The Trump administration is accusing the Biden Justice Department of working with pro-abortion groups to assemble personal dossiers on Christian pro-life advocates, including photos of their children, and using that material to push prosecutions under the FACE Act. A new government report lays out dozens of incidents and internal practices that critics say show a pattern of selective enforcement. The controversy has already produced pardons, counter-reports, and renewed calls for oversight of prosecutorial priorities.
The centerpiece of the findings is a document titled “The 2026 Report by the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias,” a multi-hundred-page compilation assembled after an executive order. The report claims Biden Justice Department officials “zealously pursued” cases against religiously motivated pro-life activists. It also includes the explicit observation that “The Biden Administration’s policies regularly clashed with a Christian worldview and burdened traditional religious practices.”
Central to the criticism is how the FACE Act was used. The law makes it illegal to obstruct or block entrances to reproductive health care centers, but the report says Justice Department staff revived a task force and leaned on abortion advocacy groups to flag potential violations. That combination, critics say, moved decisions about investigations into an uneasy partnership between prosecutors and activist organizations.
According to the report, Garland-era Task Force personnel asked abortion groups detailed questions about the movements and advocacy of pro-life individuals, which triggered an internal FBI warning. The bureau reportedly cautioned that some pro-choice organizations were tracking pro-life activists engaged in “1st Amendment protected activity.” Even with that warning on record, the Task Force continued to use material flagged by those groups.
The report alleges those flagged activists were then monitored and, in many cases, targeted for prosecution. Abortion advocacy groups allegedly forwarded security reports and dossiers that included home addresses, driver’s license numbers, and even photos of family members and minor children. Those kinds of details, the report argues, turned ordinary reporting into a database of private information used by prosecutors.
One detailed example in the material shows a 137-page memorandum sent in 2021 by a pro-choice group describing a pro-life conference, complete with schedules, lodging information, and multiple dossiers on identified activists. Several people named in that packet were later prosecuted under the FACE Act, according to the report. That chain of events is central to why critics say the process shifted from reporting to coordinated law enforcement action.
The report also singles out a prolonged investigation of a single female pro-life activist, documenting repeated complaints from abortion groups. “The Biden DOJ investigated this woman’s conduct around the country until one of the United States Attorney’s Offices brought charges,” the report states, and notes that once she was convicted and received a lengthy sentence, the complaints to the task force stopped. That sequence is presented as evidence of a complaint-driven prosecutorial pipeline.
Communication habits inside the Task Force drew sharp attention as well. The director reportedly texted frequently with the National Abortion Federation’s security team and maintained regular contact with Planned Parenthood and the Feminist Majority Foundation. NAF’s security team was dubbed the “MVP” by the Task Force for its ability to flag protests “often in real-time, which usually result[ed] in an investigation/prosecution.”
Investigators say that in multiple instances the task force received alerts before local police could respond, raising concerns about federal intervention in matters local law enforcement was handling. The report charges that suspected FACE Act violators were monitored for extended periods as the task force compiled background material. Those practices, the authors argue, reflect a prosecutorial focus driven by activists rather than neutral law enforcement priorities.
In January 2025, President Trump issued full and unconditional pardons to 23 pro-life activists who had been prosecuted under the FACE Act, a move supporters called necessary to correct politically motivated prosecutions. The Justice Department later released an 800-page report that included some 700,000 internal records suggesting the SAVE Act had been used against conservative activists in ways critics say were unfair. In response to these revelations, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice,” and added, “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.”
A source close to Biden declined to comment. The report and the subsequent statements from the Justice Department have already sharpened debates in Congress and among conservative legal advocates over how federal enforcement priorities are set and whether additional safeguards are needed.
