FACE Repeal Act advances but still needs support in Congress
June 12, 2025
Dear Friends,
When I visited Mother Teresa - now St. Teresa - in Calcutta in 1994, I told her about a law recently signed by then-President Clinton to restrict the right of pro-life Americans to protest legal child killing outside abortion businesses and to intervene to save lives and provide alternatives to abortion.
She told me that if a law like that existed in India, she would have been thrown in jail many times, because she went to the places where abortions occurred and pulled the women away by the arm.
If a law would have put St. Teresa in jail, it probably should not be a law!
And now we have an opportunity to relegate this bad law to the dustbin of flawed legislation.
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 13-10 to advance H.R. 589, the FACE Act Repeal Act of 2025. The bill was introduced in the House by Texas Rep. Chip Roy, who was motivated by the arrests and convictions of two dozen pro-lifers during the Biden administration.
When FACE was initially enacted, pro-life legislators made sure it also said that people could not block or attack pregnancy centers and Churches. But Congressman Roy noted before the recent vote that 92% of the FACE Act prosecutions from 2021 to 2024 were brought against pro-life activists, while just 8% of cases targeted abortion advocates, despite more than 200 attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and offices.
So it’s nonsense when the other side says, “Oh, we just want to prevent violence.” First of all, there are already state and federal laws aimed at preventing violence. And secondly, this FACE law is obviously being used disproportionately against peaceful pro-life activists.
President Trump pardoned all of the pro-lifers as one of his first orders of business in January and he has also directed federal prosecutors to limit enforcement of the law, calling Biden’s efforts against pro-lifers "the prototypical example" of weaponization of the federal government.
Now it’s time to finally get rid of FACE, restore freedom to pro-lifers and stop giving special privileges to those who murder children for a living.
Utah Sen. Mike Lee introduced a companion bill in the Senate to repeal FACE, but there has been no movement in that chamber yet. That’s why it’s vitally important that this bill is approved by the House.
Would you consider calling the lawmakers who represent you in the House - even if you have already done so! - to urge them to support this vitally important repeal effort?
As soon as you can, please call the office of your House member - Republican or Democrat - to express your support for the repeal bill and your hope that they will support it as well.
When you click on this link, you’ll be letting us know that you will be in touch with your House member. Thank you in advance for your readiness to take part in this project. I’m confident it will have a tremendous impact!
And please share this email with anyone you think may be interested!
Regards,
Prolife Leader Frank Pavone
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