Pro-Life activist Mark Houck wins 7-figure settlement against Biden DOJ

A pro-life activist has received a seven-figure settlement nearly four years after an early morning FBI raid on his home generated outrage and concern about the federal government’s treatment of pro-life advocates outside abortion clinics.

In a statement published Thursday, the pro-life advocacy group 40 Days for Life Institute of Law & Justice announced that pro-life activist Mark Houck won a settlement of over $1 million nearly four years after the early morning FBI raid on his home generated outrage. Houck, a devout Catholic father of seven, was charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act by the Biden administration in 2022.

The FACE Act subjects anyone who “intentionally injures, intimidates, or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person” who provides or assists in the provision of abortions to federal charges. The charges against Houck stemmed from an incident that took place as Houck and his son prayed outside an abortion clinic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in October 2021.

While the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that Houck “twice assaulted a man because he was a volunteer reproductive health care clinic escort,” requiring the escort to receive “medical attention,” a fundraiser set up to pay for Houck’s legal expenses told a different story: “Last year, Mark and his son were praying in front of the PP at 12th and Locust. When one of the escorts began harassing Mark’s son they walked down the street away from the entrance to the building. When one of the escorts began harassing Mark’s son they walked down the street away from the entrance to the building. The escort followed them, and when he continued yelling at Mark’s son, Mark pushed him away.”

While a jury acquitted Houck in early 2023, Houck and his wife filed a lawsuit later that year alleging that the DOJ engaged in malicious and retaliatory prosecution, abuse of process, false arrest and assault.

In a video message last Thursday, 40 Days for Life CEO Shawn Carney described the settlement as “a bigger victory for the pro-life movement at large” as well as “a huge victory for free speech” and “a huge victory for all Americans who want our right to speak our minds peacefully in a law-abiding way without fear of our own government.”

Carney maintained that the charges against Houck came as the pro-life movement and 40 Days for Life, in particular, received “so much persecution from the DOJ under Biden” and expressed gratitude that “President Trump has corrected that.”

“It has been absolutely night and day. Under Biden, at one point, we were getting one to two inquiries from the FBI per week at different 40 Days for Life locations,” he added.

News of Houck’s settlement comes as MS NOW has reported that the DOJ is scheduled to release a report concluding that the Biden administration “shattered the public’s trust by weaponizing the FACE Act to advance a pro-abortion agenda.”

In an interview with The Christian Post, pro-life activists Terrisa Bukovinac and Randall Terry identified DOJ prosecutor Sanjay Patel as a key figure in the targeting of pro-life activists under the Biden administration.

Terry named Patel as the DOJ official responsible for orchestrating the raid on Houck’s home. The Houck raid sparked calls from Bukovinac, Terry and others to impeach then-U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and repeal the FACE Act. Terry has insisted, both four years ago and today, that the law “broke the back” of the pro-life movement by subjecting those who engage in abortion clinic blockades to federal charges rather than local trespass charges. “It was always designed to isolate people of faith who wanted to defend the unborn,” Terry told CP in an earlier interview.

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Sen. Ted Cruz asks for autopsy on remains of 5 unborn babies found in home near Capitol

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has sent a letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III called on Washington, D.C. authorities to preserve the remains of five unborn [and possibly born] infants that have been found by police in a home several blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

Cruz suggested the infants  "may have been murdered or aborted in violation of federal law," and he wants the evidence preserved for a potential criminal investigation and congressional oversight. Being that Bowser is a Democrat and supports the killing of infants in the womb, it is unlikely she will comply with Senator Cruz's wishes.

"It appears that the Metropolitan Police Department has assumed the cause and nature of these children’s deaths without an investigation," Cruz correctly points out in his letter. "It has recently been brought to my attention that the D.C. government may incinerate the bodies of these five children without conducting an investigation, without performing any autopsies, and without affording these children a proper, respectful burial."

Cruz sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee and actually cares about the law.

Cruz also asked the police and Bowser to "direct the D.C. Medical Examiner to conduct an autopsy of each of these five children’s bodies consistent with the type of method and detail that would be conducted in a murder investigation." Although it is still not considered to be barbaric to kill our own children before leaving the birth canal, and is some cases even after, if you have seen the photos of these children, it will leave you gasping at the horror. I swear that I cried.

The story goes like this: on March 31, five dead infants were found in a Capitol Hill home where an anti-abortion activist [aka anti baby killing activist] had been staying. Authorities at the time determined the babies were killed in accordance with D.C. law, according to Fox 5 DC.

The dead babies wee found the same day investigators are arresting anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy as part of a federal indictment claiming she and eight others attempted to block patients from entering an abortion clinic in D.C. on October 22, 2020.

Ms. Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac are members of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) and at a news conference Tuesday they said the five fetuses were among a total of 115 fetuses the group obtained from a Washington, D.C., clinic's medical waste, according to USA Today. They explained that they asked the driver of the medical waste company if they could take one of the biohazard boxes being loaded onto the truck, but the company denied the claims.

PAAU has been asking the cops to investigate the remains for evidence of federally illegal murder of the babies after at least part of their bodies emerged from the mothers. Twenty-three Senate and House Republicans along with zero Democrats, sent a similar letter urging the authorities to investigate how the children died.

"Based on evidence collected at the time of recovery and photos that have been publicly shared, all five of these children appear to have developed well past the point of viability, and likely suffered severely painful abortion procedures, though without an autopsy, it is not known how each child died," the letter states.

Whether the babies feel pain when they were killed, and undoubtedly they did, is merely part of the issue. Their right to life was snatched from them because they were an inconvenience for the mothers who seem to believe that what they don't see, doesn't exist. 

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This is why abortion mills usually don't allow mothers to see the sonograms of their child before he or she is killed. And women who "shout" their abortion, are either psychopaths or deniers that they are killing a person.

I did not show the photos because they are simply too disturbing to view. But if you are considering an abortion, or believe that you're killing a cluster of cells, you should see the photos and your mind will instantly be changed.

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