Security Footage Shows FBI Agents Showing Up to House of Pro-Life Activist’s Mother Unannounced

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Two FBI agents showed up at the home of a pro-life activist in Woodbridge, Virginia, according to Daily Signal reporter Mary Margaret Olohan.

The visitors were captured on a doorbell video camera and identified themselves as FBI agents Ashley Roberts and Kathleen Brown.

“We just need to speak with her regarding some information that was sent in to us,” Roberts said in the clip. “She’s not in any trouble.”

“We just have information that we need to ask her about,” the agents added.

FBI agents wanted to speak with pro-life leader Elise Ketch, who is a member of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising group. Ketch says he has “no idea what information the FBI was sent.”

Ketch was arrested in March during an abortion protest after five dead babies were found in a medical waste bin.

Ketch’s mother asked to take photos of the agents’ badges, but this wasn’t allowed. Ketch says this was an “act of intimidation” by the FBI.

“We would tell you all the information because, like I said, she’s not in any trouble, but just out of respect for her, we’d like to speak with her first and then, if she feels like talking to you, which I’m sure she will because it’s nothing,” Roberts said.

During a phone call, Ketch’s mother says, “I have two FBI agents at the front door.”

“FBI agents?” Ketch said in response.

“Yes,” her mother said.

“Mom, don’t tell them anything,” Ketch said.

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“My colleague at Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, Lauren Handy, is indicted under the FACE Act and is being prosecuted by the federal government,” she said, referring to the law that bans protests at abortion clinics that are ruled to prevent access to abortions. “It’s plausible that these FBI agents aimed to collect information from me to help build their case against her.

“While they reassured my mother that I was not in trouble, it’s also possible that they see me as a threat due to my pro-life activism and intended to investigate me.”

Ketch said she was unaware of any case involving her.

“Yet, to my knowledge, they never attempted to follow up with me or my attorney, so I believe the FBI’s true motive behind their visit to my parents’ home was to intimidate me and my team,” she said, adding, “I refuse to back down.”

“This weaponization of our government institutions protects the abortion industrial complex, and it reinforces that we must disrupt these unjust power structures,” Ketch said.

“The 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’m willing to risk my own freedom and sacrifice my rights in order to secure theirs,” she said.