This week, the GOP-led U.S. House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government held a hearing on “Revisiting the Implications of the FACE Act,” a Clinton-era law that prohibits anyone from physically obstructing access to “reproductive health services.”
Subcommittee members convened Wednesday to further examine the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act’s unequal, politicized application against pro-life activists.
One such defendant, pro-life leader Paul Vaughn, the president of Personhood Tennessee, appeared before the congressional subcommittee to testify about his harrowing experience being prosecuted by the Biden-Harris administration’s U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Pro-life advocate Paul Vaughn describes his family’s traumatic experience the day he was arrested at his home by the FBI for an alleged violation of the Face Act.@JudiciaryGOP pic.twitter.com/P81eSNehxu
— Live Action News (@LiveActionNews) December 18, 2024
Federal agents had raided Vaughn’s family residence and arrested him “at gunpoint” for peacefully protesting in front of an abortion clinic in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, a year and a half prior.
On the morning of October 5, 2022, during school drop-off time, a SWAT team descended on his house, “guns drawn,” Vaugh recounted, handcuffed the father of 11 as his terror-stricken children watched, and whisked