Advancing Life and Liberty Through Action
Jan 24, 2025
For daring to speak a pro-life message, peaceful Americans have been subject to severe fines and even prison. Yesterday, President Trump pardoned more than 20 people who the Biden administration jailed for peacefully praying, holding a pro-life sign, or sharing their views on abortion. But the problem goes much deeper than a weaponized U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). And today is the March for Life in D.C. Our ministry center is packed.
In the last 31 years, pro-life heroes have been threatened by the FACE Act, the so-called Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. This law has been used by the Clinton, Obama, and Biden DOJs to target pro-life speech on public sidewalks. While silencing pro-life speech, FACE has bolstered pro-abortion activism. And state prosecutors have also used FACE to silence pro-life speech.
Not surprisingly, 97% of the time this law has been used, it was weaponized against pro-life people!
I personally have defended multiple people in court where Democrat prosecutors used FACE to persecute pro-life speech. This includes not only the DOJ but also state Democratic attorneys general.
We must remove FACE from the arsenal of these Democrat prosecutors. Too many people have suffered for too many years. REPEAL FACE NOW!
A new bill has just been introduced in Congress to repeal FACE.
Scott Fitchett Jr. was a prekindergarten teacher who spent his Saturdays peacefully sharing the gospel on public sidewalks throughout New York City, including outside an abortion facility called Choices Women’s Medical Center. He hoped “to persuade women to change their minds about seeking an abortion by communicating the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Scott’s sole activity was to preach and hold a sign (“CHRIST DIED FOR SIN”) while standing at the edge of the sidewalk, and he preached the gospel outside an abortion clinic. For this peaceful act, the New York attorney general sued Scott under FACE. After years of costly litigation, Scott finally won. But the point is FACE was used as a weapon to silence him.
This law has been repeatedly abused, and I had to step into the gap and defend innocent people, guilty only of having an opinion with which the government disagreed.
It is time to repeal the FACE Act under Rep. Chip Roy’s (R-TX) leadership in the House and Sen. Mike Lee’s leadership (R-UT) in the Senate. Now is the time to act.
Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman went after these sidewalk counselors with everything he had. He sought a preliminary injunction to shut down the speech of Christians and pro-lifers. And then to permanently silence them, he proceeded to drag Scott and 12 others into court! Schneiderman used the FACE Act to file these lawsuits.
Schneiderman launched a lawsuit against Scott and the others with a press conference outside the abortion clinic, where he touted his pro-abortion credentials while shockingly berating pro-life Christians who, he said, “run their mouths” with “unlawful, un-American rhetoric.”
Flanked by the millionaire abortion clinic owner Merle Hoffman, AG Schneiderman smugly declared, “We are not a nation where you can choose your point of view,” then proceeded to denigrate Christians’ efforts to counsel women and advocate for the life of the unborn as “horrifying” and “illegal.”
Actually, the freedom to choose our point of view is EXACTLY WHAT AMERICA IS ABOUT! And not to have the government getting in the way of our freedom of thought.
Schneiderman put on the stand the spokesperson for the Communist Party USA, who also worked as the abortion clinic “escort.” This group advocates the violent overthrow of the United States.
During the drawn-out litigation, Schneiderman was forced to resign over multiple sexual assault allegations. Letitia James replaced him and continued the litigation.
James is the SAME New York attorney general who has been going after President Donald Trump.
Liberty Counsel Action is poised to stop this abuse by repealing FACE.
Help us win this critical battle.
Mat Staver, Chairman
John Stemberger, President
Liberty Counsel Action
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Sources:
Mitchell, Elizabeth Troutman. “EXCLUSIVE: Mike Lee to Introduce Bill to Repeal Law Weaponized against Pro-Lifers.” The Daily Signal, January 23, 2025. Dailysignal.com/2025/01/23/exclusive-mike-lee-to-introduce-bill-to-repeal-law-weaponized-against-pro-lifers/.
“Rep. Roy Reintroduces Legislation to Repeal the FACE Act.” Representative Chip Roy, January 21, 2025. Roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-reintroduces-legislation-repeal-face-act.