Title: Protecting Mothers and Babies from Terrorism Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Protecting Mothers and Babies from Terrorism Act
This bill deems certain conduct of members of Jane's Revenge and Ruth Sent Us as domestic terrorism.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8196 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8196

To deem certain conduct of members of the groups ``Jane's Revenge'' and 
    ``Ruth Sent Us'' as domestic terrorism, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 23, 2022

  Mrs. Greene of Georgia (for herself, Mr. Harris, and Mrs. Miller of 
  Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To deem certain conduct of members of the groups ``Jane's Revenge'' and 
    ``Ruth Sent Us'' as domestic terrorism, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Mothers and Babies from 
Terrorism Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) On May 8, 2022, the headquarters of Wisconsin Family 
        Action, a pregnancy center in Madison, Wisconsin, was set on 
        fire and left with graffiti saying, ``If abortions aren't safe 
        then you aren't either'', with ``Jane's Revenge'' claiming 
        responsibility for the attack and for several other similar 
        attacks across the country.
            (2) On May 25, 2022, Next Step Pregnancy Center in 
        Lynnwood, Washington, was vandalized and graffitied.
            (3) On May 22, 2022, St. Michael's Parish in Olympia, 
        Washington, was vandalized with the words ``Abort the church'' 
        spray-painted on the wall, with ``Jane's Revenge'' claiming 
        responsibility.
            (4) In May 2022, graffiti saying, ``Not a Clinic'' and 
        ``From Jane'' was found at Dove Medical Clinic in Eugene, 
        Oregon.
            (5) In May 2022, the offices of Oregon Right to Life in 
        Keizer, Oregon, were set on fire.
            (6) In May 2022, the windows of Southeast Portland 
        Pregnancy Resource Center in Portland, Oregon, were smashed and 
        a hateful message was spray-painted on the wall.
            (7) On June 10, 2022, a fire was set to Gresham Pregnancy 
        Resource Center in Gresham, Oregon.
            (8) In June 2022, graffiti saying, ``Jane's Revenge'' was 
        found on the walls of Options360 Women's Clinic in Vancouver, 
        Washington.
            (9) On June 2, 2022, vandalism occurred at Community 
        Pregnancy Center in Anchorage, Alaska.
            (10) On May 3, 2022, Sacred Heart of Mary Parish in 
        Boulder, Colorado, was attacked with graffiti and windows were 
        smashed.
            (11) On May 7, 2022, St. John XXIII Parish in Fort Collins, 
        Colorado, was attacked with graffiti and windows were smashed.
            (12) On the weekend of May 7, 2022, Woman to Woman Resource 
        Center and Loreto House in Denton, Texas, were vandalized and 
        graffitied.
            (13) On May 3, 2022, Trotter House, a pregnancy center in 
        Austin, Texas, was attacked and vandalized.
            (14) In May 2022, Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Houston, 
        Texas, was graffitied.
            (15) In May 2022, South Broward Pregnancy Center in 
        Hollywood, Florida, was sprayed with graffiti including, 
        ``Janes revenge'' with an anarchist symbol.
            (16) In June 2022, Mountain Area Pregnancy Services in 
        Asheville, North Carolina, had its windows smashed in with 
        graffiti spray-painted on the walls.
            (17) In June 2022, CompassCare, a pregnancy center in 
        Amherst, New York, sustained major fire damage, broken windows, 
        and graffiti saying, ``Jane was here''.
            (18) On June 11, 2022, Hope Pregnancy Center in 
        Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sustained smashed glass doors and 
        windows and vandalism.
            (19) On June 3, 2022, Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center in 
        Washington, DC, was vandalized with graffiti saying, ``Jane 
        says revenge''.
            (20) In May 2022, a far-left extremist damaged and urinated 
        on the office of Concerned Women for America in Alexandria, 
        Virginia.
            (21) On May 7, 2022, First Care Women's Health in Manassas, 
        Virginia, was vandalized with spray paint.

SEC. 3. DESIGNATION.

    The conduct of members of the groups ``Jane's Revenge'' and ``Ruth 
Sent Us'' described in section 2 is deemed to be domestic terrorism (as 
such term is defined in section 2331 of title 18, United States Code).
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