Rep. Chip Roy vowed Thursday to move forward with his bill to repeal the law used by the Biden administration to arrest, prosecute, and jail pro-life demonstrators.
The Texas Republican’s bill would repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, which former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice weaponized against 23 pro-life activists.
“If my Republican colleagues continue to refuse to bring the FACE Act up for a vote in committee or the floor, I will file a discharge petition, and I will start to try to move the bill, irrespective of the normal procedures,” Roy said in a speech Thursday at the conservative policy think tank The Heritage Foundation.
Passed in 1994, the FACE Act prohibits the use or threat of force and physical obstruction that “injures, intimidates, or interferes” with a person seeking to obtain or…
