Wrist Slap For Man Who Attacked Pro-Lifers Proves The FACE Act Was Always A Lawfare Tool
By: Jordan Boyd (The Federalist)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Until Congress passes the FACE Act Repeal Act, pro-lifers are still vulnerable to further abuse — both legal and physical.
If pro-life activist and father Mark Houck can be arrested and have his house raided by the FBI for shoving a pro-abortionist who repeatedly initiated profanity-laced verbal confrontations with Houck and his son, the 28-year-old man who brutally beat two elderly pro-lifers outside of a Planned Parenthood should get some jail time, right? Wrong.
Surveillance footage of the 2023 attack shows Patrick Brice tackling and repeatedly wailing on two men who were posted oustide of the Baltimore abortion facility advocating and praying for unborn children.
NEW: Man found guilty of assaulting elderly pro-life advocates outside a Baltimore Planned Parenthood on May 26, 2023
Patrick Brice, 28, was convicted of two counts of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment
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One of the men, 73-year-old Mark Crosby, sustained permanent damage to his right eye and made several subsequent emergency room trips thanks to an orbital fracture dealt by Brice. The other was "knocked unconscious," Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel of Thomas More Society, confirmed.
"This was not a minor altercation between two parties with differing views on abortion. It was a vicious, targeted assault on two senior citizens whose only 'offense' was praying for expectant mothers and offering life-affirming alternatives to abortion," Brejcha said in a statement, calling Brice's actions "cowardice," "cruelty," and "sheer mayhem."
In light of those details, prosecutors asked that Brice be given 10 years in prison after he was convicted on two counts of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment. Instead of jail time, however, Baltimore Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant gave the man who "just snapped" on what some media outlets called a "bad day" home detention, three years probation, anger management classes, and therapy.
The pro-life movement is no stranger to violence. Nor is it unfamiliar with a lack of justice and remedy for that violence.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's leaked Dobbs v. Jackson decision, more than 90 lifesaving pregnancy centers, pro-life organizations, and churches suffered pro-abortion-fueled firebombings, vandalism, and other attacks.
Instead of focusing its attention on these criminal acts, however, the Biden administration honed 55 of its 60 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act)prosecutions on pro-lifers. The years-long campaign to put Americans who prayed, sang, and evangelized at abortion facilities in prison took priority over any accountability for pro-abortion activists. In fact, it spread to states like New York where Attorney General Letitia James targeted Red Rose Rescue sidewalk counselors under both the FACE Act and the New York Clinic Access Act, a state-level "equivalent" to the federal statute.
This dangerous two-tiered version of justice was only partially remedied when President Donald Trump pardoned nearly two dozen of those targeted pro-lifers and issued a memo declaring his administration would only use the FACE Act in "extraordinary circumstances, or in cases presenting significant aggravating factors."
"When our justice system fails to hold perpetrators like Brice fully accountable, it sends a dangerous message that pro-lifers can be attacked with impunity," Brejcha said following the sentencing. "This not only jeopardizes the safety of peaceful demonstrators, but it undermines the rule of law and the right to free speech.
Yet, as long as the FACE Act, which many including legal experts understand to be unconstitutional, exists, peaceful pro-lifers like the ones Brice beat are at risk.
Not only could they be targeted by the radical pro-abortion regime obsessed with lawfare, but they could also lose out on justice for the people who violently try to deter them from spreading their lifesaving message.
FACE Act defenders have long claimed the law is necessary to ensure justice against violent actors is equally applied. The application of the FACE Act, however, suggests otherwise.
Thirteen of the 25 Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee voted in June to advance the FACE Act Repeal Act, which seeks to repeal the law the Biden administration weaponized against pro-lifers. Until both chambers of the legislature act on it, and Trump signs it, however, pro-lifers are still vulnerable to further abuse — both legal and physical.
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This is what they want, freedom to attack those who dissent from their religion.
I'm surprised he hasn't gained hero status in the leftist land.
So he beat up a fascist? Big deal.
Calling others a fascist as you cheer for violent attacks on peaceful protesters. Bold move.
Is anyone surprised that all this advocacy and support for violence against peaceful protesters from left wingers never draws any criticism from our "defenders of democracy" who think Trump is the threat?
Got any proof he is a fascist?
Protesting something you fully support does not equate being a fascist
FFS look up the definition of "Fascist" and use the word properly.
As a side note, I really wish I could say I'm surprised that you are supporting somebody who violently attacked 2 elderly people, but it's become an expectation.
‘FFS look up the definition of "Fascist" and use the word properly’
They won’t. Most leftists have been told to think what the definition and they know no other way but to do what they are told
Two tier justice. Another progressive who should be nowhere near the bench.
Imagine letting that animal walk. What scum. All of this violence from the left still goes unpunished.
He should be given a medal.
Yes, one made of lead, shot through his head.
The question should it be .45 or .9mm.
We already know those who advocate for abortion are killers. One million deaths last year, alone.
If you don't want an abortion, don't get one. You manage your vagina, let other people manage theirs.
Indeed. It seems some people just can't mind their own business over someone's personal medical decisions. Its simply not their business or concern.
Or else?
Good then let us get rid of Planned Parenthood and give thugs like this piece of shit a huge dose of their own medicine.
If busybodies kept their nose out of other people's business this would not be a problem
If girls didn't wear short skirts, they wouldn't be raped!
they have a right to wear short skirts,
Seems like there a thing called the first amendment that gives people rights too.
people also have the right to be secure in their persons
You can keep trying to justify beating up peaceful senior citizens for having different opinions than you do but that's not allowed in America. I, for one, am glad. I like the first amendment and not not only for people who think like me.
and where did I so That? My response was to 4.1.3
So you agree that the thugs who attacked the peacefully protesting seniors are criminals, deserve to be punished as such and no justification exists for their actions?
If they committed Assault & Battery they should be charged.
If the protesters were bothering or harassing customers of the facility they also should be charged
If busybodies had kept out of something they had no business in none of this would have happened
Back to blaming the victim.
so you admit they could not tend to their own business and just wanted to bother other people in a mstter that was none of their concern?
Didn't y'all already do that to DR. Barnett Slepian ... ?
I believe people have the right to free speech even if I don't agree with the message without being assaulted. Why is that so for hard for you to support? You are right back to the "if she didn't wear a short skirt" victim blaming.
I said if they committed assult & battery they should be charged
While also victim blaming.
why can't you mind your own business?
the real victims are the people trying to have a medical procedure they have chosen to have, they should be left alone
Hmmmmm...wonder why you did not say this when Biden put his DOJ on Catholic churchgoers? s/
Lol. Sure. Not the senior citizens who got hospitalized.
Won't anyone think of the people who might have heard words!!!! The tragedy.
Thats stupid! Why should we get rid of PP? That would negatively affect patients seeking medical services.
Rape is not a right. Its a violent crime. And you're victim blaming to justify it?
WTF are you talking about?
I assume you are either on the wrong seed or didn't read this one.
Do we? Couldn't the same be said for anyone who's not a vegetarian? Anyone advocating the eating of meat by definition is a killer then. In fact, one could argue that any male who has ever masturbated is a mass murderer and killed hundreds of thousands with nothing more than a few flicks of his wrist. But most rational people would just laugh at such a stupid premise and the dim bulb that made it. While a sperm may be alive, a sperm isn't a human. And neither is a cow, or a chicken, or a fertilized egg or even an embryo that isn't able to survive outside the womb on its own.