WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Monday that it will not tolerate violence against anyone who is trying to obtain an abortion in Texas as federal officials explore options to challenge a new state law that bans most abortions.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department would “protect those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services” under a federal law known as the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
Garland said in a statement that federal prosecutors are still urgently exploring options to challenge the Texas law. He said the Justice Department would enforce the federal law “in order to protect the constitutional rights of women and other persons, including access to an abortion.”
The federal law, commonly known as the FACE Act, prohibits physically obstructing or using the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services. The law also prohibits damaging property at abortion clinics and other reproductive health centers.
The new Texas law prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks — before some women know they’re pregnant. Courts have blocked other states from imposing similar restrictions, but Texas’ law differs significantly because it leaves enforcement up to private citizens through lawsuits instead of criminal prosecutors.
Justice Department officials have also been in contact with U.S. attorneys in Texas and the FBI field offices in the state to discuss enforcing the federal provisions.
“The department will provide support from federal law enforcement when an abortion clinic or reproductive health center is under attack,” Garland said. “We will not tolerate violence against those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services, physical obstruction or property damage in violation of the FACE Act.”
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merrick baby killer garland.
Many say “we are lucky to have avoided getting him on the scotus’, BUT TO ME< he is doing MORE DAMAGE AS AG than as one of NINE judges in the scotus…
“The Justice Department said Monday that it will not tolerate violence against anyone who is trying to obtain an abortion in Texas as federal officials explore options to challenge a new state law that bans most abortions.” No violence against an adult, but who was advocating violence anyway? News to me. However, violence against the unborn will continue as we advocate for the snuffing out of lives that we deem to be a nuisance or inconvenient.
“He said the Justice Department would enforce the federal law “in order to protect the constitutional rights of women and other persons, including access to an abortion.” It is interesting how you people pick and choose the constitutional rights you wish to defend as opposed to those you choose to ignore. Does immigration law come to mind? You flaunt every law on the books regarding illegal immigration to the detriment of the rights of the American people—why aren’t you concerned about that?
It is crystal clear, Garland, why your appointment was sidelined when Obama was in office.
THe ones NEEDING to get violence against them, ARE THE DEMON LOVING DOCTORS who perform these satanic rituals known as abortions!
This will be interesting to see how DOJ will argue circumventing the Texas law which the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of! The Texas law is in no way obstructing or threatening or damaging property, it is only setting legal time frame for the procedure. Once again there no physical attack threatened by the law, only legal procedures!
PITY the scotus has NO POWER to actually PUNISH the dept of NO JUSTICE!
Nowhere in the Constitution is there any “right” to abortion! Killing babies is not protected by the Constitution. People get pulled into arguments all the time that can’t exist in the real world, because of ignorance! The demonics and piglosi’s of the world always spew about Constitutional rights that have never been in the Constitution. We need (me too) to internalize all the rights and truths in the Constitution till we can quote it in our sleep … chapter and verse … and then take the fight to these true deplorables and run them completely out into extinction from our school boards, city and state governments!
Marxist Communist DemocRATS TRULY are EVIL!!!
Abortion clinics are far worse mass murderers than the Mafia (or the Nazis or most other dictatorships) but the corrupt Biden administration has obviously been bought off by them and received “protection money” as well to fight the few honest state officials that remain.
The time is very short for the workers of evil to repent before the Last Day and the judgment of God falls upon them with eternal punishment.