ACLJ Asks Secretary of Defense Hegseth To Ensure an End to Abortion Propaganda Calling Pro-Lifers “Terrorists” in Army Training

We recently reported on our unsettling discovery that Biden’s Army had been instructing Fort Bragg (formerly Fort Liberty under the Biden Administration) trainees that pro-life Americans were domestic terrorists as far back as 2011. We also learned that the Biden Army’s investigator had essentially covered up the shocking actions with a report containing demonstrably inaccurate claims and even contradicted itself.

As promised, we’ve just sent a letter to President Trump’s new military leadership, specifically Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll, bringing our critical findings to their attention – and respectfully urging them to take action to weed out this nonsense from our military training doctrine. This is the only way to make things right for our client and all pro-life Americans.

Last year, we sent a demand letter to Biden’s Army Secretary, and the response we received, along with what the Army’s then-leadership told Congress, would have been enough of a win – if it had been true and complete. We have now confirmed that it was not.

Our legal instincts told us to look deeper. Sure enough, the need for our letter to Secretary Hegseth became evident after we reviewed the records acquired through our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. This trove of documents clearly showed that the Biden Army’s “PR” talking point, that an unvetted PowerPoint slide slipped into the presentation, was knowingly false.

They had claimed that it was simply a matter of a wrong “title” (“Terrorist Groups”) being placed on the slide displaying the “Choose Life” license plate image and pro-life organizations’ logos, including that of our client Operation Rescue.

But now, we know that their own investigation revealed that the training, which soldiers described in sworn statements, came across like “teaching doctrine” and had targeted pro-life Americans for almost 15 years. Our client’s (Operation Rescue) logo has been included since at least 2017, and slides targeting pro-lifers generally as terrorists have been included since at least 2011. But amazingly, the investigator assessed that it was simply a “mistake.” A 15-year mistake? As we summarized:

The investigation report concluded that “Labelling the slide ‘Terrorist Groups’ was a mistake” instead of recognizing that pro-lifers should not have been included in the entire “Terrorism Awareness” presentation in the first place. This is far more egregious than simply stating that the title of one slide was a “mistake,” as the entire training was about terrorism. Further, the conclusion that the labeling of that slide was a “mistake” is unsupported by a shred of evidence in the investigation file. The attempt to brush this under the rug is glaring.

It was no mistake. True to its typical swamp-like bureaucratic form, “woke” and Leftist ideologues intentionally used Army resources and a captive audience to indoctrinate soldiers to hold the view that pro-lifers are terrorists and that millions of pro-life Americans are a threat to security. And even that “Choose Life” license plates issued by 33 states (including North Carolina, where Fort Bragg sits) are evidence of terrorist threats. Planned Parenthood must be pleased.

This insanity must end. While Biden’s Army assured everyone that the problem had been corrected, we simply don’t believe them. What we discovered through our FOIA request confirmed our suspicion. And that’s why we just wrote to Secretary Hegseth and Secretary Driscoll. They are now in a position to bring this to a resolution and make this right. We are hopeful because they’ve demonstrated the desire to free America’s fighting forces from this Leftist nonsense.

As we said in our letter, “Given your clear stand and demonstrated record of calling out and opposing all ‘woke’ Leftist/Marxist ideology and propaganda from our Nation’s great fighting forces, we are hopeful you will see this matter as worthy of your attention and action.” We specifically made these requests:

• To direct the Army to issue a meaningful direct apology to our client, Operation Rescue, and its Director, Troy Newman, for the wrongful actions committed by the Army under the prior Biden Administration.
• To make a public statement, or at least one addressed to all trainees, that the United States military considers pro-life Americans and organizations neither terrorists nor extremists, that all prior training to the contrary is false, along with a direction that any such training or propaganda be removed and reported to appropriate Army personnel.
• To direct, forthwith, the immediate production of all remaining Army records concerning this subject, including, but not limited to, the Exhibits in the investigation file we have obtained. 
• To address Congress’ concerns by issuing a new statement that rectifies and replaces the prior misleading representations.

We look forward to working with our military’s new leadership, one that is reimplementing dominant warfighting as its institutional goal, not woke indoctrination and social science experiments on soldiers at the Constitution’s expense. We’ll keep you updated on our progress.

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