The DoJ reduces the proceedings for blocking reproductive health care establishments

Washington (AP) – The new Directorate of the Ministry of Justice of President Donald Trump published an order on Friday to reduce prosecution against persons accused of having blocked installations for the defense of reproductive rights, describing these cases as an example as “Militarization” of the police.

The chief of staff of the Ministry of Justice, Chad Mizelle, said in a note that civil proceedings and actions under the law on the freedom of access to the entries of the clinics or “facing law” will now be authorized only in “extraordinary circumstances” or in cases with “important aggravating factors”.

Mizelle also ordered the immediate rejection of three civil cases linked to the Face law linked to clinical blockages in 2021. Tennessee,, Pennsylvania And Ohio. A man was accused of having obtained “illegal access to a secure space for patients in a Planned Parenthood establishment in Philadelphia without the authorization or the information of the staff” and to be barricaded themselves in toilets, according to court documents.

“President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise to end the militarization of the federal government and recently ordered all the federal departments and agencies to identify and correct the past militarization of the police,” wrote Mizelle in the note obtained by the Associated Press.

“For many Americans, civil proceedings and actions under the law on freedom of access to the entries of clinics (” Face Act “) were the typical example of this militarization. And for good reason, “he wrote.

This announcement comes a few hours after Trump is committed to supporting tens of thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators when walking on Friday, declaring: “We will be proud of families and life again” in a Pre -recorded speech.

Vice-president JD Vance, who addressed the crowd in person, celebrated the grace given to the accused of the law in front and called Trump as “the most pro-life president of our life”.

One day earlier, Trump had pardoned several anti-abortion activists found guilty of blocked the entrances to abortion clinics in the face of the Face, designed to protect abortion clinics against obstructions and threats.

Mizelle wrote that “more than 100 emergency pregnancy centers, pro-life organizations and churches were attacked immediately after” the decision of the United States Supreme Court according to which canceled roe v. Wade. However, almost all of the lawsuits under the Face law have been directed against anti-abortion demonstrators, he wrote.