The Justice Department official who investigates attacks on reproductive healthcare centers has actually been a vehement critic of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, many of which have been under attack and even firebombed by pro-abortion extremists over the past month.
Civil Rights Division Chief Kristen Clarke slammed the centers following a Supreme Court choice ruling in their favor in 2018. Clarke stated the centers, which counsel pregnant females on options other than abortion, were “damaging” and “predatory” versus ladies of color. She likewise described them with the incendiary hashtag, “ExposeFakeClinics.”.
Clarke’s position on the centers provides a possible explanation for the Justice Department’s refusal to investigate a string of attacks on pro-life centers since the May 2 leak of a draft Supreme Court decision to reverse Roe v. Wade. Sen. Marco Rubio asked Attorney General Merrick Garland recently to investigate the events as acts of domestic terrorism. Garland has yet to open an investigation, despite the fact that he said on Sept. 6 that he would investigate criminal offenses against”reproductive health center[s]” under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act)..
Clarke manages all investigations of possible FACE Act offenses. In March, she charged nine people under the statute for obstructing the entryway to a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic.
The attacks on crisis pregnancy centers, churches, and other pro-life organizations have actually run rampant since the leak of the Roe v. Wade draft opinion last month. Twenty-four crisis centers have actually been vandalized or set on fire since the leak, according to a group that tracks the occurrences. In the most recent attacks, a center in Buffalo was firebombed on June 7. A center in Gresham, Ore., was hit with an “incendiary device” over the weekend.
The attacks belong to a broad intimidation campaign by left-wing activists distressed that Roe might be reversed. Activists have openly gathered outside the homes of conservative justices in clear violation of laws against the intimidation of Judges. An extreme left-wing group hatched plans to close down the Supreme Court utilizing methods that “stretch the bounds of constitutionally protected speech.” One pro-abortion radical tried to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh recently.
Clarke revealed her opposition to crisis pregnancy centers following a Supreme Court judgment in June 2018 that overruled a California requirement that the centers notify clients about state abortion services.
“The anti-choice movement will stop at nothing,” wrote Clarke, using left-wing activist jargon to refer to pro-life groups. She added the hashtags, “#EndTheLies” and “#ExposeFakeClinics.”
Clarke also said the centers prey on women of color. She said the Supreme Court decision would have “harmful consequences for women, especially women of color who are often targeted by predatory [crisis pregnancy centers].”
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights group Clarke led at the time, alleged that crisis pregnancy centers “target some of the most vulnerable women in communities today.”
Asked about Clarke’s tweets, Rubio said she should be disqualified from overseeing any eventual investigation into an attack on the crisis pregnancy centers.
“Kristen Clarke never should have been confirmed,” Rubio told the Washington Free Beacon. “Her disdain toward the very people now under threat was predictable and it should be disqualifying. Attorney General Garland should make clear that Clarke will have no involvement in any of these cases as those move forward.”
The Justice Department did not react to requests for comment from the press about Clarke or whether the agency is considering investigations into any attack on the pro-life clinics.
Clarke has a long history of making questionable declarations about concerns she now manages as civil liberties chief. She wrote in assistance of the motion to defund the police in 2020 however denied to Republicans throughout her confirmation hearing that she wished to defund police departments. In 2019, Clarke went on the attack agaisnt the Chicago Police department for asking for access to the cellular phone of Jussie Smollett, the star discovered to have actually staged a scam in which he falsely claimed Trump supporters assaulted him because he is gay and black. Clarke has actually slammed conservative Supreme Court judges, many of whom are now the target of left-wing extremists. She claimed that Kavanaugh’s very presence on the Supreme Court bench would be “dangerous.” to the nation. Referring to the respected jurist as a “man who harbors such bias, rage, fury and is so easily unhinged.”
