Notorious Anti-Abortion Activist Sues DOJ For $4.35M, Claims Arrest At Clinic Protest Caused Wife’s Infertility

November 8, 2023 Christianists, Republicans

The Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal reports:

Pro-life activist Mark Houck and his wife, Ryan-Marie Houck, are suing the federal Department of Justice over the DOJ’s treatment of their family, accusing the DOJ of a “faulty” investigation led to an excessively forceful arrest and a “malicious and retaliatory prosecution” that has severely impacted their entire family.

Houck is a Catholic father of seven who was arrested and charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Abortion Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act by President Joe Biden’s administration. A jury found him not guilty of the federal charges in January, and he announced in August that he is running for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District.

Most tragically of all, her complaint says, Ryan-Marie and Mark Houck have lost three babies through miscarriages “due to the stress of the FBI’s conduct and resulting prosecution.” In addition to the “trauma, paranoia, and anxiety she has suffered,” the suit says, “she now carries the grief of losing three children and the pain of infertility.”

Read the full article. Together, the Houcks are seeking $4.35 million for “malicious prosecution, retaliatory prosecution, false arrest, abuse of process, and assault.”

My August 2023 report on Mark Houck’s bid for the US House in Pennsylvania is here. House is challenging incumbent GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.

In January 2023, Houck was found not guilty of assaulting a Planned Parenthood clinic escort. His case became a cause célèbre for hate groups, GOP senators, and Franklin Graham.

During his trial, he was represented by the Catholic anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Thomas More Society. In May 2023, House Republicans had him testify at a hearing about the supposed weaponization of the FBI against Christians.

Houck first appeared on JMG in 2012 when he claimed that “an increase in porn leads to an increase in sexual activity outside of marriage, which leads to an increase in ‘unwanted’ pregnancies, which leads to an increase in abortion.”

His money beg on the Christian crowdfunding site favored by white supremacists and Capitol rioters has raised $412,000 at this writing.

Houck announced his House bid at Church Militant, the far-right Catholic site founded by allegedly ex-gay homocon Michael “Comically Bewigged” Voris and he was interviewed that day by Steven Bannon.



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