Justice Department to cut back prosecution of abortion clinic protest cases

Reproductive health sites lose protections

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people accused of blocking reproductive rights facilities, calling the cases an example of the "weaponization" of law enforcement.

Trump’s Justice Department limits cases over blocked access to abortion clinics

By Andrew Goudsward and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department’s new leadership under President Donald Trump ordered cutbacks on Friday on federal prosecutions of people accused of blocking access to reproductive health centers and abortion clinics, calling such cases a “weaponization” of law enforcement. Future abortion-related prosecutions and civil cases pursued under a law called the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entra…

Justice Department Shifts Stance on Abortion Clinic Prosecutions

Justice Department Shifts Stance on Abortion Clinic Prosecutions The U.S. Justice Department, under President Donald Trump, has shifted its stance on federal prosecutions related to access to reproductive health centers and abortion clinics. This policy change comes amid a directive to scale back cases deemed as 'weaponization' of law enforcement.According to a memo by Chad Mizelle, the chief of staff to the attorney general, future prosecutions…

DOJ lawyers directed to toss out charges against several anti-abortion activists

A top Justice Department official ordered prosecutors on Friday to terminate three pending cases brought by the Biden administration that involved protesters allegedly blocking entrances to abortion clinics. Attorney general chief of staff Chad Mizelle wrote to the Civil Rights Division head in a memo, obtained by the Washington Examiner, that the move was in line with President Donald Trump’s order... The post DOJ lawyers directed to toss out c…

Justice Dept. curtails prosecutions for blocking abortion clinics

Prosecutions and civil actions will be permitted only in "extraordinary circumstances" or in cases presenting "significant aggravating factors."

Trump Justice Dept. limits enforcement of FACE Act violations, pauses abortion-related actions

The FACE Act makes it illegal to harm, threaten or interfere with an individual "obtaining or providing reproductive health services" or damage a facility "because such facility provides reproductive health."