Pro-Life Centers Attacked – Where is DOJ?

One year ago, a Planned Parenthood center in Michigan was attacked. Within four days, an arrest was made. Yet between the June 24, 2022, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision, overturning Roe v. Wade, and late July, there were 92 attacks on pro-life centers (32 on churches) and no arrests. Why?

In an age when political leaders – at the White House, Justice, and FBI – push anti-conservative bias with impunity, refusing to protect conservative justices and ransacking a political opponent’s and former president’s home, many Americans wonder if Lady Liberty is blind.

Now we find evidence of more unequal treatment. Attacks on pro-abortion centers produce fast arrests. By contrast, attacks on pro-life centers produce little. The contrast is stark.

Big picture, political violence of all kinds is wrong – no matter who pursues it – in a constitutional republic. But when political violence occurs, it must be treated with universal condemnation – not allowed on the left, while condemned on the right.

Arrests are frequent, consistent, and numerous when an abortion provider is attacked, yet unresolved attacks are the rule when pro-life centers the victim. To date, 19 State’s Attorney Generals have asked the Justice Department (DOJ) to act, little to show for their appeal.

Nor are attacks on pro-life centers minor. Churches have been invaded and defaced, words like “abort the church” and “if abortions aren’t safe, neither are you” let behind. A group called “Jane’s Revenge” reportedly firebombs and vandalizes pro-life centers.

The kicker is – despite congressional Republicans seeking action, public outcries, concerns for safety of those offering pro-life advice – DOJ seems to be doing little.

Here is the rub. Sometimes perception is reality or can become reality. Perception is that DOJ does not care about political violence against pro-life centers, only against pro-abortion groups.

More worrisome, those within the Biden/Harris/Garland DOJ are reinforcing this perception. Thus, a civil rights division chief disparages violence against pro-life groups, arguing these groups were “harmful” and “predatory,” their missions and violence unimportant or “fake.”

Not prosecuting political violence against pro-life groups is bad enough. Disparaging those who become victims of leftist violence, excusing it based on political bias, is the height of audacity.

A White House that boldly ignores a plea by 120 members of Congress to address violence against pro-life centers – is hardly unbiased, Lady Liberty for now not blind.

Where does this lead? Where does it leave pro-life citizens? How many Americans are being affected by DOJ’s pro-abortion, anti-conservative bias? And what can be done about it?

Raw truth: As of this summer, 55 percent of Americans are “pro-life,” according to Gallop. The Dobbs decision is encouraging those formerly afraid, now to speak up. In the process, we are rediscovering our nation’s conscience, saving unborn children, preserving families.

But to be clear: The battle is not over, rather just beginning. “Chilling” – intentional intimidation of pro-life Americans – is occurring. Any White House or DOJ that enforces laws unequally against political violence – allowing anti-conservative violence to proliferate – encourages it. 

Americans have a Supreme Court handing down sound decisions. We are fortunate there. Now, we need a DOJ equal to the task of enforcing laws equally. As the 5^th and 14^th Amendments say, government cannot “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

So, attention Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris, Mr. Garland, and pro-abortion Democrats: That guarantee includes equal protection for those who respect the unborn, choose life, and are conservative.