Overview

• The House Judiciary Committee approved Rep. Chip Roy’s FACE Act Repeal Act in a 13–10 vote along party lines on June 10, 2025.
• GOP lawmakers cited FOIA data showing 92 percent of Biden-era FACE Act prosecutions targeted anti-abortion demonstrators at clinics.
• Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, warned that repealing the law would remove federal protections for reproductive health facilities, depriving patients of federal safeguards.
• The Trump administration limited the statute’s use to “extraordinary circumstances,” later pardoning 23 individuals previously convicted under the FACE Act.
• The repeal effort now moves to the full House, where lawmakers will debate whether to eliminate a law that also empowers state attorneys general to pursue clinic access cases.