Twenty FBI agents showed up at Mark Houck's Pennsylvania home before sunrise – because he prayed outside an abortion clinic.
Biden's DOJ called it federal law enforcement.
A new report based on 700,000 internal records tells a very different story.
How Planned Parenthood Helped Biden DOJ Build Cases Against Pro-Life Activists
The Trump Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group released its first major report – and Merrick Garland's name is on every page.
After reviewing more than 700,000 internal records – emails, case files, prosecutorial notes – investigators found that Biden's DOJ didn't just enforce the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act unequally – a 1994 Clinton-era law meant to protect both abortion clinics and pregnancy resource centers from obstruction and violence.
They built an apparatus.
Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation, and the Feminist Majority Foundation weren't just cheering from the sidelines.
Biden's prosecutors embedded them inside active federal investigations – giving them access to build 137-page dossiers, cross-reference activist travel, mine social media, and hand targets directly to the Civil Rights Division.
In one documented case, a pro-abortion group flagged an activist's movements across multiple states before any alleged crime had even occurred.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said: "This department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice. No Department should conduct selective prosecution based on beliefs. The weaponization that happened under the Biden Administration will not happen again, as we restore integrity to our prosecutorial system."
Merrick Garland Sought 26 Months for Pro-Life Protesters and 12 for Abortion Vandals
Biden's DOJ sought an average prison sentence of 26.8 months for pro-life defendants. For defendants who attacked pro-life organizations – firebombing pregnancy centers, spray-painting churches – prosecutors sought an average of 12.3 months.
Sing hymns outside an abortion clinic. Get more than twice the prison time of someone who throws a Molotov cocktail at a pregnancy center.
The report also found prosecutors withheld evidence from defense attorneys – evidence they had "readily available" – and attempted to screen jurors based on religious beliefs. In the Mark Houck case, Biden's team refused his offer to self-surrender and deployed a small army instead.
Houck was acquitted.
Sanjay Patel – the lead Civil Rights Division prosecutor on every FACE Act case brought under Biden – was simultaneously vouching for the National Abortion Federation's private grant application. No ethics review. No recusal. The man deciding which pro-lifers got prosecuted was personally invested in the financial health of the group feeding him targets.
Assistant Attorney General Daniel Burrows summed it up: "Lawyers who should have known better withheld evidence, worked to keep committed religious people off juries, and generally allowed the Department of Justice to be used as the enforcement arm of pro-abortion special interests."
The DOJ fired the prosecutors responsible Monday – Patel had been on administrative leave since March.
The pattern was never subtle. In 2022 alone, Biden's DOJ charged at least 26 pro-life activists under the FACE Act and zero abortion activists – despite FBI Director Christopher Wray acknowledging before Congress that 70 percent of abortion-related violence since the Dobbs decision targeted pro-life organizations.
Garland's explanation? Abortion terrorists attack at night. Too dark to catch them.
Meanwhile, an 89-year-old concentration camp survivor named Eva Edl – who sat in a wheelchair singing hymns outside a Tennessee clinic – faced 11 years in federal prison.
Trump pardoned 23 pro-life Americans convicted during Biden's tenure. He also limited future FACE Act prosecutions to extraordinary circumstances involving genuine violence.
The Selective Prosecution Pattern Merrick Garland Could Never Explain
The Biden DOJ spent four years building dossiers on grandmothers and fathers praying on public sidewalks – coordinating with Planned Parenthood, withholding evidence, stacking juries. And when they finally dragged these people into court, Philadelphia juries threw the case out.
Seven hundred thousand documents later, America now knows exactly what Merrick Garland was running – and who he was running it for.
Sources:
- Michael Dorgan, "Biden DOJ weaponized FACE Act against pro-life Americans, 882-report alleges," Fox News, April 14, 2026.
- "Justice Department Reveals the Biden Administration's Weaponization of Federal Law Against Pro-Life Americans," U.S. Department of Justice, April 14, 2026.
- "Biden DOJ worked with abortion-rights groups to track conservative activists and withheld evidence in FACE Act trials," Washington Examiner, April 14, 2026.
- "Trump Admin Fires Prosecutors Who Put Pro-Life Americans in Prison," LifeNews, April 13, 2026.
- "Six Pro-Life Activists Convicted of Federal FACE Act Charges, Face Over a Decade in Prison," National Catholic Register, January 31, 2024.
