The director of a crisis pregnancy center in North Carolina that was vandalized in 2022 said city leaders have been silent about the crime, but local police have gone out of their way to protect the organization.
"Chemical weapons have wrought unthinkable horrors upon our world, and should never again be developed or deployed—period. That’s the commitment the world made when the Chemical Weapons Convention created the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 1997—and it’s a commitment we must renew every day until our world is free from the threat of chemical weapons," Biden said.
The non-profit organization, led by British zoologist Peter Daszak, was at the center of the COVID-19 lab leak theory when former President Donald Trump suspended the grant in April 2020.
Since the center's release, fears have emerged that the group will merely serve as a censorship organization against political discourse that runs contrary to the government's interests.
