Report Details DOJ Task Force Communications with Abortion Groups on Pro-Life Activities

# Report Reveals DOJ Task Force Sought Pro-Life Activist Information from Abortion Groups The Biden Department of Justice's National Task Force on Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers asked abortion advocacy groups about pro-life individuals' travel and constitutionally protected advocacy, according to a Tuesday report on the Biden administration's weaponization of the FACE Act.

Abortion advocacy groups routinely helped the task force track pro-life activists. Former Civil Rights Division trial attorney Sanjay Patel served as director of the task force.

Sanjay Patel was on texting terms with the National Abortion Federation’s Security Team and regularly communicated with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Feminist Majority Foundation, the report stated. Nongovernmental organizations sent the DOJ security reports or dossiers on the activities of pro-life activists and their personal information during investigations of later pardoned cases.

In 2021, one pro-choice NGO sent the Task Force Director and the FBI a 137-page memorandum on a pro-life group’s annual conference schedule, lodging, and multi-page dossiers on numerous anti-choice individuals, including many of the pardoned defendants.

# Patel's Reference Role for Abortion Federation Lacked Ethics Approval Sanjay Patel agreed to serve as a reference on the National Abortion Federation’s application for a private grant, the Tuesday report said. A supervisor told Sanjay Patel to obtain ethics approval for serving as a reference for the National Abortion Federation.

The DOJ’s review of all custodian emails did not reveal any email where Sanjay Patel contacted his ethics officer on the reference matter or retracted his offer to the National Abortion Federation.

The Biden DOJ had limited interactions with pro-life organizations as pregnancy centers faced attacks following the leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case in 2022. The Biden DOJ pursued only three prosecutions against abortion activists.

President Donald Trump pardoned 23 pro-life activists in January 2025 who were prosecuted during the Biden administration. 8 months in prison for pro-life defendants charged with non-violent crimes. 3 months in prison for pro-abortion defendants charged with non-violent crimes.

Dozens of pro-life groups, led by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Monday. The letter urged him to protect women and babies from chemical abortion and reverse the DOJ’s stance of siding with the abortion drug industry.

“The letter from 78 pro-life groups noted that pro-life states cannot enforce their laws when the FDA sides with mail-order abortionists and the DOJ sides with abortion drug manufacturers. — 78 pro-life groups led by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America A study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center found the rate of dangerous adverse effects after taking mifepristone is 22 times higher than the FDA indicates.”