The Biden Justice Department worked hand-in-glove with abortion-rights organizations that compiled personal dossiers on pro-life activists, files that included home addresses, driver's license numbers, and photographs of minor children, and then used that information to monitor and prosecute the very people those groups flagged, Fox News Digital reported, citing a sweeping new Justice Department report released this week.
The more-than-200-page document, titled "The 2026 Report by the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias," lays out what it describes as a systematic effort under former Attorney General Merrick Garland to turn the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act into a tool for targeting Christians who opposed abortion. The task force compiled its findings after reviewing case files, internal communications, and prosecutorial decisions across 17 federal agencies.
Many of the individuals named in those dossiers were later prosecuted by the Justice Department. One unnamed female activist was tracked "around the country" until a U.S. Attorney's Office finally brought charges. After her conviction and a lengthy sentence, the report notes dryly, "the NGOs stopped complaining about her."
The report paints a picture of an enforcement pipeline that ran from private advocacy organizations straight into the federal government's prosecutorial apparatus. Garland revived the National Task Force on Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers, and that body allegedly asked abortion groups directly about the travels and advocacy work of individual pro-life Americans.
Abortion-rights organizations responded by sending the Justice Department what the report calls "security reports" or "dossiers." These were not vague tip sheets. They contained specific personal data, addresses, driver's license numbers, and photos of families, including minor children.
The National Abortion Federation's security team earned a particular distinction. The Task Force dubbed NAF's team the "MVP" for its ability to flag protests to the Justice Department "often in real-time, which usually result[ed] in an investigation/prosecution." The Task Force director texted directly with NAF's security staff and maintained regular communication with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Feminist Majority Foundation.
In many cases, the report says, the Task Force received alerts before local law enforcement even had a chance to respond. The federal government, in other words, was not reacting to crimes. It was receiving intelligence from ideologically aligned private groups and acting on it ahead of the cops on the ground.
The pattern fits a broader record of Biden-era FACE Act enforcement that critics have long called one-sided and politically motivated.
One episode from 2021 stands out. A pro-choice group, the report does not name which one, sent the Task Force and the FBI a 137-page memorandum that detailed an entire pro-life conference. The document included the conference schedule, lodging information, and individual dossiers on numerous people the group labeled "anti-choice individuals."
The FBI itself flagged the problem. Bureau officials warned the Justice Department that pro-choice groups were tracking pro-life activists engaged in "1st Amendment protected activity." That warning, the report's findings suggest, did not slow the collaboration.
The New York Post reported additional details from the task force's findings, including an episode in which the FBI's Richmond field office opened a "Guardian profile" on a Catholic chapel belonging to the Society of Saint Pius X. Agents scrutinized a priest and his family after a criminal suspect described himself as a "radical traditional Catholic", a label that apparently gave the bureau reason to look more broadly at the parish.
That revelation echoes a pattern of Biden-era FBI investigations launched on thin pretexts and sustained long after the underlying basis collapsed.
The task force issued 14 formal findings. Its central conclusion was blunt: the Biden administration "generally tolerated religious beliefs that were privately held but zealously pursued actions to limit Christians' ability to act in accordance with their faith."
The report stated that Biden-era policies "regularly clashed with a Christian worldview and burdened traditional religious practices." Those clashes, it said, "frequently arose over abortion, gender ideology, and sexual orientation. Ultimately, the Biden Administration penalized Christians who lived in accordance with their beliefs."
The bias was not confined to abortion enforcement. The Washington Examiner reported that the task force also documented the IRS denying tax-exempt status to a Christian organization. A former IRS official, Stephen Martin, told the group that its "Bible teachings are typically affiliated with the [Republican] party and candidates," which he said disqualified it under Section 501(c)(3). The IRS, in effect, treated Scripture as partisan speech.
Other examples cited in the report included the rejection of religious exemption requests from employees at federally funded institutions who objected to mandatory COVID vaccinations and transgender accommodation policies, unequal treatment of Christian universities, and HHS rules that affected Christian foster parents.
The scope of the report, a 566-page document drawn from 700,000 internal Biden administration records, suggests the task force cast a wide net. Just The News noted the review covered internal discussions, case files, and prosecutorial decisions across those 17 agencies, making it one of the most comprehensive government examinations of alleged viewpoint discrimination in recent memory.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche framed the report as a line in the sand. He told reporters the department would not allow what happened under Biden to recur.
"This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice. No Department should conduct selective prosecution based on beliefs. The weaponization that happened under the Biden Administration will not happen again, as we restore integrity to our prosecutorial system."
Blanche's language, "selective prosecution based on beliefs", goes to the heart of what the report describes. The FACE Act is supposed to protect access to reproductive health facilities. It is not supposed to function as a federal surveillance warrant triggered by private advocacy groups who disagree with someone's views on abortion.
Yet the report alleges that is precisely what happened. Pro-life activists were not just prosecuted. They were tracked, cataloged, and fed into a system where the government's partners were the same organizations whose political interests aligned with prosecution. The National Review reported the task force described the pattern as "aggressive persecutions" of Christians holding "traditional biblical views."
President Trump moved early to address part of the damage. In January 2025, he issued full and unconditional pardons to 23 pro-life activists and protesters who had been prosecuted under the FACE Act. The pardons signaled that the incoming administration viewed those prosecutions as unjust.
The task force report now provides the documentary basis for that judgment. It also raises questions the Biden administration's defenders will need to answer, if anyone in that orbit is willing to answer them.
Penny Nance, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America, called the findings a confirmation of what pro-life advocates experienced firsthand. She told Fox News Digital that the Biden administration's "unlawful weaponization and imprisonment" of pro-lifers was "unconscionable."
"And it's an insidious revelation that the Biden Administration was working so intimately with abortion providers to persecute pro-life Americans. No American should be subjected to the kind of partisan, politically motivated attacks pro-lifers have had to face, prosecution and imprisonment, for their freedom of speech."
Fox News Digital reached out to the National Abortion Federation for comment. The report itself comes weeks after the Justice Department published a separate 800-page report revealing 700,000 internal records from the Biden administration that showed how enforcement tools were unevenly applied against conservative activists.
The broader pattern of Biden-era DOJ coordination with politically aligned actors has drawn sustained scrutiny since Trump took office, and this report adds the most granular evidence yet.
Several open questions remain. The report does not name the pro-choice group that sent the 137-page conference memorandum in 2021. It does not identify the female activist who was tracked across the country and eventually convicted. And it does not specify which U.S. Attorney's Office brought charges in that case. Those gaps matter, not because they undermine the findings, but because they mark where further accountability work remains.
The Biden administration's defenders will likely argue that FACE Act prosecutions were lawful responses to genuine violations. But lawful authority exercised selectively, fed by private dossiers containing photos of children, and coordinated through text messages with advocacy groups is not equal justice. It is something else entirely.
The record laid out in this report fits a pattern that extends well beyond abortion enforcement, from White House staffers cheering on politically charged prosecutions to IRS officials treating the Bible as a Republican pamphlet. When the government picks its targets based on what they believe rather than what they did, it has stopped enforcing the law and started enforcing orthodoxy.
A government that outsources its surveillance to activist groups and calls it justice has earned every word of scrutiny this report delivers.
