How Biden's DOJ Went After Pro-Lifers
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
The mainstream framing treats this as a narrow dispute over “clinic access,” as if the only question is whether the government enforced a neutral rule. But the reporting now points to something more troubling: enforcement choices that looked carefully aimed, then publicly denied. When DOJ power is used to make an example out of one side in a cultural conflict, it stops being ordinary prosecution and starts eroding **public trust**.
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We now know something the Biden administration spent years denying: It wasn't merely enforcing the law around abortion clinics --
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The mainstream framing treats this as a narrow dispute over “clinic access,” as if the only question is whether the government enforced a neutral rule. But the reporting now points to something more troubling: enforcement choices that looked carefully aimed, then publicly denied.
When DOJ power is used to make an example out of one side in a cultural conflict, it stops being ordinary prosecution and starts eroding public trust. Conservatives aren’t arguing for lawlessness outside clinics. We’re asking why federal resources seemed to flow so readily toward one political narrative, while comparable disorder elsewhere drew slower, softer attention.
A serious government must apply the rule of law evenly, protect constitutional rights, and avoid turning agencies into tools of selective enforcement. The principle at stake is simple: justice has to be predictable, not partisan.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.