As the tension in the abortion debate has ratcheted up in recent months, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department has been steadily rounding up and jailing pro-life activists for encouraging women not to get the procedure.
And it turns out that the recent threatened violence in the abortion debate is made almost exclusively against one side — the pro-life side.
Testifying before Congress on Thursday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that roughly 70 percent of the violent threats made since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision have been made against anti-abortion activists, according to Fox News.
Those victims would include churches, pregnancy centers, and other pro-life groups.
Wray testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott asked Wray about allegations that the FBI is not doing enough to stop violence against pro-life activists and facilities, including firebombings and vandalism.
Scott juxtaposed the seeming lack of inaction by the FBI in those cases with the agency’s recent high-profile arrests of pro-life advocates. Those actions, the senator said, feed the perception that the FBI is “weaponizing” federal law enforcement as “a partisan tool.”
In response, Wray said, “My view — plainly expressed to all of our people, including in the context of abortion-related violence — is that I don’t care what side of the issue you’re on, you don’t get to engage in violence, and we are equal-opportunity when it comes to that.”
“You might be interested to know,” he continued, “that since the Dobbs Act decision, probably in the neighborhood of 70% of our abortion-related violence cases or threats cases are cases of violence or threats against pro-life, where the victims are pro-life organizations,” Wray added.
“And we’re going after that through our joint terrorism task forces, through our criminal authorities, FACE Act, and things like that.”
He continued, “We have about 20 field offices involved in this. And so we take it very seriously. And again, I don’t care if you’re motivated by pro-life views or pro-choice views. You don’t get to use violence to express it.”
Fox noted that Scott questioned why the FBI has not been forceful in making that point to the public.
“We don’t have the time for me to tell how frustrated I sometimes get by some of the news reporting about our work and the misreporting of our work,” Wray answered.
“The circumspection that we display with regard to discussing our investigations is based on rules and practices that are important to people having confidence in the integrity of our work and go back decades, multiple administrations.”
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