A Pennsylvania jury acquitted a pro-life activist accused of assaulting a Planned Parenthood escort in 2021
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, celebrated the news of Houck's acquittal with a tweet. Shortly after Houck's arrest last fall, his attorney Peter Breenthat his client's arrest was an"outrageous abuse of power" from the Department of Justice that was intended to intimidate pro-life Americans.
"The message from the Biden Department of Justice is pure intimidation against pro-life people and people of faith," said Breen, senior counsel of the Thomas More Society.
Bill Devlin, a pastor who has ministered with Houck for more than 20 years, told The Christian Post last year that appeared federal prosecutors were"stretching the statute of the FACE Act." Mark Houck seen with his children. Houck was arrested on Friday by the FBI stemming from a reported altercation with a man outside of a Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia."We are deep brothers in the faith, and I’ve come alongside to undergird and support him because it’s the presumption of innocent until the government can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mark Houck violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act," Devlin told the outlet.
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