{"id":1768678,"date":"2022-12-09T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T12:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768678"},"modified":"2022-12-09T07:32:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T12:32:41","slug":"is-the-abortion-escort-who-went-after-pro-lifer-mark-houck-the-real-face-act-violator-court-filing-suggests-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-abortion-escort-who-went-after-pro-lifer-mark-houck-the-real-face-act-violator-court-filing-suggests-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Abortion Escort Who Went After Pro-Lifer Mark Houck The Real FACE Act Violator? Court Filing Suggests Yes"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fis-the-abortion-escort-who-went-after-pro-lifer-mark-houck-the-real-face-act-violator-court-filing-suggests-yes%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=1768678&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--><p>Some 20 law enforcement officers, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/04\/with-new-documents-the-biden-administrations-targeting-of-a-pro-life-dad-just-got-crazier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">including<\/a> many with ballistic shields, long guns, and a battering ram, swarmed outside the home of Mark Houck in late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/pro-life-activist-arrested-after-swat-team-raids-home-with-guns-drawn-in-front-of-screaming-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">September 2022<\/a> to arrest, at gunpoint, the father of seven on an indictment charging him with violating the Federal Access to Clinic Entrances or \u201cFACE\u201d Act. But it was the purported escort for Planned Parenthood whom Houck allegedly pushed, and not Houck, who violated the FACE Act, according to a recent court filing. And the Biden administration\u2019s selective use of the FACE Act to prosecute pro-lifers compels the dismissal of the charges against Houck, his attorneys <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasmoresociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221205HouckUS-D-Motion-to-Dismiss.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argued<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 20, 2022, the Department of Justice charged Houck in a two-count federal indictment with alleged violations of the FACE Act related to two encounters Houck had with Bruce Love. First, according to the indictment, on Oct. 13, 2021, Houck shoved Love to the ground as the latter \u201cattempted to escort two [Planned Parenthood patients.]\u201d (The indictment <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/04\/with-new-documents-the-biden-administrations-targeting-of-a-pro-life-dad-just-got-crazier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">referred<\/a> to Love as \u201cB.L.\u201d throughout, but his name appears in a search of the Philadelphia court records.) The second count alleged that on Oct. 13, 2021, Houck \u201cverbally confronted\u201d B.L. and then \u201cforcefully shoved B.L. to the ground in front of the [Planned Parenthood facility], causing injuries to B.L. that required medical attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, as I previously reported, these allegations conflicted with the private criminal complaint Love filed against Houck shortly after the encounter. That criminal complaint, obtained in October by The Federalist, revealed that Love described only one incident with Houck and made no mention of attempting to escort Planned Parenthood clients. According to his state criminal complaint, Houck \u201cwas standing on the corner and [Love] was standing a few feet away from [Houck] waiting for clients. [Houck] stated to [Love] to stay away from him and that he will push [Love] into the street. As [Love] was walking away from [Houck], [Love] states [Houck] pushed [Love] causing him to fall to the ground.\u201d The complaint then notes that Love notified the police and sought medical treatment a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>The state criminal complaint was later dismissed, only to have the Biden administration obtain a federal FACE Act indictment in October, with charges still pending in a Philadelphia federal court.<\/p>\n<p>But now, Houck seeks dismissal of the federal charges. And in a <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasmoresociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221205HouckUS-D-Motion-to-Dismiss.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">motion to dismiss<\/a> filed earlier this week, attorneys for the pro-life father explain the disparity between Love\u2019s state criminal complaint and the federal indictment and in doing so expose the Department of Justice\u2019s duplicity.<\/p>\n<p> Facts of the Case <\/p>\n<p>Count one of the indictment, the motion to dismiss notes, alleges Houck \u201cshoved\u201d Love as Love \u201cattempted to escort two [Planned Parenthood] patients.\u201d \u201cBut the Indictment blatantly omits that, indisputably, any physical contact occurred outside a pregnancy resource center <em>across the street <\/em>from the abortion facility approximately 100 feet away, and only once Mr. Love had overtaken and obstructed Mr. Houck,\u201d the motion to dismiss continues. 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