FBI is investigating criminal reaction to Roe ruling as potential domestic terrorism – By Jana Winter (Yahoo News) / July 2, 2022
The FBI is investigating ideologically motivated “suspicious criminal or potentially violent” reactions to the reversal of Roe v. Wade as potential acts of domestic terrorism, according to documents obtained by Yahoo News, prompting concerns from civil liberties experts that pro-abortion-rights Americans will be swept up in the FBI’s dragnet for exercising their First Amendment right to protest.
On June 24, the Supreme Court issued its long-anticipated ruling in a Mississippi case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to abortion. The decision touched off a wave of protests across the U.S. from both pro- and anti-abortion demonstrators.
Ahead of the decision, the FBI’s criminal and counterterrorism divisions issued guidance to law enforcement across the country warning that the Roe ruling could incite or inspire criminal activity by people on both sides of the abortion issue.
