My pro-life friend, Paul Vaughn, was arrested yesterday by the FBI in an early morning raid in front of his family. Paul is the President of Personhood Tennessee, a group that advocates for a biblical view of the inalienable dignity of the human person.
Paul is a peace loving Christian family man.
At around 7 am, four heavily armed FBI agents approached Paul's home with guns drawn and began banging on his door so hard that it made his old farmhouse shake. A father of 11, Paul's alleged crime is that he had been present at a peaceful pro-life "rescue" that took place over a year ago in March of 2021 in Mount Juliet, Tennessee.
Paul was never arrested by the local police because he was working to mediate between the pro-life rescuers and the police to ensure everyone's safety. No one was hurt and no property was damaged as a result of the pro-life "rescue."
A rescue is a peaceful form of protest that involves non-violent pro-life protesters engaging in America's long standing tradition of opposing injustice with peaceful civil disobedience. The event of March 2021 involved several pro-life activists sitting in a hallway outside of an abortion clinic in Tennessee singing hymns, reading scripture, and praying. No one was hurt and no property was damaged. For this, the FBI is charging the protesters with violations of the FACE Act which carry sentences of more than 10 years in prison and $250,000. Paul is also being charged with conspiracy to violate the FACE Act just because he was there.
Paul's arrest by the FBI with guns drawn and in front of his children coincided with Joe Biden's press conference marking 100 days since the US Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs v. Jackson case. At that press conference, President Biden announced tens of millions in grants to pro-abortion groups and issued guidelines to weaponize the department of Education against state universities in pro-life states.
Yesterday's arrest of Paul Vaughn appears to be timed to coincide with the President's press conference as he met with the "Reproductive Rights Taskforce". It shows that President Biden is using the taxpayer to fund his pro-abortion political allies while using the Justice Department and the FBI to persecute and harass his political opponents.
Paul Vaughn is the President of Personhood Tennessee a pro-life affiliate of the Personhood Alliance. He is a peaceful and principled pro-life family man and small business owner and does not deserve to be subject to the FBI's brutal intimidation.
Please help us provide funds for his legal defense and to offset the costs to his family of his arrest.
Thank you for helping Paul bear the costs of standing up for the voiceless.
God bless you,
Gualberto Garcia Jones, Esq.
General Counsel of the Personhood Alliance
