Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, reintroduced legislation to repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which he said is being used to target pro-life Americans, World reported Wednesday.

"Americans just spent the last four years being targeted by a weaponized justice system," Roy said in a statement. "The FACE Act was one of the primary weapons of abuse — being used to politically target, arrest, and jail pro-life Americans for speaking out and standing up for life." 

Congress passed the FACE Act in 1994 to prohibit threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive healthcare services, according to Lonestar Live.

Roy said that under the Biden administration, only five of the 60 FACE Act cases were against pro-abortion extremists, while 55 mostly targeted peaceful pro-lifers.

Roy introduced the same bill during the last congressional session, but it was referred to a committee and did not advance.

"Now that we have a Republican trifecta in the House, Senate, and White House, Congress should move quickly to repeal this law and ensure that no future president can weaponize it against pro-lifers ever again," said Roy, whose reintroduction of the bill was backed by 25 Republican cosponsors.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, introduced similar legislation in the Senate. 

Thomas More Society senior counsel Stephen Crampton, who has headed the legal effort to represent pro-lifers targeted under Biden in court, told The Federalist that abolishing the FACE Act has been a long-term goal.

"The fact is, FACE, we believe, was unconstitutional from day one. It was beyond Congress' authority," he said. "Since the Dobbs decision in 2022, clarifying the fact that abortion never was a federal constitutional right, the whole purpose for the FACE Act has vanished, and consequently the law itself ought to be done away with."

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