On August 5, 2024, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) sent a legal demand letter on behalf of Operation Rescue to Christine E. Wormuth, the Secretary of the Army. The letter demanded a clear, direct acknowledgement and written apology for grossly mislabeling Operation Rescue as a domestic terrorist group in its training sessions – not once, not twice, but approximately 150 times over a seven-year period. The letter also demanded express assurance that such baseless labeling will not recur.
Whistleblower Photo Goes Viral
Operation Rescue’s demand letter came after a whistleblower released a photo on X of a presentation slide falsely identifying Operation Rescue and other pro-life organizations as “TERRORIST GROUPS” at a training at Fort Liberty Army Installation in North Carolina.
“This type of training that mislabels peaceful pro-life groups is a disgrace to these men and women who fight real terrorists,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “If peaceful pro-life activism is now ‘terrorism,’ what does that say about a society that allows Planned Parenthood to profit from selling the remains of aborted children? The true criminals are those profiting from death, not those defending life.”
Newman was not the only one aghast by the Army’s shocking designation.
Legislator Gets Involved
Amid a media uproar, U.S. Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) sent a letter confronting Wormuth for the Army’s egregious targeting of pro-life groups. Wormuth admitted in her July 16 response that the controversial slide had been used every two to three weeks for at least seven years. The letter included the following statement: […]
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