Pro-Life Dad Raided By Biden’s FBI Is On Trial This Week

The Biden administration’s targeting of pro-lifers will be on full display this week with the Department of Justice’s prosecution of sidewalk counselor Mark Houck beginning on Tuesday. 

Houck’s case first received national attention when upwards of 20 FBI agents swarmed his rural Pennsylvania home in September of 2022 to arrest him on charges that he had violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or “FACE,” Act. The FBI executed the unnecessary SWAT-like raid — reportedly complete with ballistic shields, a battering ram, and multiple agents aiming long guns at Houck — while his wife and seven children watched in horror.

It was totally unnecessary because prosecutors in such cases usually issue a summons for Houck to appear, rather than executing an arrest warrant. In fact, Houck’s attorney informed the prosecutor that he would accept a summons on Houck’s behalf. 

Here’s what you need to know about the government’s specious criminal case against Houck. 

The Charges

The federal indictment Houck was charged with two felonies under FACE. Houck was taken into FBI custody. Anyone who:

By force, threat, or physical obstruction, injures, intimidates, interferes with, or attempts to interfere with, any person because such person is or was, or to intimidate any other person or class of persons from, obtaining, or providing reproductive healthcare services. 

In response to a 1993 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Congress passed the FACE Act. ruling It was ruled that abortion facilities cannot sue pro-life protesters for obstructing access to abortion facilities. This is because the federal statute prohibits conspiracies that interfere with civil rights. The FACE Act was used against protestors and sidewalk counselors who were standing outside abortion facilities since its passage.  

However, the Clinton Department of Justice was reportedly only able to prosecute about 10 people per calendar year. The Bush DOJ, on the other hand, prosecuted an average of just two people per calendar year. As of May 20,22, there were only 101 prosecutions Under the FACE Act, some were arrested by the Biden administration 26 pro-lifers Allegations of violations of the FACE Act within 2022, including one case against Houck. 

The Biden administration’s criminal case against Houck stems from a single incident on Oct. 13, 2021, when Houck was involved in a physical and verbal altercation with Bruce Love — a “volunteer patient escort” B.L. is the shortened form. throughout the indictment — outside the Planned Parenthood Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center in Philadelphia “PPC.” Houck, according to the indictment was a “protestor” Love was also familiar with Love outside of Planned Parenthood. 

Houck was the first indictment count “shoved B.L. to the ground as B.L. attempted to escort two PPC patients,” in violation of FACE Act. The second count alleged that Houck “verbally confronted B.L. Houck “verbally confronted B.L. B.L.