Alright, this is one of those claims that sounds explosive right out of the gate, but you’ve got to separate what’s actually documented from how it’s being framed.
Here’s what’s being pointed to: a Justice Department report examining enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act—FACE Act, for short. That law, going back to 1994, was designed to prevent people from being blocked, threatened, or harmed when trying to access abortion clinics.
And yes, it also includes protections for places of worship and pro-life pregnancy centers. That part is real and often gets overlooked in the broader debate.
Now, the big claim here is “collusion” between the Biden administration and pro-abortion groups to track and prosecute pro-life activists. That’s a serious accusation—but it’s not something established as a confirmed finding in a straightforward way.
What has been documented is that the DOJ brought a number of FACE Act cases in recent years, many of them involving protests or blockades at abortion facilities. Critics argue that enforcement has been uneven, focusing more heavily on pro-life activists than on attacks against churches or pregnancy centers.
That’s where figures like Carrie Severino come in, pointing out that the law was originally structured to be balanced, at least on paper. The argument from that side is that the application of the law has drifted—less about equal protection, more about selective enforcement.
But “collusion” implies coordination—intentional cooperation to target a specific group—and that’s a much higher bar. Public reporting and official documents have not clearly established that kind of direct coordination in a provable, legal sense. What they do show is a pattern of enforcement decisions that critics strongly disagree with.
So what you’re really looking at is a fight over interpretation: one side sees politically motivated enforcement, the other sees standard application of a law tied to specific incidents.
And like a lot of these cases, the language around it—“collusion,” “targeting,” “persecution”—is doing a lot of heavy lifting, depending on who’s telling the story.
