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Recent raids on pro-life families with young children have left attorneys and lawmakers questioning the Biden administration’s legal tactics.
WASHINGTON — Two pro-life fathers were recently arrested at their homes by FBI agents with guns drawn in front of their wives and children. One had an alleged altercation last year with an abortion facility escort he said was harassing his young son. The other father allegedly assisted a group of pro-lifers praying and singing hymns outside an abortion business more than a year ago.
Peter Breen, vice president and senior counsel at the Thomas More Society, told the Register that these incidents “point to a weaponized Department of Justice that is seeking to intimidate pro-life people and people of faith in this country,” and they “should outrage every American, no matter where they stand on abortion.”
The charges against Mark Houck, a 48-year-old Catholic father of seven, stem from an incident that took place on Oct. 13, 2021, in which a 72-year-old facility escort, Bruce Love, approached Houck and his son, who were peacefully praying about 50 feet from the center, Breen said. According to Breen, the escort made “crude references, sexual and otherwise,” to Houck’s 12-year-old son. An altercation ensued in which Houck allegedly shoved Love.
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Legal Experts Call Out Biden DOJ’s Aggressive Targeting of Pro-Life Demonstrators Following at-Home Raids
Recent raids on pro-life families with young children have left attorneys and lawmakers questioning the Biden administration’s legal tactics.
WASHINGTON — Two pro-life fathers were recently arrested at their homes by FBI agents with guns drawn in front of their wives and children. One had an alleged altercation last year with an abortion facility escort he said was harassing his young son. The other father allegedly assisted a group of pro-lifers praying and singing hymns outside an abortion business more than a year ago.
Peter Breen, vice president and senior counsel at the Thomas More Society, told the Register that these incidents “point to a weaponized Department of Justice that is seeking to intimidate pro-life people and people of faith in this country,” and they “should outrage every American, no matter where they stand on abortion.”
The charges against Mark Houck, a 48-year-old Catholic father of seven, stem from an incident that took place on Oct. 13, 2021, in which a 72-year-old facility escort, Bruce Love, approached Houck and his son, who were peacefully praying about 50 feet from the center, Breen said. According to Breen, the escort made “crude references, sexual and otherwise,” to Houck’s 12-year-old son. An altercation ensued in which Houck allegedly shoved Love.
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Legal Experts Call Out Biden DOJ’s Aggressive Targeting of Pro-Life Demonstrators Following at-Home Raids
