A Tennessee pro-life activist told House lawmakers Wednesday that FBI agents wrongfully raided his home in what Republicans call a pattern of weaponization in President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ).
Paul Vaughn testified alongside his attorney Steve Crampton before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Erin Hawley also testified at the hearing focused on the 1994 law that prohibits “threats of force, obstruction and property damage” to block access to abortion clinics, according to the DOJ. The law also applies to pro-life pregnancy resource centers.
Vaughn, a Christian father of 11, faces charges stemming from a protest at a Tennessee abortion clinic in March 2021. Prosecutors charged him under both FACE and the Conspiracy…
