Pro-life activist Mark Houck, who was arrested in a highly publicized FBI raid and recently acquitted on charges that could have sent him to prison for 11 years, said he will look into “pressing charges” related to prosecutorial abuse.
Houck appeared on Steve Bannon’s Real America’s Voice program “The War Room” one day after a jury in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, acquitted him on Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act charges.
He said his legal counsel wants to get him and his family the opportunity to tell Congress the details of what happened.
Houck’s charges stemmed from an incident that took place as he conducted sidewalk counseling alongside his then 12-year-old son at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia on Oct. 13, 2021.
He said, “We were praying our rosary without incident for the first 45 minutes before there was an opportunity to minister and counsel to a woman who came out of Planned Parenthood.”
While Houck and his son attempted to continue their “prayer vigil,” the abortion clinic escort positioned himself “a foot away” from Houck’s young son. He engaged in a profanity-laced conversation with the boy, prompting Houck to tell him, “you don’t have permission to talk to my son.”
The escort continued to talk to the boy, causing Houck to ask him to “go back to where you normally stand” and “leave us alone.” He acknowledged that he spoke to the escort “very forcefully.”
When the escort refused and started to talk to his son again, Houck pushed him away.
The U.S. Department of Justice to indicted Houck alleging he “twice assaulted a man because he was a volunteer reproductive health care clinic escort.”