Attacks against pregnancy care centers continue across the United States. The wave of attacks began after a draft of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press. Threats of violence against care centers and pro-life churches immediately spiked with Jane’s Revenge, a particularly radical pro-abortion group, declaring “open season” on pro-life organizations.

An upstate Buffalo center affiliated with pro-life Compass Care that was firebombed last June was vandalized again last week. The CEO of Compass Care, Rev. Jim Harden, called the latest attack “domestic terror” and bemoaned the failure of the Justice Department and FBI to treat the attack seriously. (There have been only two arrests in spite of over 150 attacks.) Rev. Harden said the attacks are “an act of intimidation and a violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) which makes it a federal crime to endanger abortion clinics or pro-life centers.” Rev. Harden declared, “America needs to return to a civilized order.” (Christian Post, March 17, 2023)

Attorney General Merrick Garland has come under heavy criticism from pro-life members of Congress for the wide gap in the treatment of pro-life protesters at abortion clinics and pro-abortion violence at care clinics. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) confronted Garland recently and pressed him on why 34 pro-life activists have been accused of blocking access to abortion clinics and only two pro-abortion extremists have been arrested for actual violence. Garland insisted the FBI takes the violence seriously, but JDFI notes that Garland chairs an emergency task force in the Biden administration, whose goal is to promote abortion.