{"id":1933653,"date":"2023-05-19T00:29:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-pro-lifers-mom-gets-a-home-visit-from-fbi-karens\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T00:32:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:32:25","slug":"progressive-pro-lifers-mom-gets-a-home-visit-from-fbi-karens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-pro-lifers-mom-gets-a-home-visit-from-fbi-karens\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI visits home of progressive pro-life activist&#8217;s mother due to Karens."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprogressive-pro-lifers-mom-gets-a-home-visit-from-fbi-karens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1933653&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>FBI Agents Visit Pro-Life Activist Elise Ketch&#8217;s Mother<\/h2>\n<h3>Two FBI agents, Ashley Roberts and Kathleen Brown, visited the mother of pro-life activist Elise Ketch last month. <\/h3>\n<p>In a conversation publicized by The Daily Signal, the agents asked Tracy if they could talk to Elise. \u201cWe just need to speak with [Elise] regarding some information that was sent to us,\u201d Roberts told Tracy. The agents asked for Elise\u2019s address or phone number after learning she no longer lives at her mother\u2019s house. \u201cShe\u2019s not in any trouble,\u201d Roberts said, adding that she couldn\u2019t tell Tracy what their visit was about but that she shouldn\u2019t worry because \u201cit\u2019s nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Tracy asked to take pictures of their badges, Roberts stated, \u201cUnfortunately, we\u2019re not allowed to have anyone take our pictures.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Pro-Life Activist Elise Ketch<\/h3>\n<p>Since December 2022, 26-year-old Elise has been an active member of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), a pro-life organization that espouses left-wing views on everything other than life. The group is pro-Black Lives Matter, pro-transgenderism, anti-capitalist, and pro-life, and their existence works to detach the right-to-life movement from party politics.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Daily Signal\u2019s Mary Margaret Olohan, Elise said she has a few ideas of what may have provoked the FBI to seek her out. \u201cMy colleague at Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, Lauren Handy, is indicted under the FACE Act and is being prosecuted by the federal government,\u201d she noted. \u201cIt\u2019s plausible that these FBI agents aimed to collect information from me to help build their case against her.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>PAAU Activism<\/h3>\n<p>PAAU activists Lauren Handy, Jonathan Darnel, and Herb Geraghty all face Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act charges from incidents that reportedly took place before they were members of PAAU.<\/p>\n<p>While the organization\u2019s protest tactics have been peaceful, they are notably different from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-pro-lifers-mom-gets-a-home-visit-from-fbi-karens\/\" title=\"FBI visits home of progressive pro-life activist's mother due to Karens.\">conventional pro-life demonstrations generally run<\/a> by conservatives. In March 2022, Elise and other PAAU activists were arrested after a nonviolent protest outside of a congressional office building. The pro-life demonstrators stood in the street waving posters with photos of \u201cThe Five.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Olohan reported, \u201cKetch has participated in PAAU\u2019s \u2018Pink Rose Rescues,\u2019 wherein activists attempt to enter an abortion facility and \u2018quietly hand out pink roses to people in the waiting room\u2019\u2014then leave upon being told that they are trespassing.\u201d Elise told Olohan the pink roses have pregnancy resource information.<\/p>\n<p>Elise has also protested outside CVS, which PAAU says has become an abortion business along with Walgreens and Rite Aid by collaborating with the abortion industry to sell abortifacient drugs.<\/p>\n<h3>Government Weaponization Against Pro-Life Activists<\/h3>\n<p>Last December, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta admitted that the DOJ has been weaponizing the FACE Act against pro-life activists in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Consequently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-had-better-pass-federal-pro-life-laws-if-they-ever-want-to-be-elected-again\/\" title=\"Republicans Had Better Pass Federal Pro-Life Laws If They Ever Want To Be Elected Again\">peaceful pro-life activists<\/a> have had their homes raided by federal agents and face lawfare, fines, and prison time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the nearly 100 attacks on pro-life organizations and churches at the hands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-elizabeth-warren-claimed-scotus-burned-legitimacy-in-roe-verdict-calls-for-adding-more-justices\/\" title=\"Sen. Elizabeth Warren Claimed SCOTUS \u2018Burned\u2019 Legitimacy In Roe Verdict, Calls For Adding More Justices\">pro-abortion domestic terrorists<\/a> in 2022 have been largely ignored by the FBI, resulting in only a handful of arrests and sparse investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most prevalent domestic threat to our country is the murder of thousands of preborn people by abortion each day. It is not terrorism to nonviolently intervene and rescue these powerless children before their slaughter. I\u2019m willing to risk my own freedom and sacrifice my rights in order to secure theirs,\u201d Elise told Olohan.<\/p>\n<p>Elise said even though she\u2019s concerned for her family\u2019s safety, she \u201crefuse[s] to back down.\u201d Terrisa Bukovinac, PAAU\u2019s founder, told Olohan she thinks \u201cthe feds are desperate to find a reason to shut us down and they\u2019re not above coming to our parents\u2019s homes to try to find what they\u2019re looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI agents Ashley Roberts and Kathleen Brown visited Tracy Ketch, mother of pro-life activist Elise Ketch, to request a conversation with Elise. 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