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, with most receiving prison sentences, the Department of Justice is filing civil lawsuits against two pro-life groups and seven individuals, including Dr. Monica Miller of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society.
"This is for Red Rose Rescues that we did in Ohio back in June of 2021," she tells AFN. "[In] one of the cases, the charges were dismissed. So, here we are with the DOJ trying to go after Red Rose Rescue, and I think it's very important for people to know that Red Rose Rescue does not violate FACE."
The FACE Act prohibits "intentionally injuring, intimidating, or interfering with, or attempting to injure, intimidate, or interfere, any person by force, threat of force, or physical obstruction" to prevent access to "reproductive health services" and/or the exercise of "the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship."
It also prohibits "intentionally damaging or destroying the property of a facility, or attempting to do so, because such facility provides reproductive health services, or intentionally damaging or destroying the property of a place of religious worship."
In a Red Rose Rescue, however, no participant blocks or otherwise obstructs people from entering or exiting an abortion clinic. Pro-lifers simply enter a clinic and hand the mothers waiting for abortions a red rose and information about where they can get help to save their babies.
So why is the Department of Justice suing?
"I think that it's just we've got a crazy administration that's rabidly pro-abortion and that is going after everything that they can to shut down peaceful intervention to prevent the killing of the unborn," Dr. Miller submits. "We're going to fight it."
Meanwhile, online censors continue to show whose side they are on. Louisiana Right to Life spokeswoman Sarah Zagorski says YouTube is suppressing the truth.
"We uploaded a video exposing the abortion pill crisis in Louisiana," she details. "Five different companies … were selling abortion pills to minors well past gestational limits set by even the FDA, which is 10 weeks. They took down our video and actually cancelled our entire channel."
Her organization was told the action was taken because the video relayed "harmful and dangerous information."
The truth, Zagorski says, is "it's the abortion pills that are harmful and dangerous." And since "they have videos up of other groups promoting the abortion pills," she says YouTube is violating its own policy.
"It was completely ludicrous, their complaining we were the ones that were unsafe in this situation," the pro-lifer contends.
YouTube did end up restoring Louisiana Right to Life's channel, but the factual video in question is still missing in action.
