Paul Vaughn faced up to 10 years in prison after the FBI raided his home at gunpoint over a Tennessee abortion facility protest.
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After being arrested in front of his family and facing up to ten years in prison, a protestant Christian father of 11 reached a settlement with the Department of Justice for demonstrating at a Tennessee abortion clinic in March, 2021.
Charged with violating the FACE Act, a federal law that prohibits “threats of force, obstruction or inflict property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services,” Paul Vaughn was convicted, according to a story by Fox News.
The 1994 law was used by former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department to antagonistically prosecute pro-life activists following the capsizing of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
Federal agents raided Vaughn’s home, guns first, two days after he was charged, according to his attorneys at the Thomas More Society, and arrested him in front of his wife and children.
The Biden DOJ also added a felony conspiracy charge carrying up to 10.5 years in prison.
Vaughn pursued legal action against the Justice Department over his prosecution. He shared first with Fox News Digital that he recently reached a seven-figure settlement with the government agency.
The settlement has brought much-needed closure to his family after living through a traumatic, multiyear ordeal stemming from the “egregious deeds of the Biden DOJ,” Vaughn said.
“Obviously, money doesn’t equate justice, and there’s not a true sense of justice in the settlement, but it is an acknowledgment of wrong, and it is something to help make up for the time lost,” he told Fox News Digital.
“What was done to Paul and his family was a profound injustice, and we are grateful that this settlement acknowledges that,” Thomas More Society attorney Steve Crampton said. “We also commend the Trump Department of Justice for having the courage to look at what its predecessor did, call it what it was — an abuse of power — and change course. No American should ever again have to fear an FBI raid for praying and offering hope to women in need.”
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