Faith Under Fire: Feds Form Task Force to Tackle Anti-Christian Bias

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Attorney General Pamela Bondi with members of the Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias Task Force at the U.S. Department of Justice

In April, U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi hosted the inaugural meeting of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the federal government.

President Trump established the task force earlier this year via executive order. The task force’s purpose is to “protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the anti-Christian weaponization of government.”

In recent years news outlets and congressional testimony have alleged that government policies and departments have been weaponized against conservative and Christian organizations.

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released reports last year that found:

  • After the events of January 6, 2021, federal law enforcement officials from the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the FBI initiated multiple discussions with financial institutions to discuss ways financial institutions could share customer information with federal law enforcement outside of normal legal processes.
  • Law enforcement and private institutions shared intelligence through a web portal run by the Domestic Security Alliance Council — a partnership led by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
  • The U.S. Treasury Department gave banks and other financial institutions guiding “typologies” — patterns that could be used to identify suspicious people or activities — including search terms and patterns like “TRUMP” and “MAGA”, and encouraged financial institutions to comb through transactions for terms like, “Bass Pro Shops,” “Cabela’s,” and “Dick’s Sporting Goods” when looking for “Homegrown Violent Extremism.”
  • “Americans doing nothing other than shopping or exercising their Second Amendment rights were being tracked by financial institutions and federal law enforcement.”

Last year, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a letter to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee saying the Biden administration “pressured” his teams to censor content related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We have written before about how in 2021, Facebook disabled Family Council’s advertising account with virtually no notice or explanation, and our credit card processor abruptly terminated our account after designating us as “high risk.” In both cases, we were left to wonder if our conservative principles played a role in the cancellations.

We applaud the federal government for taking steps to prevent anti-Christian bias in the federal government. No one should face discrimination for their faith.

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Family Council Joins Letter Urging President Trump to Restrict Abortion Drugs

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Last week Family Council joined a letter with more than 50 other state and national pro-life leaders urging President Trump to place better safeguards on abortion drugs like the RU-486 regimen that uses mifepristone and misoprostol.

A recent study by the experts at the Ethics and Public Policy Center shows RU-486 is at least 22 times more dangerous than U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling indicates.

The study — which relied on all-payer insurance claims data from 2017 to 2023 — found nearly one in nine women experienced serious health complications from abortion drugs. Women who took the abortion drugs experienced sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, and other life-threatening complications.

With such serious complications, it’s clear that abortion drugs simply should not be for sale in America. That is why Family Council joined the letter last Tuesday urging the president to consider stronger policies against RU-486.

The letter reads in part,

Many states have laws protecting against mifepristone not only because it kills an unborn child, but also because of the grave risk it poses to women.

The FDA label for mifepristone states fewer than 0.5 percent of women experience serious adverse reactions from mifepristone. However, data released April 28, 2025 examines 865,727 prescribed mifepristone abortions from 2017 to 2023 and demonstrates that 10.93 percent of women—22 times higher than the FDA reported 0.5 percent—experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion. The risk from mifepristone could jeopardize a mother’s life. . . .

States must be empowered to enforce pro-life laws, all the original safety protocols on mifepristone must be restored, and the FDA must investigate mifepristone, reconsidering its approval altogether. The lives of women and unborn children and the rights of states depend upon it.

Over the years, Arkansas’ state legislators have enacted excellent laws prohibiting abortion and preventing abortion drugs from being delivered by mail in Arkansas. But the FDA and the federal government have taken steps that threaten to undermine these good, pro-life laws, and pro-abortion states are protecting abortionists who mail abortion drugs into Arkansas.

Abortion drugs don’t just kill unborn children. They also harm women. That’s simply one more reason why our country needs to protect everyone from these dangerous drugs.

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Abortion Pill 22 Times More Dangerous Than FDA Claims: New Study

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A new study shows the RU-486 abortion pill regimen is at least 22 times more dangerous than U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling indicates.

The study raises serious concerns about the harm that abortion drugs cause.

Researchers from the Ethics and Public Policy Center reviewed insurance claim data from 865,727 RU-486 prescriptions as part of the “largest-known study” on abortion pill complications.

Their data found that from 2017 to 2023, nearly 11% of women who used abortion drugs experienced sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion. That is significantly higher than the FDA’s figure claiming “less than 0.5 percent” experienced complications in clinical trials for the drug regimen.

The study concluded:

  • The FDA should immediately reinstate its earlier, stronger patient safety protocols to ensure physician responsibility for women who take mifepristone under their care, as well as mandate full reporting of its side effects.
  • The FDA should further investigate the harm mifepristone causes to women and, based on objective safety criteria, reconsider its approval altogether.

We have written repeatedly about the dangers of abortion drugs like RU-486.

Last year, Family Council joined a pro-life amicus brief by more than 30 other state and national groups as part of two lawsuits over the FDA’s decision to approve the abortion drug mifepristone, also known as RU-486, and to eliminate safety protocols and standards for the drug.

Among other things, the amicus brief noted:

  • The FDA also removed safety standards requiring a woman to be assessed in-person by a doctor before receiving RU-486.
  • The FDA knew about the significant negative health consequences of mifepristone — or RU-486 — before approving it in 2000.
  • Despite the danger, the FDA has removed safety requirements designed to protect women and weakened the reporting requirements for adverse events caused by RU-486.

Abortion-inducing drugs are dangerous. Official reports from the Arkansas Department of Health reveal that between 2020 and 2022 at least 1 in 50 women who took abortion drugs in Arkansas experienced complications.

Over the years, Arkansas’ state legislators have enacted various laws prohibiting abortion and preventing abortion drugs from being delivered by mail in Arkansas. But the FDA and the federal government have taken steps that threaten to undermine these good, pro-life laws.

This new data from the Ethics and Public Policy Center once again shows abortion drugs not only kill unborn children but also harm women. That’s simply one more reason why our state needs to protect people from these dangerous drugs.

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