{"id":1821849,"date":"2023-01-24T10:34:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1821849"},"modified":"2023-01-24T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:35:46","slug":"pro-life-dad-raided-by-bidens-fbi-is-on-trial-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-life-dad-raided-by-bidens-fbi-is-on-trial-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Life Dad Raided By Biden\u2019s FBI Is On Trial This Week"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fpro-life-dad-raided-by-bidens-fbi-is-on-trial-this-week%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=1821849&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-->\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s targeting of pro-lifers will be on full display this week with the Department of Justice\u2019s prosecution of sidewalk counselor Mark Houck beginning on Tuesday.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Houck\u2019s 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 \u201cFACE,\u201d Act. The FBI executed the unnecessary SWAT-like raid \u2014 reportedly complete with ballistic shields, a battering ram, and multiple agents aiming long guns at Houck \u2014 while his wife and seven children watched in horror. <\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s attorney informed the prosecutor that he would accept a summons on Houck\u2019s behalf.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know about the government\u2019s specious criminal case against Houck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Charges<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The federal <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasmoresociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Indictment-9-20-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indictment<\/a> Houck was charged with two felonies under FACE. Houck was taken into FBI custody.\u00a0Anyone who:<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response to a 1993 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Congress passed the FACE Act. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1991\/90-985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruling<\/a> 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.\u00a0The FACE Act was used against protestors and sidewalk counselors who were standing outside abortion facilities since its passage.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0As of May 20,22, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/news\/2022\/05\/09\/abortions-last-stand-post-roe-future-already-happening-florida\/9680312002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">only 101 prosecutions<\/a> Under the FACE Act, some were arrested by the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasmoresociety.org\/pro-life-family-man-arrested-in-raid-by-armed-fbi-seeks-dismissal-of-federal-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">26 pro-lifers<\/a> Allegations of violations of the FACE Act within 2022, including one case against Houck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s 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 \u2014 a \u201cvolunteer patient escort\u201d B.L. is the shortened form. throughout the indictment \u2014 outside the Planned Parenthood Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center in Philadelphia \u201cPPC.\u201d\u00a0Houck, according to the indictment was a \u201cprotestor\u201d Love was also familiar with Love outside of Planned Parenthood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Houck was the first indictment count \u201cshoved B.L. to the ground as B.L. attempted to escort two PPC patients,\u201d in violation of FACE Act. The second count alleged that Houck \u201cverbally confronted B.L. Houck &#8220;verbally confronted B.L. B.L.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even an acquittal is still a victory for the Biden administration, which successfully chilled pro-lifers by making an example out of Houck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":1821852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3706,13346,5591,8347,16237,4853,3912],"class_list":["post-1821849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-bidens","tag-dad","tag-fbi","tag-pro-life","tag-raided","tag-trial","tag-week"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1821852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}